Quicktime movie with transparency channel

[aaThomas]

Hi again. Now that the new release of Vizard is out, I've been enjoying the quicktime movies with transparency - it works like a charm!

Though it wasn't planned, the release notes mention that animated GIF's are supported as well. http://www.worldviz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1243

So I've been trying to get an animated GIF (with transparency) to play, but that didn't really work out. The animated GIF shows only the first frame (it doesn't animate). The function play() does not work with a GIF texture.

Have you got any ideas on how to get my GIF to animate?

[farshizzo]

You need to add the animated GIF as a video texture, not a normal texture. Example:

gif = viz.addVideo('animated.gif')
gif.play()