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For Unity users, Moments is a fantastic, free plugin which automatically and continuously records the last N seconds of gameplay and dumps that buffer to a .gif on-demand, asynchronously in the background without interrupting your game. You can easily configure the length of the buffer, the frame rate, the resolution, and the amount of color compression.

I integrated it into Legacy of the Elder Star in about ten minutes; it runs constantly in the background during gameplay and saves a Twitter-friendly .gif of the last 4 seconds whenever you hit G. All the animated gifs I've posted on the official website, our itch.io page, our social media accounts, and even the super high-res ones we put on our (now-defunct) Kickstarter page, were all captured using Moments.

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leafoAdmin8 years ago(+1)

I like this approach, I've done something similar for all my love2d games. That way I can just be playing the game, and hit a hotkey to record sections as much as I want without fumbling with an external program.

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PygmyMonkey8 years ago

For those interested in a more integrated gif tool in Unity, I've made Gif Creator (available on the Asset Store).
It's based on Moments (with the agreement of its creator, of course :D).

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KeyboardKrieger2 years ago

I'm not sure if this fits my current project, but I saved it for future projects. Giving the player the last X seconds to share on social media could be marketing gold.

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