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[ScrollTrigger] How to keep element pinned after end of scroll trigger

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I made that pen : i want my 2nd half of my cat to go at the top, meet the first half and then go to the left of the screen and stay here. But I don't really know how to keep the 2nd part of my cat pinned after the end of scroll trigger evenement.

 

Does anyone know how to do that ? Thank you a lot ;) 

 

(My first solution was to put the end of the trigger far far away the start :) it kinda works but when i reverse scroll, the reverse animation starts immediately and it's not what i want :( )

See the Pen jOYMreO by alain-nobilito (@alain-nobilito) on CodePen

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Hello Alain,

 

Here's how I would approach that task:

 

create two different ScrollTriggers:

  • one that only handles the tweening for whatever scroll-length you want it to be scrubbed
  • and one that only handles the pinning of that second cat, extended to last over the whole length of the page-scroll

 

 

See the Pen WNdRwBX by akapowl (@akapowl) on CodePen

 

 

 

Some more notes on that:

  • avoid tweening on the element you use as a trigger if your tweens are going to change the dimensions of that element - this will likely throw things off with the start/end calculations of ScrollTrigger. Instead you could use the .cat as the trigger and tween on the img inside.
     
  • Scrub and toggleActions don't work side by side - they are different ways for ScrollTrigger to control a connected tween. So if you set both, scrub will always take the control over the tween/timeline connected.
     
  • I made a couple of changes to the HTML markup / CSS styling of things for my example here, as it made things a bit more concise (for me) - and having some solid base layout is one of the most important things for scrollbased animations in particular.

 

On a different note:

You will notice, when scrolling down and then back up to the top (even in a rather usual speed), that the scrolling back into place of the 2nd cat will start before the tweens/timeline attached to the ScrollTrigger have finished. That is because of the scrub being set to 1, so it will take the tweens/timeline 1 econd to catch up to the actual scroll-position.

 

If you want it to be smooth like that but still synced, you would have to use a 'scrub: true' alongside some sort of smooth-scrolling. Here is that same example with the ScrollTrigger-native smoothScroll() helper function included, to show the difference. You can find that helper function in the .scrollerProxy() docs (1st example in there).

 

I hope all this will help a bit.

 

See the Pen oNpBLXX by akapowl (@akapowl) on CodePen

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WOW, very nice. Thank you a lot.

 

It will help me a lot : it's exactly what i need.

I'm going to dive into your code to understand deeper the usage of ScrollTrigger.

 

Again, thanks a lot for your detailed answer ;) 

 

(oh, and sorry if my english is not perfect : i try my best 😋)

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