saveGif is coming to p5 🌸 !

This is the minified, first and extremely buggy version of the p5.js library with the saveGif functionality implemented.

Download and installation

Download this file to the folder in which you usually develop your sketches and make sure to import it properly from the index.html file!
<script src=/path/to/sketch/p5.save-gif.js/>

How to use

The saveGif function admits at most 3 arguments for now:

saveGif(filename, duration, delay)

• filename for the name of the file downloaded to your computer
• duration duration in seconds that you wish to download from your animation
• delay delay in seconds that you wish to wait before recording the animation. The animation will nevertheless have a duration of what you specified on the duration argument.

As an example, I like to use it within the mouse/keyboard events:

 function mousePressed() {
   if (mouseButton === RIGHT) {
     saveGif('mySketch', 3, 1);
   }
 }

This piece of code will wait for 1 second and then encode 3 seconds worth of frames (180 frames at 60fps).

Final note

⚠️ There will be a gazillion bugs and things all over the place, but your help and feedback will surely help on smashing them! Thanks so much for your time and keep code-creating! 🌸