Background video instead of picture (workaround?)

Hey Community,

A'llo, welcome to the VS community.

Unfortunately it's not possible to overlay videos in Visionaire Studio. I also highly recommend against using gif files in general - let alone animated gifs - as the picture quality of them is terrible. I only recommend using png or webp image formats (webp if you want better optimization - faster loading times & less required hdd space).

If you want to create a video in the background then you need to create a scene object & create an animation inside of the animation tab. You can set the loop amount to whatever you want inside of the properties (cog icon) page of the animation. Tick the infinite box to make it loop forever. To make the animation play on scene load you need to assign the animation you just created inside of the default animation dropdown menu on the object properties tab - alternatively you can create a play animation action inside of an at begin of scene action for the scene in question...

Hi ! Thank you! Wow... lets be honest here quys... this is sad xD I mean... Dayum. Okay whatever. So do I really have to insert every frame on my own? Why cant I  insert more than one at once?

you can  

thanks! NOW I have another problem. IT WORKS BUT () the first time the animation is played back it gives huge frame drops (128 pictures in animation) only after the first run is finished its on high fps. (not my graphics card guilt, i can assure u haha) does this change when i compile the game correctly? right now i check this with the play game function

yeah, thats a known issue with huge animations and/or big file sizes. The engine loads every frame separatly into the ram. Thas why the second time it runs smoothly. Now its time to optimize. As AFRLme already mentioned its recommended to use the webp file format for example because it reduces the file size while not compromizing with image quality. 

thanks! i will try it. where can i find the preload animation thing?

thanks! i will try it. where can i find the preload animation thing?

Before you use the preload animation thing, which is not something I recommend doing unless you really have to, can you please provide me with a little more detail about the animation in question? Cheers.

What is the default game resolution you have specified? Is the animation the full size of the default game resoltion? If it's not the size of the default game resolution, have you cropped into the images so only the visible part of each frame is shown or have you left each frame the size of the scene/default game resolution? Have you used duplicated frames to control the length of the animation? & finally, do you actually need all 128 pictures?

Would you be willing to share a video/screenshot of the scene/animation please?

P.S: Please check this section of the wiki. Specifically the image encoding & game optimization pages as I'm sure you will find them useful.

thanks! i will try it. where can i find the preload animation thing?

ALL GOOD ! Found it

thanks! i will try it. where can i find the preload animation thing?

Before you use the preload animation thing, which is not something I recommend doing unless you really have to, can you please provide me with a little more detail about the animation in question? Cheers.

What is the default game resolution you have specified? Is the animation the full size of the default game resoltion? If it's not the size of the default game resolution, have you cropped into the images so only the visible part of each frame is shown or have you left each frame the size of the scene/default game resolution? Have you used duplicated frames to control the length of the animation? & finally, do you actually need all 128 pictures?

Would you be willing to share a video/screenshot of the scene/animation please?

P.S: Please check this section of the wiki. Specifically the image encoding & game optimization pages as I'm sure you will find them useful.

Hi! OKay here u have a screnshot.
See the flies? Those are flying all over across the screen, so yeah fullscreen animation

The next version can overlay videos via lua.