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Huy Tran
Huy Tran

Reputation: 4431

Load GIF from WWW.texture in Unity3d

In my game, I get link image from Facebook, and then I use WWW.texture to download an image. But WWW.texture supports only PNG and JPG so I can't load GIF image.

How can I load a GIF file?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5391

Answers (1)

Jerdak
Jerdak

Reputation: 4056

Download to local machine using standard C# WebClient (I'm pretty sure it's supported in MONO):

//.. Imported from System.Net
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.DownloadFile(@"http://www.facebook.com/superhappyimage.gif",@"C:\image.gif");

Reading GIFs is another issue entirely. You could try a 3rd party lib, Stackoverflow: Animated GIF Library, or you'll need to write your own. I don't recall Unity having GIF reading in its API but maybe that has changed.

Lastly, Unity does not natively support animated images(GIFs). Once you parse the gif you need to write your own custom viewer.

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/13156/animated-gif-as-a-texture-on-iphone.html

Upvotes: 1

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