GIFs in love?

[GamerDMG]

I want to make a project for school and asked myself: "Can I use GIFs in love2d?"
So yeah, is there any way you can do. I searched the entire web but found only one therad but the links with the solution weren't avaible anymore. So is there any possibility? pls help

[s-ol]

I want to make a project for school and asked myself: "Can I use GIFs in love2d?"
So yeah, is there any way you can do. I searched the entire web but found only one therad but the links with the solution weren't avaible anymore. So is there any possibility? pls help

why do you need gifs in LÖVE? gifs are a rather terrible format and if you don't need to use them for some very specific reason why would you. LÖVE doesn't support them by default but you could theoretically write your own parser.

[Sheepolution]

Welcome!
As far as I know, you can't put gifs in LÖVE. Is it animated images that you want? You can use quads for that.

First you need to turn the gif into a spritesheet. In case you don't have tools for that, you can use http://gif2sprite.com/ (Put it on PNG instead of JPG).

Click on View Sprite, right-click, and download the sprite.

Now in game you load the image

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function love.load()
	image = love.graphics.newImage("spritesheet.png")

Next we need to make quads. With quads we can draw parts of images.

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	quads = {}
	local imgWidth, imgHeight = image:getWidth(), image:getHeight()
	local spriteWidth = imgWidth / FRAMES
	for i=0,FRAMES-1 do
		table.insert(quads, love.graphics.newQuad(i * spriteWidth, 0, imgHeight, imgWidth, imgHeight)
	end

Change FRAMES into the number of frames your animation has.

Now we need a timer

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	timer = 0
end

function love.update(dt)
	timer = timer + dt * SPEED
end

Change speed to make the animation go faster. Now we need to draw it

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function love.draw()
	love.graphics.draw(image, quads[(math.floor(timer) % FRAMES) + 1], 100, 100)
end

Tada.

Or, you know, use a library like anim8.

[Skeletonxf]

If you want animation then you can use the video support Love provides with ogg files.