replace dancing ACU with sane gif

[BlackYps]

For the love of god please replace the dancing ACU with a normal loading gif.
I even made one for you that you can use:

(it is a white circle on transparent background so it is suited for the dark client but looks not so good in a preview on white background)

[dmalukov]

Debatable - I like dancing ACU.

[iczero]

I also like the dancing ACU

[1-alex98]

Yes a setting to choose is probably needed

[micheljung]

The dancing ACU consumes 20MiB of memory

[1-alex98]

Yeah that might be fixed by making a gif with less quality

[BlackYps]

or we use the spinning circle gif and all people that want the dancing acu can use a theme. Theme support is right around the corner, so we don't even need to code a setting to choose the gif anymore.

[Katharsas]

Check if we can use a sane format like APNG instead of gif.
Gif is a horrible format and only has 1 bit transparency "channel" so you cannot create transparent gif that works on bright and dark background without artefacts, as seen in the gif above, which would become a theming problem.

[micheljung]

APNG isn't supported by JavaFX https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8092356

[Katharsas]

Has animating an SVG path via PathTransition been tried? That should cost basically no memory and should work with UI scaling without any artefacts.

[JaggedAppliance]

Bump. I wanna know how many of the people that like this actually play ladder regularly.

[1-alex98]

There is an article that explains how to make a theme. A theme for replacing the gif is mostly a matter of putting the gif in the correct folder...

[1-alex98]

https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/wiki/Themeing

[JaggedAppliance]

The ACU should be in a theme, not the other way around.

[Farmsletje]

Something like this can indeed be nice for a theme but should by no way be the default. It's way too cringe for that

[BlackYps]

The new tmm UI will not have that gif

[Sheikah45]

TMM killed the ACU