ihsanity / mgGif

A unity library to parse GIF files and extract the images as textures

mgGIF

A unity library to parse a GIF file and extracts the images, just for fun

Installation

Copy Assets\mgGif\mgGif.cs to your project.

Alternatively, the upm branch can be pulled directly into the Packages directory, e.g.

git clone -b upm [e-mail]:gwaredd/mgGif.git

Usage

Pass a byte[] of the GIF file and loop through results.

byte[] data = File.ReadAllBytes( "some.gif" );

using( var decoder = new MG.GIF.Decoder( data ) )
{
    var img = decoder.NextImage();

    while( img != null )
    {
        Texture2D tex = img.CreateTexture();
        int delay = img.Delay;
        
        img = decoder.NextImage();
    }
}

See AnimatedTextures.cs for an example

NB: For speed the decoder will reuse buffers between each NextImage() call. If you need to keep the raw image data then ensure you Clone() it first.

For an additional performance improvement, uncomment mgGIF_UNSAFE at the top of the file and allow unsafe code compilation in the assembly.

Benchmarks

Benchmarks of the time to decode three test animations using different libraries.

Library	Editor	Mono	IL2CPP
UniGif	7321 ms	3790 ms	3178 ms
Unity-GifDecoder	365 ms	123 ms	88 ms
mgGif	247 ms	112 ms	80 ms
mgGif (Unsafe Mode)	280 ms	106 ms	70 ms

[2020-10-11] mgGIF is the fastest pure C# GIF decoder for Unity on github