Animated backgrounds?

Before I ask anything, can you even skin a UnityGUI background?

Okay, real question, assuming answer to previous question was yes: Can you skin a background that's an animated image?

 

It depends on what you mean by 'background.' A full screen image or the background image for a particular control?

There is no Animated Gif support in Unity if that's what you are asking. You can roll your own bones with a texture sheet however, controlling it's progression with either a state machine or perhaps the new animation facilities in 2.6.

 

Like a full-screen background for an entire UnityGUI menu. It might be possible to do it with a movie texture... or are those pro-only?

 

You can add a background image using GUI.DrawTexture, but there is no GUISkin property to set this automatically.

 

Since most of the background images use a simple 2D image, if you created an 2d animation in a photo editing software such as photoshop, then you could save it as a .gif and import it, assuming that Unity supports the .gif file, which I'm not sure it does, but wouldn't see why it wouldn't.

Yea.... I submitted my reply, and then re-read it and noticed the last paragraph saying that Unity doesnt support an animated .gif so... yea... I basically have nothing else now...

 

Step 1 - Save your animation as a .mov
Step 2 - Apply the .mov as a texture to a plane
Step 3 - Point camera with said GUI at plane so that it takes up the whole screen (like a background)
Step 4 - ???
Step 5 - Profit

 

You could also try a script like the following, which makes use of Mono's System.Drawing library: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/AnimatedGifDrawer

 

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Where do u find texture and plane