Support animated GIF export
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Description
For maps with animated tiles, it would be nice to support exporting to animated GIF format.
Unfortunately, Qt only supports reading animated GIF files, not writing them. But there are other Qt applications that have implemented writing to GIF files using GIFLIB, like Drawpile and QGifer:
https://github.com/drawpile/Drawpile/blob/master/src/libclient/export/gifexporter.cpp
https://github.com/Apkawa/QGifer/blob/master/src/gifcreator.cpp
Feature requested by @oryxdesignlab on Twitter.
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Research direction
Start by reading the referenced Drawpile src/libclient/export/gifexporter.cpp and QGifer src/gifcreator.cpp implementations, then locate Tiled's map export entry point. Done means maps with animated tiles can be exported as valid animated GIF files, including the required frame handling.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100