[RESOLVED] System/Wheel Animated gifs in 4.15 (not animated ?)

[Mike_da_Spike]

Hey @Tom Speirs
I downloaded today the new version of PBX that supports animated gifs. Nice feature  ! And unexpected after releasing 4.14 this week

I created as example a small animated system GIF for FX :

 

But when running PBX, I only see a still image for the system (on the system screen, but also as preview per table)
Is this only for wheel images ? Or do I miss something ?

Edit : Tested also a animated gif as wheel, but that's not working for me too. just a still image

[Tom Speirs]

It should be working. Not sure why. Can you post a log? Maybe its an issue with that particular file I expect. I did put a limitation on number of frames. I will look.

[Tom Speirs]

Yeah that GIF is 215 frames. Its too big. I put a limit of 70 frames so it does not use up too many resources. All the frames need to be loaded into direct3d surfaces so there is a limit.

[Tom Speirs]

I have increased  the limit to 100 frames in 4.16. Its kind of a limitation, sorry.

[Tom Speirs]

I attach here the exes with the limit removed so you can see. Im concerned about performance but we can test and see how it works out.

Let me know.

 

PinballX32bit.zip PinballX64bit.zip

[Tom Speirs]

It takes about a second to load it on my laptop (i7 8750h) but works fine. I would say that's not acceptable.

[Tom Speirs]

I am going to work on this some more and see if I can get the GIF frames loading on a thread which will resolve most of the issues.

 

[Tom Speirs]

Okay, all sorted in 4.17 available in a minute. If at first you don't succeed try again!

[Mike_da_Spike]

Wow. You worked all night on this.

Just woke up. Need to create breakfast for mrs mike da spike. I will check after. Thanks Tom! 

I appreciate all your work

[Mike_da_Spike]

Working like a charm.
Don't see any delay or something on my cab or on my test device (PC not a laptop)
Thanks Tom !