Animated Sprite as an UI element?

[Maarten_deVries]

I have been searching this forum and came across a lot of old posts.

If I’m correct you can use animated sprites but you have to put them on a Plane model.
It is not working on a UI Image element. So then my question is how can I add a 3d model as a child of a 2d screen element? If this is not possible then what would be the solution?

In my project I want Pulsing circles as a UI element where you can click on.

[yaustar]

Unfortunately, not supported in the engine but can work with some extra code:

Animated sprites in UI

Hello! So I have a use-case where I need to combine text as well as animated sprites in a single object. Now, Text is only available as a UI-Element, while animated sprites are not available as UI-Element. This seems like an oversight? Or am I missing something? I noticed that ElementComponent has a spriteFrame property and made a quick script to update it based on an fps attribute: var UiSpriteAnim = pc.createScript('uiSpriteAnim'); UiSpriteAnim.attributes.add('fps', {type: 'number', defaul…

[MHA]

Check this link.
https://playcanvas.com/project/560797/overview/tutorial-render-to-texture

You can just use this material in it to render on UI. But I am not sure about it as I didn’t need to try it yet. But I think it is possible to apply it on a 2d screen.

You can use animated sprite on any model. Not just Plane.