A way of using animated objects of GIF format

[ghost]

Is it possible to use GIF images for animation? This would have made life a lot easier. Certainly would have become much more flexible for noob developers like me who can't use Gosu::Image.load_tiles properly. Not to mention the popularity of the format around the globe is pretty high.

[jlnr]

Loading images from GIF seems simple enough. stb_image almost supports animated GIF files out of the box – note to self, search for "animated" here and there are some pointers: https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_image.h

It wouldn't really be an animation though, because Gosu has no concept of animations or time. It would be a new method (or an extra parameter to Image.load_tiles?) that would return all frames of an animated GIF file, in order, as an array of Gosu::Image.

[ghost]

Yes! That'll be awesome enough!