Play Movie Texture in Material on Unity 5?

Having trouble getting a video to play as a texture in a material. Advice?

The Unity documentation: http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-MovieTexture.html says add a script (presumably JS in the start() function and presumably to the GameObject with the material featuring the movie texture. In my material, I dropped the movie into the Albedo of the Standard Shader in Unity 5)

((MovieTexture)GetComponent<Renderer>().material.mainTexture).Play();​

So I did that and attached the script to the object with the material:

#pragmastrict

functionStart () {
((MovieTexture)GetComponent<Renderer>().material.mainTexture).Play();
}

functionUpdate () {

}​

Then I get the following errors:



Okay....

So what might be the issue?

 

Anyone? Playing a movie should be pretty simple right? What am I missing?

 

Caught a Unity doc typo. Nice. Also curious Unity or MonoDevelop couldn't be bothered to throw an error or warning from any of that then.

Also 'if I switch to JS'? That was JS-- created from within the Unity editor and opened in MonoDevelop. Did it do something to the formatting?

Tell you what though, it DID throw an error when I added the period after GetComponent.



And since you're from Unity, perhaps pass it on up that there should just be a toggle on materials using movie textures for playback. This is pretty in the weeds for something so simple, yeah?

 

Unexpected char 's'. Cool. There isn't an 's' in any of this code. Sweet.

So I tried deleting that script, creating a new UnityScript from within MonoDevelop and wrote in the line after Start again. Got this:



Nice.

I remove the ). Got:



Okay... Added two semicolons even though that's obviously not the solution. No change from Unity. What about dropping the semicolon, even though that's also obviously not it.



Brilliant.

 

That worked-- thanks! In the future, it would've been easier to just post that on the doc... The doc does NOT say to do that simple script. Instead it just says "paste this line of code that doesn't work and then here's a further example of how you could use it by attaching key commands instead of just showing how it could simply work."

But I'm glad you've resolved it here. Maybe paste exactly the last code example in your post above over this one in the doc and save others the trouble of having to figure out what the doc actually meant:

// this line of code will make the Movie Texture begin playing
((MovieTexture)GetComponent<Renderer>().material.mainTexture).Play();

I've noticed these docs tend to give half-answers. Why not just explicitly post the solution if it's a doc trying to provide an example solution? Again this isn't anything complex-- this is playing a movie. Frankly, this should be built into the engine directly via the shader UI.

Pardon the frustration here-- again, thank you for your assistance.

 

The code in the docs works fine, but it's C#. The issue is that the scripting docs have a button to use C# or Unityscript, but the manual does not—some of the code is C#, some of it's Unityscript.

--Eric

 

That's starting to make more sense to me then... I think I assumed it was JavaScript because this shouldn't be so complicated we need to go into C#... lol Plus all previous examples I have seen were in JavaScript, which no longer work in Unity 5. ...And nowhere in the doc does it say what language we're in if you're coming in cold off a search.

 

On What object do you attach this script?

 

The object with your material that uses a movie for a texture.