Slideshow system in Unity3d and Jibe?

[haijun]

Hello there,

Does anyone know how to play ppt presentation or set up a slideshow system in Jibe? Mine is self-hosted Jibe world. Was told I needed to create my own slideshow system. Any tutorials?

Many thanks.

Standee

[Chris Hart]

Essentially, you would need to save your presentation to a series of images – this is nice and easy in PowerPoint, you just select Save As, then in the file type drop down you select your image format (jpg or png probably best). You can then import those images into your project and use them as texture assets for each slide.

 

The next step would be a script to change between them - the following link is a nice place to start:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/78548-Simple-Image-Slideshow

 

Though to network this example you would need to refer to the Jibe manual – there is a section in there that describes the general principle. You would broadcast the fact that the slide had changed to a new integer number. Then the listening half of your script would be notified of the new slide number, and sync up.

 

Hope this helps as a starter,

 

Chris

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[John Lester]

I've used this system available on the Unity Asset Store and find it to be very good.  It's completely modifiable and lets you create slideshows that are either automatic (new slide every X seconds) or manual (user presses a key to advance/back up).

http://u3d.as/content/orframework/orslideshow/3ws

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[haijun]

Thanks Chris! I will try it out.

Standee

[haijun]

Thanks John!

[Steve G]

"texture assets for each slide....script to change between them"

I have Jibe code that does this - though for 3D objects and as they are objects it means I need to do a Jibe build for each new presentation.

It seems more likely that you ALSO want an upload the images webpage rather than have to build your Jibe world every time.
That's something I haven't done, but will look into later this summer - if I move from their server.

Steve

[Julien]

There are ways to get web pages displaying in Unity, as one option for displaying slides.  Just find a service that allows you to upload a ppt, and access it through a web page.  This may or may not be easier than exporting to images for simple slides - what it gets you is things like slide transitions and embedded movies.

The limitation, unfortunately, is that the solutions I've seen for displaying web pages are standalone only.  In the webplayer, you could do it other ways (e.g. load the ppt in a frame outside of Jibe).