GIFs in Construct 3!

Hey!

So there is "Official" Gif capabilities in the Construct engine tied to the Animate version by Ashley, but there is no way of transcoding a webm into a gif natively in C3!

I guess my best bet is asking here for Ashley if this could be implemented into the Game Recorder's "Format" setting, or the community for some help!

In case this doesn't get implemented, best bet here would be to transcode it with libraries. I'm trying to follow this guide using the Game Recorder example as base, but not having much success as I'm not well versed in c3 scripting and I can't find much info other than the amazing Skymen c3 JS tutorials.

Am I on the right track? Do you guys know of any learning resources for c3 JS about working with external libraries and interacting with c3 in such a way?

Thanks!

Why do you need to do it inside Construct? You can easily get a GIF from the Video Recorder plugin if you drop the resulting video in to a free GIF conversion service like EZGif's video to GIF tool.

I'm aware it seems nonsensical but there are userbases where the format itself makes a huge difference to the user even if it's just a name change Ex. Mobile games where they're mostly children who don't know what a webm or even an mp4 is, but it's engrained in the culture (instagram has them labeled as gifs, Roblox games have gif export, etc) even if some of them are still videos themselves.

If it's too much of a hassle to implement officially I understand :)

Also, I've been getting requests from companies themselves on almost every project of mine regarding Gif exports! It really feels like it's still an important format.