I want to add this animation when an enemy dies in my game, but I have no idea how to do it, since it seems Unity doesn’t handles gifs at all.
Any ideas?
Unity is not supporting gif. You can use sprite animation .
1.Use Unity 4 version or above
2.Goto main menu and select GameObject > Create Other > Sprite
3.Select the image to make animation .
4.Goto Inspector
4a. Texture type >Sprite
4b. Sprite mode > mutliple
4c. Select Sprite Editor > Slice > Type >Grid
4d. Pixel size ,adjust to suitable size , > Slice
5.Goto Main menu > Window >Animation
6.Select the sprite object
7.Select Animation window >Add Curve >Save
8.Select sprite image > add each slice in suitable Animation frame (0:0 ,0:10,0:20 etc)
for more details please check out :
This tutorial gives the idea about sprite and sprite animation.
Use ezgif.com to extract your gif into frames , then you can simply use these frames to create animation in unity
Try making the .png as a particle, and assign the particles to appear when the player dies.