Animated backgrounds and animated box art

[Former user]

I love the ease of use and visuals of launch box, but there is one thing i think many would like to be added, that is using an animated .gif as a front cover. i have one i have made that the case opens the disc comes out then the case rotates and it close again. Please if its not to much work could you add this? Thanks.

[Max Payne]

Support for animated backgrounds and animated box arts could be pretty awesome.

[James Cantrell]

I second this

[Jason Carr]

Thanks guys, agreed. :)

[Max Payne]

Is it possible for Anonymous to edit the title to reflect the feature requested at the description? Like GIF support or something

[Jason Carr]

Thanks, Max, didn't notice that at first.

[walk left]

Using video files as backgrounds(if could) need much lesser disk space than gif files

[James Cantrell]

@ walk left it depends on the quality of the video, and i was going to use the gifs as cover art, i have a .mov and a .gif that are the exact same resolution and runtime, the .mov is 648 mb and the gif is only 84 mb, so what you say isnt always the case.

[walk left]

@ James Cantrell , same frame rate & same quality?

[James Cantrell]

yes, .mov are lossless and can support more colors than .gif which only supports 256 colors, gif is also lossless but it holds less color data than the mov, resulting in less space required.

[walk left]

Maybe u r right( If all ur video files using lossless codec)

[Martin Alejandro Liguori]

Use the platform intro video for background, like RETROFE

[Nathan DiYorio]

I'm just going to bump this thread with my request for .gif support in fanart and logos.

[Brad Cheyne]

Issue #814 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

[Kelvin Lee]

This would be a great feature indeed is to have animated box images or animated actual arcade cabinet images instead of flyers for mame.

[Brad Cheyne]

As a half step (maybe?) video can now be used as a background. Moving images can also be achieved via our Theme engine called XAML. This doesn't exactly cover LaunchBox though. Unsure if I should close the ticket, but these features kind of exist.

[%tCisis MrCrissis]

+1 for this. I think ad apng support for cover is good idea.

[Former user]

Bump

[Retro808]

Bumping does not do anything for getting this added. What matters is how many votes a feature request gets. Typically those with high votes get added to a user poll and it is then voted on. Even though this has 21 votes it did not even make the poll last year.

So the best thing to do is vote instead of bumping.

[Nat Spectrum]

I would love for LB to support gif and apng for as many image types as possible. SteamGridDB has a fantastic collection of animated box arts, clear logos, and ‘heroes’ (the big banner that appears at the top of a game’s library page, kinda like an arcade marquee), not to mention that Sega’s Genesis/Megadrive collection on Steam comes with a handful of official optional animated library graphics in the game’s files.

[Wade McMurrain]

+1 vote for adding animated .gif support for BigBox images.

[DA iNFAMOUS DRE]

+1 I’d really like to see this.

[Christian]

Issue #5461 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

[extracampine]

Support for 3D model boxes in general would be great. This is in the current poll so hopefully it will make it in. I would suggest that this feature be implemented in Launchbox instead of just BigBox, as many users on PCs don’t tend to use BB but are still paying members.

[Hifihedgehog]

+1 I would also love to see GIF/animated box art support.

[Lucoshi]

+1 I could see a Pac-Man 2 The New Adventure being used!