Help with materials and such

[Thegerba]

Ok, so I'm currently in the process of creating a mod and it's all been going quite well.
I've hit a bump in the road, and that's the fact that I need to have gifs and png files on screen nd such. I was planning to use vgui.create("Dimage") and then I realized that I've absolutely no clue how to make my own images in the mods folder appear instead of those already inside of the gamemode's materials folder.

So I ask you, how would I make a .gif file inside of my addon folder (MyAddon/materials/) accessible though Dimage:SetImage()

[G😹nz😻]

You can't load GIFs in garrysmod, although you can load pngs inside your materials folder
if your png is inside myaddon/materials/vgui/image.png
Then do DImage:SetImage("vgui/image.png")

[Thegerba]

[QUOTE=gonzalolog;51871297]You can't load GIFs in garrysmod, although you can load pngs inside your materials folder
if your png is inside myaddon/materials/vgui/image.png
Then do DImage:SetImage("vgui/image.png")[/QUOTE]

Oh, well that's a shame.
Hm, I thought you could convert .gif into .vtf

[dannyf127]

This might be dumb, but you could upload the gif to the internet of some form of webpage. Then from there you can retrieve that website, parent it to a panel them boom, gif ingame.

[G😹nz😻]

[QUOTE=Thegerba;51871326]Oh, well that's a shame.
Hm, I thought you could convert .gif into .vtf[/QUOTE]

Extract all frames from gif, place it inside a folder, open vtfedit, select file>import and select all frames, there you go, you will have an animated vtf, you have to add animated texture proxy inside it vmt