Gif2Ani

Create animated textures from .GIF or Video files

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Steps for creating a texture

hide Pick a GIF or VIDEO as a source for your texture
hide Upload the GIF or VIDEO
hide Disable unwanted frames

Selecting a GIF or VIDEO file as a source

When making a loop pick a source with a fixed camera position, no zooming or panning and no change in lighting for the best result.
Secondlife textures are limited to 1024x1024 pixels. The frames are put in the texture as tiles so less frames means better image quality.
Sources with more than 500 frames will process very slow.
If you want to crop a gif you can use this site: ezgif crop.
Logo in your gif? Try reverse image search to find one without it.

Uploading a GIF or VIDEO

You can use drag&drop, drop the file anywhere to upload.
Processing a typical 4 mb GIF should take about 4 seconds.
Processing a 3 mb video with 800 frames can take up to a minute.
To improve uploading and processing speeds cut down larger videos to the part you want. Shorter is better and always faster.
The preview takes a few seconds to start animating sometimes.
If in IE your preview flickers a lot try using chrome instead.

Advanced editing - Disable unwanted frames

If your video has too many frames disable some by clicking them.
or use one of the preset frame enabe/disable buttons
partial slomotion: use only the odd frames and then make parts of the video go slower by enabling some even frames in that part.
To see more frames at once select a smaller frame display size.
To see the preview while editing frames click the 'float' button.
Read the info about optimal framecount under advanced options.

Upload a .gif or video

Videos are 30 or 60 frames per second. A few seconds quickly means 100's of frames and MB's so please upload only short clips.
Resize to 50% will be 4x faster, 25% will be 16x faster. The resulting texture will be identical. See image processing options.

Target animation	Source gif/video hide
frames used. Dock (dragging currently ON) Float (dragging currently OFF) Speed: forward reverse ping-pong reset crop x px () Create texture and script

When you are satisfied with the preview you can create the texture and script.
See advanced editing to enable and disable frames.
Name for object in SL:
The preview in the target animation is using frames that are not shrinked to fit the created texture. Frames on the created texture can have a lesser quality.

Advanced editing
The frame image quality increases with a lower framecount. When your animation has 33 frames a texture that can hold 48 or 64 frames is created. By disabling 1 frame a texture that can hold 32 frames will be created and your image quality will greatly improve. If the generated texture is almost half white chances are you only need to disable a few frames to improve image quality. The created texture's optimal framecounts are: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 48, 64, 128

Use the green and red box to enable/disable many frames at once.
Use the yellow box to apply enable/disable/inverse actions to ranges.

Enable frames		Disable frames		Range actions

Disabled frames are faded. Left click to disable/enable a frame.
Right click a frame for a context menu with several options including copy/paste.
Frame display size: 50% 10%20%25%30%40%50%60%70%75%80%90%100% (Does not affect output.)