How to display a web browser in game...

Hi all,

Is there a way to display a web browser during gameplay (PC standalone build, not web player) (Note that this is the inverse of running Unity inside a web page via the web player...)

As Unity game runtime gets DirectX 9/11 to render its window I gather setting a web browsing HWND to display on top would not work, but maybe one of these two alternatives would work?
- Create an in-game object with a dynamically-created Texture2D that gets its pixels from a background web browser window.
- Hook into directx post render and 'paint' the current image from a background web page rendered in a background window
- Build WebKit in a DLL and find a way to paint its window on top of DirectX

(While the above would render the web page in game I will of course have to send Unity mouse clicks and keyboard edits to the background web browser for it to update...)

Has such a feat ever been accomplished?

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

Single Google search, using, you know, a web browser:

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/270730/how-to-show-a-web-browser-on-unity-3d-game.html
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/27933/embed-web-browser-into-unity.html

 

Hi Cameron, thanks for that heads up... looked in the asset store for 'browser' and getting no results made me think it doesn't exist.

There turns out to be a fantastic implementation of WebKit running brilliantly inside Unity games made by Mythos Labs here. Don't know why such a well done project can't be found on the Asset Store...

uWebKit appears very well done and more than exceeds what I need to do in-game... Check it out!

 

Your response I find inappropriate even 4 years on, I think you can guess what word comes to mine…

I did a google search and for this waste of time comment from you ...

 

Why not just make a form in VS to be your game launcher/patch-updater. Make it to launch the game, and updating it from a web site. A lot of games use a web site to patch their games.

 

Did you find the answer?? I am on the same situtation, i do not understand how this simple thing can be so difficult

 

I am also interested, are there any solutions that work in the UI so I can add a simple web view to a VR game?

 

here is One and it Still Works Pretty Well - https://github.com/tunerok/unity_browser