(daxz_) animated guis

[unborn mirage]

i want to make an animated gui where like you open an inventory and it has a gif/video playing in the background. how would i accomplish that apart from making a ton of uis frame by frame?

[mighty quartz]

(daxz_) animated guis

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[unborn mirage]

maybe shader magic?

i want to like have a screen right

a main menu sorta thing

[hardy mango]

shader magic is only good for looping animations, if you need a start and an end then shaders won't do it for you

[unborn mirage]

and have a cinamatic playing in the background, oh now that im thinking about it, probably easier for me to just animate it out on the server

[unborn mirage]

yeah i want it to loop

[hardy mango]

it's okay for players to start viewing the cinematic at any point in the cinematic?

[unborn mirage]

wouldd the way to have like this sorta main menu is to like have a really big item that you spawn in on an armor stand?

[unborn mirage]

yes

[hardy mango]

what you could do is put every frame into 1 very very tall png and change UV coords based on GameTime in a text shader

[unborn mirage]

is there documentation or something for that? i have no idea where to even make the file for this lol

[hardy mango]

not that i am aware of

[unborn mirage]

hmm can you give me some example for some simple shaders?

like a pack

[hardy mango]

i don't have an example, just know it's possible

[unborn mirage]

sorry, i meant like some packs that make use of simple shaders that i can look at to get a basic understanding

[hardy mango]

https://github.com/McTsts/Minecraft-Shaders-Wiki

[unborn mirage]

thank you!

[unborn mirage]

im having trouble here understanding targets

Targets
The "targets" list declares frame buffers - think of these as canvases we can read/write pixels onto. Each entry in the list can be either:
An object with "name" (string), "width" (integer) and "height" (integer) of the buffer
A string name, for which width/height will default to game window's width/height
You are free to mix both ways of declaring buffers, like so:
"targets": [
"foo",
"bar",
{"name":"baz", "width":73, "height":10},
"qux"
]

can i put whatever i want for these?

why would i need auxtargets when i have normal target?

it says additional but cant i have that in normal target?