Hi,
I’m creating an online Expo where video, Animated GIF’s, 3D objects and still images come together.
To keep it 'loadable" and not to heavy i will have different scenes and rooms to view the art.
I want to use animated GIF’s / stickers (with alpha layer) in my rooms. Although im experiencing that the CoSpace in editing and in view mode gets really slow (already with 1 GIF) on my computer. On Ipad and phone it views much faster. I Already tried to make the GIF really short (1 Sec, 12 frames) and small size (262kb) but still really slow.
Is there a smart or ‘right’ way to import GIFs, or is there video compression with alpha that will work :)?
Hope somebody knows 
Yes, GIFs are very problematic in CoSpaces - almost to the point where I think they should be removed from the application. A single GIF can cause the editor to become completely unusable (on Google Chrome), and I usually discourage students from using it.
@Nikolay, any thoughts on this?
Geoff @ TechLeap
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Thanks for your reaction and info. Good to hear thats it’s the GIF’s that make it slow and now my aproach 
I’m thinking of a solution to create short animations with .PNG Stills and let them switch in time using CoBlocks.
I’m very new to programming with CoBlocks maybe someone now’s the right solution. What i wanna do:
I want to have 5 PNG images in a list where every PNG is shown for 0,2 sec, this loops go’s on forever.
I already tried a solution with the transparency see image in post) , but i don’t know how to add a timer to this. And maybe this not the right approach at all 
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Hi @Willemijn_van_arnhem,
You could use mp4 video files instead of gifs. That would decrease memory usage dramatically
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Hi Nikolay,
Thanks for your reply 
I found that out, but MP4 does not support Alpha witch i would love to use.
I figured out a way to Recreate the GIF concept with CoBlocks and PNG images 
And to inspire/help others,
this is my final set-up for a 5 frame animation made out of a PNG Sequince and with Coblocks
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Just one more question
I created a Function to easy change the imput frames. Is it possible to save functions and use them in other scenes/Cospaces?
That would be so awesome !
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Hi @Willemijn_van_arnhem,
Currently it is not possible. This is a nice feature proposal and we will discuss it.
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You can Copy & Paste functions from one scene/CoSpace to another though, so you could create a Library of your favourite functions in a single CoSpace and grab functions when needed.
Geoff @ TechLeap
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Thanks for the tip! Thats a smart one!
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Thnx a lot, very useful. Gretings from Bogotá, Colombia!
