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Hi,

 

I've created this little

See the Pen kqoeu by omnider (@omnider) on CodePen

 to demonstrate what my problem is. Is there any chance to make the animation smoother? Now you can clearly see the image going from pixel to pixel .. is there any way to do some sort of subpixel animation? So far I've tried this, the same with x/y, turning off the autoRound plugin, none of which seems to do it any good.

 

Any ideas would are appreciated :) Cheers

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The browsers force "top" and "left" values to get rounded, so they'll only land on whole pixels even if GSAP is setting the values with precise decimals. Some browsers also apply rounding to 2D transforms as well. However, if you kick things into 3D, it can (in many browsers) offload things to the GPU in a way that allows sub-pixel rendering.

 

You could set a z property to something like 0.01 or recent versions of GSAP have a "force3D" boolean that you can set. Here's a revised codepen that looks smoother at least in webkit browsers:

http://codepen.io/GreenSock/pen/e8caea66998087e88d25deb2ed6096b8

 

Firefox appears to still force some rounding though, so this isn't a perfect fix in all scenarios (I don't think there is such a thing).

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You could set a z property to something like 0.01 or recent versions of GSAP have a "force3D" boolean that you can set.

 

Perfect! I tried setting translateZ in CSS but naturally that didn't work as 2D transforms in GSAP use the matrix syntax, not translate3d.

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