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Video Player for LCDs (vanilla)

Plays animated gifs on LCD screens.


Demonstration Video

You can use http://ezgif.com/resize to resize your GIF down to about 178x178 for the small lcd, 356x178 for the large one. They work better if they are the proper size.

1. Go to http://spaceengineers.io/tools/storage-loader
   
2. Drag your animated gif file into the gray box on that page.
   
3. Depending on the size of the gif, it could take a little while to load.
   
4. Copy each script under the file name on that page into the programming block in game and run the PB once for each one. (NOTE: Make sure you don't have a timer running the PB while your are doing this. If the script runs more than once for any of the storage loader scripts, it won't work)
   
5. Load this script into the PB, set the frameWidth and frameHeight based on the size of LCD you are using, and run it.
   
6. Wait. After a little while (can take a few minutes depending on how big the gif is) the gif will start playing. Some GIFs may not work. The GIF file only has to load once, so when loading a blueprint or save the video will start playing instantly.

Note: Adjust the throttle if you get complexity errors.

You can use programming block arguments to change which frame(s) are played. Ex: "frames 1 3 5 7" will play frames 1, 3, 5 and 7, then stop. If you add loop into the list of frames, it will play each frame until the loop and then loop the remaining frames. Ex: "frames 1 2 3 4 5 loop 6 7 8 9 10"

Fork on github: http://github.com/rockyjvec/SpaceAnimatedGifs

I doubt this would work very well in multiplayer although I haven't tried it.