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Hi everyone, just started with GSAP and it looks great!

 

I'm posting here to ask for help. I'm currently aiming for this animation: (space particles)

https://youtu.be/4QOuixmYmhU

 

I'm stuck on being able to like, infinitely spawn particles/stars after the old ones go behind the page or reach their maximum Z position, and garbage collect them.

 

Also, I'm having blur issues when Z position is at a high value. Is this a browser issue? If yes, what are the alternatives? Would scale be okay? I tried scaling but unable to achieve the effect on the video I posted.

 

Guys, your help is very appreciated!

 

Thank you

See the Pen LGKEXB by christianztamayo (@christianztamayo) on CodePen

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Hi and welcome to the GreenSock forums,

 

Thanks for creating the demo.

 

The technique we use on our speed test is to create a tween for each dot, when each tween completes it calls the same tween-creating function which gives the dot a new position and then tweens it again and this will happen recursively. You get a new tween each time a tween ends.

 

Here is how I changed your demo:

 

http://codepen.io/GreenSock/pen/vLqLeV?editors=0010

 

The old tweens will be garbage collected. It's not something you need to worry about.

However if you don't need a lot of randomness you could just tell each of your 500 tweens to repeat with repeat:-1.

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regarding the blur in order to make your dots bigger when the z increases the browser needs to stretch pixels. The best way around this is to scale objects and create the dots at their largest size and scale them from a scale of 0 to a scale of 1. 

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