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[rascal]

First an awesome thanks to you developers that keep making VP better.

Doing a quick search on FreeImage and Animated GIF support, I found that FreeImage has this support since version 3.7.0 release (talks about a new GIF plugin). Would it be possible to turn this feature on in VP? Sure would be nice to be able to use Animated GIFs in the tables, especially if we could load and display them through script as run once or looping. Display them on a wall or ramp and the animation can be used for lights, toys, dmd, or whatever. One image file with frames, what could be better?

[destruk]

agreed that it would be cool.

[starman]

Would be really cool.
I wish that, since I have loaded my first *.bmp - image in the editor.about 10-11 years ago.
But still, when I think, VP has improved a lot since then.
Therefore, even from me, many thanks to the development team.

Servus
Walter

[rascal]

<sub>That's it? That's all we got? Only three people in the whole community would like animate gif support for VP? Sad indeed.

EDIT: Opps, sorry didn't see the other three likes in my post, but still there should be others.</sub>

Edited by rascal, 24 October 2012 - 10:10 AM.

[unclewilly]

Me too
Id like that also

[faralos]

that would be the bees knees!
The cats pajamas? something akin to that anyhow
of course it would depend on how many frames of animation you have too I would think
there would have to be a limit to the size of the gif file but that sounds like a cool idea
hows about it Dev team is it possible?

[kruge99]

C'mon VP'ers! Hit that like button and hopefully some tech-savvy coder will add this wonderful feature to the source code!!!

[FDSystems]

We will bump this thread till we get results!

Good luck & thank you devs!

You have till midnight! You can choose the date !

[kiwi]

Yes, it is a good new feature.
Each new feature is good.

Max

Edited by kiwi, 24 October 2012 - 03:21 PM.

[Liteuser]

Yes, Support for animated .gif images would be nice to have in Visual Pinball.

[GSGregg]

I don't even know what it is (examples, anyone?) but knowledgeable people are proponents, so it must be good.

[oooPLAYER1ooo]

animated gif's suck IMHO but still it would be nice to have this feature . happy now rascal ?

[rascal]

animated gif's suck IMHO but still it would be nice to have this feature . happy now rascal ?

You suck, but we keep you around anyway.
Happy, nah, happier maybe.

[faralos]

I don't even know what it is (examples, anyone?) but knowledgeable people are proponents, so it must be good.

that cute saying that is animated under my post is a gif. It is a long one (and made for me by a fellow pinner!)
okay I hope this link goes through but here is a gif which is really a short animated cartoon of sorts.
Themes for your desktop usually have them they would be the hourglass or something similar.
so here's one of a dragon for reference
http://www.google.co...9,r:0,s:0,i:114
Damn! when I clicked on it it didn't look that long but if I upload it it can't be animated so look at this for the answer to your question

Edited by faralos, 25 October 2012 - 10:05 AM.

[GSGregg]

Thanks, faralos; cute dragon!

I sort of remembered those sig animations being called GIF (JIF?), but couldn't see why people were wishing for the feature when so many tables have DMDs already. The dragon illustrates that GIFs can be other than DMDs; now I'll wait for their objectives / potential uses to sink in.

[rascal]

Great, so there are a lot of people that would like this feature. Is there any of the developers interested in looking into this?

P1, I tried a apng file in VP just for kicks, and it uploaded ok, but sadly there was no animation when I played the table.

But animated apng or animated gif would be most welcome and appreciated from all the authors. Escpecially if we could use a loop, run once, or frame jump/start/stop function through script. Sure would make animated objects a walk in the park.

[koadic]

It would make it 'reel' easy to do animations then as the .gif images could be used as a sort of pseudo reel on walls or ramps on the actual table in a single image file, instead of having to use reels on the backdrop screen.

[kruge99]

But animated apng or animated gif would be most welcome and appreciated from all the authors. Escpecially if we could use a loop, run once, or frame jump/start/stop function through script. Sure would make animated objects a walk in the park.

Png flashers with alpha transparency and animation? In one graphic file? Think of the possibilities!

[faralos]

well yes there are many pins that use DMD's
but most of them are using them in conjunction with a Rom
I want the ability to use it in an original using a gif

[hmueck]

I want the ability to use it in an original using a gif

Have you tried HyperDMD?