Ohai!

Well, as the title says, I'd like to see a feature in osu! that allows to animate EVERY object in skins (also, add a toggle to options to enable/disable that in your skin ofc).
Why this?

Well, on the one hand I am a giantic fan of animated stuff (yes, also for skin elements, if not overdone), on the other it gives people a lot of new possibilities in skinning - imagine a blurring, glaring and size-variating sun as a cursor or structure-shifting approachcircles; of course, many people will find this "disturbing" since the majority already deletes all BGs, skins and vids (got'ya) but for people like me and skinners in general that'd be a totally nice feature which many people would appreciate.

To keep it short: Enable animationing (as it is for healthbar, followpoints etc.) for all skin-elements and add a toggle for that to options-tab in client.


What do you people think of that idea?
Would you appreciate (and use) it?

Especially since this feature isn't 100% necessary, you have my support though, I wouldn't mind if this got implemented, would freshen up skinning a bit, and also cause the appearence of tons of game crashing skins. Anyone making a skin like this should put up a fair warning in the thread, especially since you can't just "turn things off" in skins without manually handling them.

It would make osu! more lag than usual then :<
But, support if there is toggle ofc.

It's meant to have a toggle to "disable aditional animated game objects" in options-tab of client, similar to the "enable background video"-one.

Please not.

Any reason?
Since you would be able to disable it, there'd be no force on it.

Not sure I'd want this forced on me in beatmaps too often but I could totally see myself using it for a personal skin sometime.

Having a separate "click" animation for the cursor would be nice too. I definitely have a motive for this one.

I was at school, so didn't had time.
So why not.. Some skins are already animated, especially something like the HP-Bar.

As example, the Higurashi Skin. HP-Bar is animated.
Also my Skin got a animated Slider follow Circle. And a animated Menu-Back Image.

So it is not really neccessary to add this because this is more or less already possible.
Some things aren't ready to animated, if I'm not wrong. But mostly is possible to animated just with Pictures.
If I talk about the wrong topic, never mind then.

These things aren't everytime animated. I don't see (as example) that the HP-Bar of the default skin is animated.

Ninja Edit: At the End some people will remove the skin anyway, because it is annoying.
I am honest about this, because I also do this in rare case.

I support menu elements to be animated. Gameplay ones are so-so because some could disrupt the gameplay itself, plus a little more stress on low-end pcs adding up with the storyboard load. Also, hitcircle do not stay for long time in screen, so animating would either use a little number of frames or barely noticeable. Approach circle is obviously a no-no.

Spinner background? Yeah. Circle? Maybe...
Pause and fail screen would be lovely too.

..more lag and distractions? Let's just hope nobody's ever going to use an animated skin as default in a ranked beatmap.

and I don't see how it could be applied to EVERY single skinable element. That's be awful.

The only skinable elements that I'd see work well would be combo burst, count, menu buttons, pause buttons, play skip, play warning, ranks (+ any other ranking element) and section fail/pass.

Shapeshifting hitcircle changing from a circle to a triangle to a square and back to a circle!
YES!

wat lol

Conclusion? Not necessarily.

I approve of this, nonetheless.