So, How do I go about getting a gif to play on a flat surface in UE4

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The title just about sums it up, trying to get a gif in game, in a way to be able to be applied to a number of static meshes, or whatever I need to put it on, thanks for your time!

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Hi,

Im afraid UE4 is not that CompuServe compatible…
But if you lookup “Flipbook texture”, you may find what you are looking for… :slight_smile:

Cheers,

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And here is some info that goes over how to create the flipbook in UE4 as mentioned:

.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Content/Tools/RenderToTextureTools/5/index.html

and some more good info in thread:

:slight_smile:

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Hi,

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I remembered thread but couldnt find it anymore :slight_smile:

Concerning FlipBooks, please correct me if Im wrong here:

  • Since the frames are organized in rows and colums (without dimensions), it is implied that the flipbook frames are square shaped.
    One cannot create a 16:9 flipboox texture (without letterboxing, the frame still occupies a square region in the texture).

  • As the max texture size that UE4 can import is 4096x4096, a one second “film” (25 fps) can only be around 800x800 pixels in size.
    Thus a 320x200 film (still occupying 320x320 per frame) would yield 144 frames, or 5,76 seconds, animation (per texture).

  • Daisy chaining flipbooks together to create longer sequences is possible, but questionable in terms of resources/performance…

Is line of thought correct?

Cheers,

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isn’t quite right, the maximum texture size import supported by UE4 is 8192x8192, here is a pic.

however I think UE4 can only display it at 4096x4096 in game or something like that, cant really remember, the beta was a long time ago;)

also even though the max supported texture size is 8192x8192 you can import larger textures as you can see here.

I got 2 warnings, one about the texture not being a power of 2 and the other about trying to import a texture larger then the max supported size.

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Hi,

Here are the specs :slight_smile:
.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Content/Types/Textures/SupportAndSettings/index.html

So we are both right :stuck_out_tongue:
8192 yes, but you need to modify an engine constant in the source code…

Cheers,

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so we are:)

I knew there was something you had to do, just couldn’t remember what;)