[Interest] Qt and Unity

[Sean Harmer]

Hi,

On 28/03/2016 14:44, Tyler Brown wrote:
> My apologies if this got posted before, but I'm not sure it went through.
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Does anybody have experience using Qt with Unity.  We've coded a 
> fairly large architecture with the plan to use QML, but we're doing 
> UI/UX through a 3rd party company and they use Unity.
>
> With the research I've done it looks like there are three options
> 1) Use the Qt code as a plugin within Unity
> 2) Use Qt's webview to encapsulate Unity into a window
> 3) Use Unity Standalone, get a WinID handle and then embed it into the 
> Qt app (this is Windows only, so not sure if I can resort to other 
> method on other platforms)
>
> #1 might prove difficult with polymorphism, marshalling, etc...?
> #2 might not give great performance?
> #3 only works if we have different solutions for other platforms, even 
> then we'd have to set up a lot of shared memory etc... So I feel that 
> it isn't great
>
> Platforms to be supported:
> OS X
> iOS
> Windows
> Android
>
> We do want almost real-time feedback (delay of less than .5 seconds), 
> so performance is fairly important.  Framerate and smoothness would be 
> of higher priority.
>
> If anyone can shed light on this, it would be great!  Apologies if the 
> question is poorly worded or if I'm missing vital information, just 
> let me know and I'll do my best to fix it.

What is there in Unity that you need for your UI/UX? Is usuign Qt for 
this part too not an option? The only information I can give is that the 
marshalling can quickly become a large burden on development and 
maintenance.

Cheers,

Sean

>
> Thanks!
>
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