Create animated textures from .GIF or Video files
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Information and Tips
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.
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.
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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
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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.
Resize to 50% will be 4x faster, 25% will be 16x faster. The resulting texture will be identical. See image processing options.