Unity and Flash, the best of both worlds! - Unite presentation slides

Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds!

Who is Paul Tondeur?
Author of Papervision3D Essentials
Developer
Flash platform
Red5
Unity
PHP
Active participant of Flash and Unity community
Passionate about new technologies
Business partner of dr. Kominski
Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Introduction

Who is dr. Kominski?
Polish professor
Laboratory based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Creates, invents, and designs state of the art web concepts
Realtime 3D
Multiplayer
‘ On location’ streaming video
2D and 3D animation
Community building

Where I will talk about
Getting started
Integrating Flash and Unity
Multiplayer Flash and Unity
Tips and tricks

First thoughts on Unity Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco How to have auto completion? How to use SVN? Boo? C#? JavaScript? Which language to use? Which tools to use? How to do multiplayer? Is there a book? How many polygons can a render contain? Where to find tutorials? Loading models at runtime? How does a Mac work? How to communicate with Flash

Things I liked
Fluent integration with external modeling tools
Ease of use for modelers
Cross platform and cross browser
Helpful community and Unity staff
License costs
Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Getting started

Things I disliked
Programming in Unitron
Creating GUI elements
New mindset: it’s not only code
Limited debugging
Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Getting started

Integrating Flash and Unity Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco

Reasons to integrate
Do things you can not do in Unity
Do things you can do better without Unity
Do things you can do with more ease than with Unity
Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Integrating Flash and Unity

Communication Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Integrating Flash and Unity

Demos Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Integrating Flash and Unity

Limitations
Most advanced object is an Array
Can’t exchange all data types

Communication with u3dobject Integrating Flash and Unity Google Code - October 2009 “ Aquiris U3dObject is a small framework created to make the integration of Unity3d applications into websites as easy as possible.” Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco

Communication with u3dobject Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Integrating Flash and Unity

u3dobject: embedding Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Integrating Flash and Unity

u3dobject: calling Flash Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Integrating Flash and Unity

u3dobject: calling Unity Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Integrating Flash and Unity

JSON Integrating Flash and Unity Wikipedia - October 2009 “ JSON, short for JavaScript Object Notation, is a lightweight computer data interchange format. It is a text-based, human-readable format for representing simple data structures and associative arrays (called objects).” Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco

JSON Example Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Integrating Flash and Unity

JSON encoding and decoding
External library for Flash: as3corelib
External library for C#: LitJSON

JSON demo Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Integrating Flash and Unity

Multiplayer Unity and Flash Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco

RTMP Multiplayer Unity and Flash Wikipedia - October 2009 “ Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Adobe Systems for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a Flash player and a server.” Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco

Reverse engineering RTMP Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Multiplayer Unity and Flash

Reverse engineering RTMP results
Headache
A library that can connect with any RTMP server
Tunneled connections (RTMPT)
Library to be open sourced soon
Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Multiplayer Unity and Flash

C# RTMP Library Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Multiplayer Unity and Flash

Demos Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Multiplayer Unity and Flash

How the tropical island works Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Multiplayer Unity and Flash

Tips and tricks Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco

Loading external images Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Tips and tricks

Parsing XML Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Tips and tricks

Posting data Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Tips and tricks

Buy “Unity Game Development Essentials” Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco Tips and tricks

Questions? Unity & Flash, the best of both worlds! Unite 2009 - San Francisco

Thanks!
Paul Tondeur
Blog: www.paultondeur.com
Dr. Kominski: www.kominski.net
E-mail: [email_address]
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paultondeur/
Twitter: PaulTondeur
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