Official New for WebGL in Unity 2022.1 beta

Great improvements and features!

Any tips on which texture compression formats should be used and when?

 

I would like to inform you that games exported with Unity 2022 (and may be 2021) can't be played on Unity Play due to a problem with the JavaScript file that loads the player. I have posted a tutorial about how to fix this problem temporary at: https://forum.unity.com/threads/patch-v2021-webgl-player-stuck-loading-fix.1238950/
Please consider applying my patch on the official codebase if possible or fixing it in any other way you find it better.

 

From the roadmap:

"However, support may not include lower-end mobile devices with less available RAM"

So what does "lower-end mobile devices with less available RAM" mean exactly? I guess this might be hard to pin down at the moment, but maybe you could give us some kind of ballpark numbers, especially for the size of the RAM.

 

Are there any progress in microphone? Especially for enable voice chat for using in WebRTC and photon server

 

Hello @anthony_b_
Great news !
Can you tell us more about what you envision for PWA ?

 

Any ETA on the document? I would really love to see that.

 

Hi there,
Whats the advantage of using progressive template?
Thanks

 

I haven't found any info about the profiling.
Will we be able to connect the Unity editor to a standalone build in the browser?

We can take the profiler from Firefox, but it doesn't give info about memory (snapshots and other cool features that gives Unity's Memory profiler).

E.g., in a big project, we have a massive memory leak, and this behavior can't be reproduced in the Editor, so we have to find out running in a browser (in the best case in release mode).
(I know about such flags for Emscripten: "--profiling-funcs", "--memoryprofiler")

 

Hello everyone. We are trying to run our not too complicated scene which works fine on editor/standalone builds 2022.1.3f1 and 2022.1.4f1 URP. But on WebGL the materials are "pink"/missing.broken... What could I possibly look at to try to fix this?
Downgrading and trying on 2021 does not seem to be an option because the materials have to be recreated anyways.
I also notice something. When loading the project with 2021 and allowing it to rebuild, it is popping a message saying that the URP package needs to be reimported because it comes from an earlier version??? Is that possible? That 2022 is using an earlier URP package than 2021? and if so can I install a later version on 2022?

Update:
I was able to get it working on 2021.3.0f1 after recreating things from scratch but not sure I am comparing Apples to Apples since things had to be recreated.

I can see now that 2021.3.0f1 is running URP 12.1.6 and 2022.1.3f1 is running 13.1.8

Any thoughts on how to fix this issue.?

 

Ok I bit more information on this. So it's a problem with using ANY of the URP shaders. Has anyone else encountered this? Again this is only on WebGL it works fine on Editor and on Stand alone.

 

I duplicated my project and opened it with the latest 2022.1.7f but WebGL mobile inputfields still arent bringing up the keyboard for some reason.

 

Please keep WebGL a top priority

 

Awesome update. Does Substance 3.0 on webgl?

 

Exactly my case as well

 

Hello Anthony,

With 2022.2 having entered Beta status, can you share some details on what WebGL improvements we can expect?

I found the summary changelog you did for this release quite helpful.

Thank you.

 

Hi! We heavily use assetbundles on one of our project so I'm pretty interested in this.
What do you mean with "Improved"? Better first time loading time, when they are cached? Or better next loading times?

We are still trying to decide to switch to the new version (we are in production state with 2021 LTS so maybe it's too risky) but if it is worth it we would give it a try!

 

Is the "Added mobile keyboard support for WebGL to enter text in UI input fields." only for legacy UI text or also for TextMesh Pro Input text? Doesn't look like it is working in Unity 2022.1.7, testing on Safari iOS.

 

Being in the same situation, I would also like to know what has changed concerning the cache

 

Be careful on this, the cache system have a conflict issue between old and new system. Check this post for more information : https://forum.unity.com/threads/web...n-recent-unity-versions.1343537/#post-8483339

 

I know the 3.2 has been a long time in the making. Is there any ETA when it might be market as ready for production?

 

I created a new project using the Third Person (Core) template that comes in Unity Hub using Unity 2021 LTS. The input manager doesn't work at all in WebGL builds. The 3rd person controller doesn't move the player at all.

I am just wondering if this has changed at all with Unity 2022 WebGL? If so I will move to 2022. If not I will continue to see if the 3rd person controller or input manager devs will fix it there.

 

Turns out the answer is this:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/first-person-starters-input-system-doesnt-work-on-webgl.1296837/

The one thing weird about it is the error message that comes up in the console says to go to the Tools / Starter Assets menu to fix it. That menu doesn't exist. I suspect that could be because of the error itself, but don't know.

After setting that script define value the input system works great.

Sorry to alarm anyone.

 

The "Maximum Memory Size" item has been restored in the public settings of the player settings, but is the limit still 2048? Is the limit still 2048, or does setting it to 4096 have an effect?
We are hoping that it is 4096, as some current browsers support 4096.

 

Hi there! That's a feature I was waiting for so long! Thanks for that.
I just want to report that when the application (webgl) is running in fullscren mode on mobile browser (unityInstance.SetFulscreen(1)), the keyboard isn't showing anymore.
Is it an intentional behaviour or a bug?

 

Loving the PWA template, but cache does not seem to update. Is there a way to force cache update?

 

what would be the problems of using Unity as a website builder?

I am not speaking about any fancy 3D websites, I am speaking about standard websites, without any 3D, only the UI elements of unity.


Creating UI interfaces is really easy and friendly in unity.

 

@anthony_b_ I have tried this a bit for a client, and looks promising! (Even though I look forward to an updated project Tiny with a smaller engine size) I have two questions for you that I would love to get an answer to:

I tried to find any tech demo to try out on a mobile browser, but didn't find any that actually works. Are there any deployed examples of games/tech demos out there that is running on the latest 2022.2 tech stream release, targeting mobile browsers? According to your roadmap, mobile WebGL support i still "in progress", but made some quick prototypes with 2D graphics and inputs using the PWA template output, and seems to work fine on (at least latest versions of) both Safari iOS and Android Chrome (and also Firefox).

Looking at stats, 92% of the worlds browsers would theoretically support WebGL 2 that your are building on top. So for a simple 2D game with well optimized assets and memory management, do you think that's a realistic compatibility number?

 

i hope it will be multi threading and gpu support. cos now unity is more laggy in browsers then some engines (construct. godot/ playcanvas)/ plus we cant use dots as i understand cos its based on multitreading too

upd/ i checked roadmap and was happy to see that multi treads are in 2022 allready /
but where turn it on in 2022.2.7

Released : Web: C/C++ (native only) Multithreading

i run webgl build on Opera and plugin Graphy showes that it is 1 core in job hm/

where can be problem? in asset / browser/ settings/not released yet ?

 

Hi,

Can how do the copy and paste from external to TMP Input Field on mobile? I'm using Unity 2022.1.23f1.
Thanks