Animated gifs?

[trashtreasury00]

Is there anyway to use an animated gif file as a picture?
it only allows pngs and bmps but i wanted to use an animated gif for a moving helicopter to make it look more realistic.

 

[CIPWM74]

No, it can't allow .GIFs. As far as I know, no one's made a script for it either. But you cna get each individual frame and use a show picture command...

 

[linkz0r]

The "realistic" thing have nothing to do with the fact you´ll use gifs or not... You don´t need a gif to animate a sprite. You can do all of that in Ruby, and have much more control of the animation than you´d have with gifs.

Unless someone makes a script to show gif files in the game, you´re bound to use either CIP´s suggestion about show pictures or use RGSS to do the trick with multiple images or tiled frames in one single image (like what happes with character sheets).

 

[S S Muu]

There is a GIF script!
(Never tried it so am not sure if its working)
http://www.rmxp.org/forums/index.php?topic=25393

 

[Ellie]

To use animated .gifs you would also have to pay compuserve money for a license, AFAIK, as they bought .gif and have a very strict view on how they can be used. (Much like how you need a license for .mp3 if you distribute over a certain amount).

 

[DerVVulfman]

SephirothSpawn made a script to use .png files to play in succession to appear as Animated Gifs.  The script may be available in his test bed.  You may also find the script in a standalone topic at Creation Asylum.