I often encounter people who enquire how you tin import an animated GIF into Second Life®.
I state immediately that importing an animated GIF directly is incommunicable.
What we can do is divide the blithe GIF into the frames that etch it and apply a script that gives movement to the various frames.
The performance is very unproblematic, requires very few steps and the use of a specially created tool.
Let'southward see how to go along.
First, we choose an animated gif that has a full size of less than 10 MB.

Importing my blithe gif

At present, get to Gif2Ani Tool.

Now upload your GIF/VIDEO clicking on the button above.

It's important that the file has a dimension less than 10 MB.

When the GIF is imported, you can choose some parameters (similar fps speed, for example) and see the effect that you get in the preview.

When you are happy with it, press "create texture and script".

At present y'all will exist able to download the prototype and copy the script.

If you don't want to copy and paste each time the script that the tool creates for that epitome, you lot can simply use the script you detect in the Market.

Ok, now, let's go to 2d Life®.

  • Create a new object, a cube, for example (CTRL+B).
  • Create a new script inside the cube content tab and paste the script the tool created for you lot.
  • Save the script.
  • Now you will be able to see that but a cube's face is in move; import the prototype with the animated GIF'southward slides in SL®;
  • Put this image on the face in movement.
  • Done! You should run across your animated GIF now.

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