Unity WebGL can display 3D content because it uses a web standard called WebGL.I’m sure we all figured that out by the platform build name. It is basically a web version of an open-spec and mature 3D graphics API called OpenGL. WebGL works by drawing 3D content on to an HTML5 canvas element in the …
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Edit (03/05/2022): My friend coerced me to replay the game the other day. It appears past wrongs have corrected themselves, and there is now a bordered window mode in the game. I was playing the game Raft with a few friends a couple of years ago. It was fine, but I found myself wanting to …
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TL;DR When debugging Unity WebGL apps, use the web browser’s developer tools. For Chrome browsers press the F12 key – for other browsers see below in the browser section. Unity Debug.Log*() calls redirect to the browser’s dev tools console. With that being said, if you have the spare time and want a more elaborate deep-dive …
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I’ve previously posted about pausing an application in Unity. What if we want to pause it completely? Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find an official way – and the fact that there’s a pause function that doesn’t actually pause (it throttles) leads me to assume there might not actually be an official way to …
Sometimes, you may find that a WebGL app is taking up a lot of processing. While you’re browser may not show you exactly how much processing it’s talking, you’ll notice in the task manager that the process is taking up a lot more of the processor’s utilization when looking at your site and web app …
When you build a WebGL app from Unity and use the test HTML sample code to embed the page, it starts immediately. If you want your app for an event before launching the app, here’s an example of hosting the app with a stand-in placeholder image – where the user must click the image before …
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