Integrating Vortex Studio with Unity

Vortex Studio and Unity can be integrated, either in a standalone Unity project, or as a distributed Vortex simulator using Unity as a graphic renderer.

Vortex Studio offers 2 plugins for Unity integration: one for a standalone simulator, the other aimed for a distributed simulator.

The following table summarizes the difference between the two approaches.

For distributed simulators com.cmlabs.vortex.integration	For standalone simulators com.cmlabs.vortex.integration.standalone
Vortex Simulation, where Unity is used as a graphic renderer.	Unity application where a Vortex application is embedded.
VortexUnityApp.exe is used and loads Asset Bundles that associates Vortex extensions, to Unity game objects	The Unity game is compiled and contains the Vortex simulation and Vortex assets.
Limited Unity workflow	Full Unity workflow
Support for Cables graphics	No support for Cables graphics
Support for Earthworks graphics	No support for Earthworks graphics
Support for Distributed simulation	No support for Distributed simulators
One-way Communication from Vortex to Unity	Two-way Communication between Vortex and Unity (through VHL)
Documentation in Integrating Unity as Graphics Renderer in a Vortex distributed simulator	Documentation in Integrating Vortex Studio in a standalone Unity project