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

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

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

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

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

Fluent integration with external modeling tools

Ease of use for modelers

Cross platform and cross browser

Helpful community and Unity staff

License costs

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

Programming in Unitron

Creating GUI elements

New mindset: it’s not only code

Limited debugging

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

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

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

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

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

Headache

A library that can connect with any RTMP server

Tunneled connections (RTMPT)

Library to be open sourced soon

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

Paul Tondeur

Blog: www.paultondeur.com

Dr. Kominski: www.kominski.net

E-mail: [email_address]

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paultondeur/

Twitter: PaulTondeur