Using www form to Browse for picture file, replaces te

Unity Engine
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Hi

I have searched the forums for an answer to this but found a few conflicting results so I will be more specific…

Something we used in TurnTool a fair bit was the ability to use a standard html form with a file browser field, when the user clicked the browse button and selected a file (e.g. a TGA image) we could instantly (no uploading) replace a texture in the 3D view with that image including alpha.

Is that possible in unity using the www class?

Thanks for any help.

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the webplayer can not access the local file system

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So it doesn’t matter if we use vanilla JavaScript to get a file path to a local image, the web player can’t use it?

:cry:

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right, you can only load data from the web, not from the local file system.

The webplayer has all possibilities to access local files disabled for security reasons

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Well I hope that Unity can add it in.

Flash 10 supports local file access and they are quite big on security too :slight_smile:

You can for example allow end users to preview and place their local designs on 3D models before sending (which could be a large high res file) to the server.