Gifs in Processing

informer91

I'm using the gifAnimation library. However I need a way to load gifs like this

  rain = new Gif(this, "rain.gif");
  rainwinterLeaf = new Gif(this, "rainwinterleaf.gif");
  rainsummerLeaf = new Gif(this, "rainsummerleaf.gif");
  fogwinterLeaf = new Gif(this, "fogwinterleaf.gif");
  fogsummerLeaf = new Gif(this, "fogsummerleaf.gif");
  cloudywinterLeaf = new Gif(this, "cloudywinter.gif");
  cloudysummerLeaf= new Gif(this, "cloudysummer.gif");
  normwinterLeaf = new Gif(this, "dayWinterLeaf.gif");
  normsummerLeaf = new Gif(this,  "daysummerleaf.gif");

without getting out of memory error. I do not have access to the PImages of the Gifs so normal requestImage etc won't work

KevinWorkman

Where are you running this code? Where is your example MCVE?

informer91

 import gifAnimation.*;

Gif rain;


void setup(){
rain = new Gif(this, "rain.gif"); //etc

}

void draw(){
 rain.play();  //etc
}

informer91

each gif is greater than 20mb..

clankill3r

Did you increase the available memory for processing? And do you have them load all at once?

Maybe you can request something like this for the library if speed is an issue: http://processing.org/reference/requestImage_.html

informer91

I cant use requestImage and I couldn't get my thread function to set the global vars so I'm trying a different approach