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Ask HN: When Will Unity Web Player Come To Linux?

by tronium on 6/5/14, 8:57 PM with 2 comments

I've been an Ubuntu user for awhile now, and have noticed that significant steps have been taken to make Linux more gamer-friendly. Much content-creation software (e.g. Unity3D, and more recently Leadwerks Game Engine) has been brought to Ubuntu, and Steam has brought publishing to Ubuntu, but why not Unity Web Engine? Is it planned to be added in the future?

  • by vitovito on 6/5/14, 9:32 PM

    "Longer term, however, we expect that the performance and feature gap between the Web Player and WebGL will become much more narrow, and we expect that browser vendors will make the Web Player obsolete by dropping support for plug-ins, at which point WebGL will become the prime solution for targeting the web with Unity." --http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/04/29/on-the-future-of-web-pub...

    "Today’s browsers are speedier, safer, and more capable than their ancestors. Meanwhile, NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity. Because of this, Chrome will be phasing out NPAPI support over the coming year." --http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-f...

    Unity's expectation is that WebGL will replace the need for the Web Player at all, so I wouldn't expect to ever see it for Linux. Linux users will be supported via WebGL.

  • by johnny22 on 6/6/14, 2:39 AM

    In the meantime you could try using pipelight. There's a ppa for ubuntu folks.

    I can't speak for the performance thought as i've not used Unity3D.

    pipelight: http://pipelight.net/cms/installation.html

    demos: http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/unity3d-web-player-in-...