Animated waving flag in the main menu

[elioqoshi]

Would you agree on animating the flag in the main menu to be waving? That would add some life to the main menu.
Similar to Crash Team Racing (beginning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O8FK5d67cM

[auriamg]

Maybe, but I'm a bit unconvinced. This may get annoying (IIRC crash team racing had a lot less menus than we had). Also, this is not possible with the current GUI engine, and this feature is probably not important enough to warrant modifying the GUI engine for that

[elioqoshi]

So you say that even an animated GIF wouldn't be possible?

[auriamg]

If we did it, an animated gif would definitely not be the way :) that's not the way 3D engines work

[elioqoshi]

But then I'm not sure of the limitation you were referring to?

[auriamg]

We'd need to make it a 3D animation. It's doable but just not a priority, atm the background is a static image

[MatthewsSam]

How is the background drawn? If it's with a shader then it might be possible to modify it "relatively easily "

[leilei-]

the way i'd do it is make a texture atlas and just change the tex coordinates over time. You can make your 3d flag animation in blender and output PNGs to process in imagemagick's montage

[auriamg]

I'm closing this because in the end this is not a bug and not a feature request that we really plan to work on at this time. It may code later, but considering we are mostly busy implementing networked multiplayer, having a waving background seems extremely unimportant in comparison

[MatthewsSam]

Maybe it would be better to let it open?
So anyone interested can give it a try