You can use code to perform interactions between plug-insA set of code created outside of Unity that creates functionality in Unity. There are two kinds of plug-ins you can use in Unity: Managed plug-ins (managed .NET assemblies created with tools like Visual Studio) and Native plug-ins (platform-specific native code libraries). More info
See in Glossary and your Unity code. The following examples show how to call various types of functions from JavaScript and C/C++/C# code in your Unity project.
The following code is an example of JavaScript code that your Unity C# script can call functions from.
mergeInto(LibraryManager.library, {
Hello: function () {
window.alert("Hello, world!");
},
HelloString: function (str) {
window.alert(UTF8ToString(str));
},
PrintFloatArray: function (array, size) {
for(var i = 0; i < size; i++)
console.log(HEAPF32[(array >> 2) + i]);
},
AddNumbers: function (x, y) {
return x + y;
},
StringReturnValueFunction: function () {
var returnStr = "bla";
var bufferSize = lengthBytesUTF8(returnStr) + 1;
var buffer = _malloc(bufferSize);
stringToUTF8(returnStr, buffer, bufferSize);
return buffer;
},
BindWebGLTexture: function (texture) {
GLctx.bindTexture(GLctx.TEXTURE_2D, GL.textures[texture]);
},
});
The following code is an example of Unity C# code that calls the functions defined in the JavaScript example.
using UnityEngine;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour {
[DllImport("__Internal")]
private static extern void Hello();
[DllImport("__Internal")]
private static extern void HelloString(string str);
[DllImport("__Internal")]
private static extern void PrintFloatArray(float[] array, int size);
[DllImport("__Internal")]
private static extern int AddNumbers(int x, int y);
[DllImport("__Internal")]
private static extern string StringReturnValueFunction();
[DllImport("__Internal")]
private static extern void BindWebGLTexture(int texture);
void Start() {
Hello();
HelloString("This is a string.");
float[] myArray = new float[10];
PrintFloatArray(myArray, myArray.Length);
int result = AddNumbers(5, 7);
Debug.Log(result);
Debug.Log(StringReturnValueFunction());
var texture = new Texture2D(1, 1, TextureFormat.ARGB32, false);
BindWebGLTexture(texture.GetNativeTexturePtr());
}
}
The following code is an example C++ plug-in with simple functions that you can call in your Unity project.
#include <stdio.h>
extern "C" void Hello ()
{
printf("Hello, world!\n");
}
extern "C" int AddNumbers (int x, int y)
{
return x + y;
}
Then, use the following Unity C# code in your Unity project to call the C++ functions.
using UnityEngine;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour {
[DllImport("__Internal")]
private static extern void Hello();
[DllImport("__Internal")]
private static extern int AddNumbers(int x, int y);
void Start() {
Hello();
int result = AddNumbers(5, 7);
Debug.Log(result);
}
}