display web pages in game?

[diament]

I've been banging my head against this for a couple days: I am trying to display a web page inside a game.

My best attempt was using the Scaleform DefaultTextArea, getting the HTML content using an AS3 URLLoader, and setting the htmlText to the contents of the URLLoader.data. When I used Flash Professional's own movie player to test it, I could see both the text and images from inside the HTML, but no support for JavaScript or css via link ref. When I used the Scaleform Lanuncher inside Flash Professional, the text renders but not the images. When I import the swf file into UDK and load using a "Open GFX Movie" node in kismet, the widgets in the swf file displays in the game but the textArea is blank - no text or images from the html. To make matters worse, I see no way to import an html or jpg file into the content browser and get it into the same package as the swf file.

So, bottom line: does anyone know a way to have full HTML rendering support inside a game, be it via Scaleform or any other way?

this is already out there for Unity3d - http://mythoslabs.com/uwebkit
has anyone seen anything similar for UDK?

thanks!

[Henrik]

There is no existing built in solution, however you may be able to program a certain amount of web communication using httplink. I'm not sure. This tutorial may offer you some clue - dunno why it says UE1 but it's for UDK.

http://unrealdb.com/a-user-login-system-for-udk/

Obviously this is for a user login system but you may be able to use the same principles to pull other kinds of data.

Also remember that UDK requires images to be in a certain format.

There is one solution I know of for full web page rendering that works with Unreal Engine, I forget the name but anyway it's a middleware solution and has not been integrated into UDK. All I will say is I know it's possible, but if you really wanted it you'd probably have to have a full engine license.

[FlynT]

I might be wrong but couldn't it be possible to hook up http://awesomium.com/ through DLLBind?