Allowing animated gifs as textures

[JuanFdS]

Right now gifs can be uploaded as textures.

However, they aren't animated and instead get frozen at some frame, it'd be nice to have them animated.

[JuanFdS]

Hi! @shawnlawson , how are you?

I'm working on a possible implementation for this. I have 2 ideas of how it could be done:

• Split the gif into its frames, load all images and in each paint() calculate the correct image to display and update it with texImage2D(...).
• Convert the gif into a video, and then use the video since texImage2D supports video elements.

I'm already working on the first one locally and after hardcoding a lot of stuff (I already have the frames + know their duration + changed the code in the nyan cat texture to load this instead) was able to get something working

However, in order to get any of the 2 options done I think we'd need to add a dependency to split the gif into frames or turn it into a video. And I think I'll need some help understanding how to add that to this project :P

For example, let's say I wanted to add this dependency to split the gif into frames:
https://github.com/matt-way/gifuct-js
how should I do it? 🤔

[shawnlawson]

Oh, I see, hmmm. I suppose if the dependency can be built into an include-able file that would work. I can work on that, but not for a couple weeks. Looks pretty awesome though!

[shawnlawson]

putting these here so I don't forget them.
https://github.com/movableink/three-gif-loader
https://github.com/MaciejWWojcik/three-plain-animator