kcbf / processing-to-unity

Send the Processing screen buffer to other softwares (Currently support only to Unity3D 5+)

Processing to Unity

Render Processing Sketches Screens as an Unity Texture2D (compatible with Windows, OSX and Linux)

Get Started

Download the files from the github repository:

Processing

• Add the file ScreenBroadcast.pde to your sketch folder
• Add the methods as showed on the example

Unity

• Add the file ProcessingToTexture.cs to your Assets folder.
• Create (or import) any 3D object, for example, a quad (GameObject > 3D Object > Quad)
• Drag and drop the ProcessingToTexture.cs to the gameObject
• Set the width and height based on the width and height from processing skecth
• If you want run interactions on the processing sketchs, enable Unity to run on background (File > Build Settings > Player Settings... > check Run On Bakground)

Basic Example (Processing)

ScreenBroadcast sb;

void setup() {
  sb = new ScreenBroadcast();
  size(800, 800);
}

void draw() {
  //Draw things here!

  sb.BroadcastSplit(get());
  //Add some delay, change to higher values to have higher
  delay(20);
  //Anything bellow this line will be not send to Unity
}

Basic Example (Unity)

Data Transference

This simple system sends multiple chunks of byte arrays from processing to Unity, using by default the localhost ip "127.0.0.1" at port "8051".

ScreenBroadcast Methods

Method	return	Parameters	Role
BroadcastSplit	void	PImage	Broadcast Splitted data (split by 4)
Broadcast	void	PImage	Broadcast one package per time (deprecated)
getImageBytes	byte[]	Pimage	Return the bytes from the image encoded as JPG

Example