Unity Web Player through dropbox link?

Unity Engine
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Hi, so I need help with something.
I’ve seen people link their games through a dropbox address and I want to do that with my game.

Looking around, but I’m finding no proper and easy answers as of yet. Please, help.

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Put the webplayer folder in your db public folder.

Right click the html doc in that folder, go to Dropbox → Copy public link.

Paste link in web-browser… and enjoy.

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Thanks. Seem to be working.

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This doesn’t seem to work anymore, I tried this on my Mac with Dropbox and when you go to the public link it just shows you the HTML in a dropbox viewer.

Is there something else that has to be done?

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You do have the .unity3d file in the same location as the html file right?

Thanks,
Chris

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you have to place your .unity3d file along with the exported html in the public folder of dropbox

it does work , i even used to host a simple website on dropbox , anything that is just client side works only server side stuff doesnt
it just has to be in the public folder

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its not work…

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you need to upload the html and the unity3d file, not the desktops ‘background and other color’ configuration file (desktop.ini)

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what about this?

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You need to put your Webplayer.html and Webplayer.unity3d-file in this location, not your desktop.ini and the npUnity3D-thing.

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i install the player,the installer put the files in this location:C:\Documents and Settings\ user name\Local Settings\Application Data\Unity.inside this ,there are 2 folders,temp and web player.i search inside but i cant find that you ask.where else i can look to?

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you were doing it ok, but public dropbox folders are no longer public since several months ago, to get a public ,public folder you need to look for it here:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/16/en

I had the same problem, the folder sould show the earth inside.

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Hi,

I am also trying to add a webplayer export to Dropbox as a friend of mine suggested this is a good way to let others test your stuff.
I followed the above link to create a ‘Public’ folder (with the earth Icon) but when I give Chrome the url the ‘game’ does not start.
The browser asks me to install Unity Web Player but I already have that installed and it is working fine when the files are on disk.

Anyone has any luck with this?

Cheers
Fred

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and for me the page shows up but it says Unity 3D File Not Found

EDIT: Oh, never mind, I just had to change the HTML to add the new DropBox link.

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Guys, I have the same problem. I have read a few topics and instructions, but it doesn’t work.
I uploaded my html and unity3d files to DropBox, updated link to the game in the html file (tried both https and http, file name with and without spaces). Then I try to open my file in different browsers (where I logged on and not logged on) - it doesn’t work. I also tried not to insert the link to the unity3d file in the html file, just used it’s name - the same result.

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No ideas? Does anybody use DropBox for their Unity games? How do you install them? Is there a really workable instruction?

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What I do is exactly the same as everybody:

  • Create a public folder
  • Upload to that folder the .html and the .unity3D
  • Get the public url of the HTML

I have done all this steps directly from the Dropbox web

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But it’s impossible now to make a public folder. It’s only possible to create a folder and make it public for some particular users, using their mails…
How do you create a public folder?

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FYI you also have to remove the “s” in “https://” so that it reads only “http://” by default it copies the public link as a secure link and never works right for the webplayer.

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It doesn’t help me. What I did:

  1. Created a folder.
  2. Made it public (buy sharing access to my mail only, because now it’s impossible to share it to everybody in the DropBox).
  3. Uploaded my .html and .unity3d files to this folder. The .html file contains a line:

u.initPlugin(jQuery(“#unityPlayer”)[0], “Web.unity3d”);
And the .unity3d lays in the same folder.

  1. Then I copy the link to the .html file, remove ‘s’ from the ‘https’ and try to open it in another browser, where I’m not logged in the DropBox. Then I’m supposed just to download the file, nothing else.

I expect a bit different behavior - I open the link and Unity Web Player starts to load the file and play the game. But I can’t do that.
I’ve also tried to change the line above and specify a full path to the .unity3d file - I have an error. So after I upload my files to the DropBox folder, I can’t play the game at all…