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Stagger a zipper effect

celli test
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Hi, I am trying to achieve an effect with text so that the characters are staggered, which is easily accomplished.

 

But I want to ONLY EFFECT every other character to animate it's Y position. Then I would create another stagger effect to animate the remaining characters (every other letter that is left) and animate their Y positions in the opposite direction -- so it's sort of a zipper effect.

 

Is there a way to stagger only every other character, and then stagger every character that remains ?

 

My CodePen only shows all characters Y positions animating from the same starting point.

See the Pen CgBsK by celli (@celli) on CodePen

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Thanks Jamie,

 

Sounds simple. A few questions:

Do I need to actually place the letters in each array / What if there are repeating letters

var i = 0, odd = ["T", "E"], even = ["H", "B"];
while (i < chars.length) {
  even.push(chars[i++]);
  if (i < chars.length) odd.push(chars[i++]);
}

And I tried adding this but I didn't get any results, Do I then need to alter my 'staggerFrom' ?

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