GIF / Flipbook Support

[Deantwo]

Describe what are you aiming to achieve
I am looking for a way to use a GIF file as a texture. This would be useful for basic 2D animated textures.

Describe any workarounds you can use now
I don't know of any workaround using orels Unity Shaders yet. But the documentation doesn't mention anything related to "GIF", "Flipbook" or "Array".

Any other comments or context/references
Poiyomi has an option for this called Flipbook, which then converts the GIF file into a texture array.

[orels1]

Hmm, that would be a neat module to add, but creating the tool to convert gifs into texture arrays would be the biggest hurdle. I'll need to look if poi's implementation is open source, since then I could just rely on that as a reference

[Deantwo]

That is a good point, I didn't think to find the exact code.

I did a quick search and found their GIF to TextureArray converter method:
https://github.com/poiyomi/PoiyomiToonShader/blob/master/_PoiyomiShaders%2FScripts%2FThryEditor%2FEditor%2FHelpers%2FConverter.cs#L354