Missing something obvious with MorphSVG?

[samuelhigginson]

Hey there 👋

 

Not much to this one really.. Just getting started and with MorphSVG and I can't figure out what I'm missing.

Any help pointing out the obvious would be great.

 

Cheers

See the Pen jOqqLVB by samuelhigginson (@samuelhigginson) on CodePen

[PointC]

Just need to convert that <rect> to a path. 

 

MorphSVGPlugin.convertToPath("rect");

https://greensock.com/docs/v3/Plugins/MorphSVGPlugin/static.convertToPath()

 

Happy tweening.

 

[samuelhigginson]

Well hot dog. 

Right under my nose.

Thanks a bunch Craig. 

🤝

[PointC]

You're very welcome.

 

Thanks for supporting the platform with your Club membership. It's greatly appreciated.

[GreenSock]

Yep, Craig is right. Also...

1. Don't use percentage-based widths/heights on that <rect> in order to make it cleanly convertible. Your viewBox is set to 1920x1302, so just use those values. 
2. Your end shape is way off the bottom of your viewBox. I assume you didn't mean to do that(?) It's how your artwork is built - it has nothing to do with GSAP. 
3. It's probably a good idea to get in the habit of registering the plugins you use. GSAP tries to automatically do it for you when it can, but in some cases that's impossible (hence the good habit to do it yourself). 

Here's a fork of your demo where I slowed down the morph quite a bit and used a different ease so you can notice what's going on better: 

See the Pen 71551d04da7a6959baf08752b3da6f89?editors=0010 by GreenSock (@GreenSock) on CodePen

[samuelhigginson]

Oh yeah!

 

What's that guy doing way down there..

Must have gooped on the conversion somehow.

 

See the Pen YzqqOvK by samuelhigginson (@samuelhigginson) on CodePen

 

Thanks for the help fellas!

🤝