Animated Load Screen!

[DurrCo Games]

Is it possible to have an animated gif as your load screen background? (The screen that says New Game, Continue, Options, ect. when you boot the game up). I made a gif and loaded it into the game, and while it does recognize the file and display it, it doesn't animate it like it should; it only displays the first frame. Can someone help me with this? It's a small thing, but I'd really like it to work out.

 

[Rayd12smitty]

I have a tutorial for the splash screen up in Tutorials and Scripts. I believe it would use the same concept. If you have frame images instead of a .gif PM me and I can help you

 

[DurrCo Games]

Oh, yea, I do have all the frames saved seperately, so if there's a way to do it without compiling a gif I can :3 I'll PM you. Thanks!

 

[DurrCo Games]

Unfortunately, Rayd12smitty as unable to aid me in my problem after all; it was something different than what he had initially thought. Incase it needs clarifying, let me do so now:

What I need is to find a way to get my animated gif to work as a background for the load screen. By "load screen", I mean the screen that says "New Game, Continue, Options..." and the like, where the player chooses to load their old game or begin a new one.

This is the gif image by itself. It animated fine on it's own as an independent image.

However, when I set it as the background for the loadscreen, I get this:

It appears exactly as that static image with no animation at all; even though it was imported as a gif.

Does anyone know a simple script modification to fix this, or is there just something I'm doing wrong?

 

[Diverscope]

It might be stupid, but have you tried to rename the .gif extension to .png?

 

[DurrCo Games]

no, but I can try XD seems really simple so I'ma punch myself if it works

EDIT: Okay that didn't work either :(

 

[Luka S.J.]

First let me say, that is a really nice background! Did you make that?

Secondly, I can't believe this sort of thing keeps popping up. Go into PokemonLoad and under line 47 (where you'd see all the various updates) add @sprites["background"].update . That's it. It's that simple. You can't update your background, if there is no update function for it.

 

[DurrCo Games]

Yes I did :3 thank you for the fine compliment sir!
Secondly, I'ma go try this right now!

EDIT:
Didn't work :( I'll show you what the code looks like just to make sure I'm doing it right... starting at line 47 of PokemonLoad
loop do
@sprites["background"].update
Graphics.update
Input.update
pbUpdate

It still only displays the first frame of the gif :(

 

[Luka S.J.]

Yes I did :3 thank you for the fine compliment sir!
Secondly, I'ma go try this right now!

EDIT:
Didn't work :( I'll show you what the code looks like just to make sure I'm doing it right... starting at line 47 of PokemonLoad
loop do
@sprites["background"].update
Graphics.update
Input.update
pbUpdate

It still only displays the first frame of the gif :(

Haha. Oh dear. You didn't need to do anything at all. No code changes. You compiled your GIF wrongly. The game couldn't animate it because of that. I tested the Load Screen with 2 other GIFs and they worked, and now I recompiled your GIF and it works too.

Here you go, this one should work with the game (it worked for me at least).

 

[DurrCo Games]

Lol the image won't show... But it figures it was something I did wrong XD I'm so scatter brained.