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Hi! Thank you so much for this incredibly valuable forum. I've learned a lot lurking already. I am having trouble animating an alternating entrance point based on class name. In my example all 3 images "reveal" from left to right, but I'd like them to alternate so the images ON the right reveal from the right. Each block has a class of either "reveal-image-left" or "reveal-image-right" that could be leveraged instead if the "reveal-image" selector that's being used across all 3 images now. (The HTML is identical for each block with the alternating positioning done with Flexbox) I cannot for the life of me figure this out and I'm not fluent enough in GSAP/Js to get this over the finish line. Many thanks for your help!

Hi All! First of all I want to say Thanks for the magnificent product for animation. It saves so much time which we can spend on family :) I will be appropriate for your help in beautifying my code, if it is possible. I'm just start using GSAP and don't know if my code is optimized and pretty enough. But it works! const tl = gsap.timeline({ repeat: -1, repeatDelay: 2 }); gsap.to(".path", 50, { strokeDashoffset: -1000, ease: 'none', repeat: -1, }); gsap.set(".plane", { xPercent: -50, yPercent: -50, transformOrigin: '50% 50%', scale: 0.7, autoAlpha: 0, }); tl.to(".plane", { duration: 1, autoAlpha: 1, }) .to(".plane", { duration: 7, ease: 'none', motionPath: { align: ".path", path: ".path", autoRotate: true, curviness: 0.5, }, }, '-=1' ) .to(".plane", { duration: 3, scale: 0 }, '-=2') .to(".pin", { duration: 1, scale: 1.1, skewX: -10, rotate: 20, transformOrigin: '50% 100%', }, '-=2' ) .to(".pin", { duration: 1.5, scale: 1, skewX: 0, rotate: 0, transformOrigin: '50% 100%', ease: 'elastic.out(1.5, 0.2)', }, '-=1' ); How it looks?

Hi Community, iam new in GreenSock GSAP and my question is maybe fixed in few seconds. I have a timeline, so that every animations starts with the end of the previous, this all works perfectly. Now i want to give the class .services a scrolltrigger so that the animation start when the element is in the viewport - i implemented in the timeline, but i dont know if this is correct or how i can do this. All approaches are welcome - if you can tell me whats the best solution for that, it would be great. Thanks in forward Martin

Hey guys I have a question and I wanted to know if this is possible to do. I have a timeline with a ScrollTrigger gsap.timeline({ scrollTrigger: { trigger: element, scrub: 0.5, start: 'top bottom-=15%', markers: true } }) .to(element, {yPercent: -100}) .from($(element).find('.heading'), {yPercent: 20}, '<') .from($(element).find('.description'), {yPercent: 20}, '<') .fromTo($(element).find('.svg-path'), {drawSVG: "0"}, {duration: 1, drawSVG: "100%"}) .to(element, {opacity: 0}, '>-0.2') On this timeline I have multiple tweens, one of those is a drawSVG, but I don't want that svg animation to be attached to the scroll, so basically I just want the animation to appears once the svg is on the viewport. It's there a way to separate that single tween from the ScrollTrigger scrub? Or do I have to make another ScrollTrigger just for that drawSVG animation?

I have a Timeline working fine on a hierarchical tree (DOM document) in which selected classes of SVG elements are animated. However, the tree is collapsible, and when a node is collapsed, the element that is animated in that node is removed from the DOM. That's Ok, no problem. But when that node is expanded again via a mouse click on its parent, the element gets added again to the DOM, but the Timeline does not, of course, act upon the newly-created element to animate it. Is there a way to make the Timeline aware of elements that are dynamically created and whose class does fit the Timeline target parameter? I am hoping that I won't need to actually create a new Timeline to animate these dynamically created elements - for then I would have multiple Timelines targeting the same class of elements, and that seems problematic to me. I have tried a number of things to solve the issue, but to no avail. I either get what appears to be multiple instances of the Timeline colliding with each other, or else new elements animating as desired while existing elements (that have not been disturbed) not animating at all after some other node has been dynamically created.

Hey guys, I have an issue an I'm looking for help. I have a page that has a parallax effect in all of the sections of a page whenever the user scrolls. So there are this black text blocks that are separated but whenever you scroll one of the blocks moves up to be next to the one on top, the issue is that this is causing a blank space between sections of the page. I want to know if there is a way, whenever the black text block moves up, to make the sections below move up as well, basically follow that text block whenever it goes up. I try this by just using a yPercent on the sections below, but is is just causing a blank space to be left on the bottom of the page Here is a link of how the animation should work https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsKinyuID5buWKhQllRhE1Bmc6el5GTX/view and I left a codepen with the basic markup of my current pate. Any help would be appreciated.

I don't have a codepen but basically what i want to achieve is this: I have some data loading in the background, and i'm using GSAP3 to create a timeline that's animating an svg infinitly, it's a preload animation basically. What i want to do is that when the data is loaded, i want to pause the current timeline object, animate it until the progress is 1, and then when the animation is completely finished i want to create another animation to smoothly animate the preloader out of the screen and then show the loaded data. I saw an example of this in GSAP2 using TweenMax where: you pass the tweenmax object into the to() method, animate the progress property and then assign a callback function to the onComplete() property to kill the timeline object, but that doesn't seem to work in GSAP3, the svg abruptly jumps to the it's final state (where the progress is equel to 1) instead of animating to it. Can you please tell me how can i achieve this? I can't seem to find any example of this in GSAP3. Thanks in advance!

Hi Guys, Thanks for this awesome gsap lib again. I'm still learning it but the library is really powerful and quite fun to explore. I need some help with the animation where my container gets pinned on screen and then the image is horizontally moved with the scrolling. This part works fine in the codepen above. What I need with this is for the text in the adjacent container to smoothly show hide along with this image movement. Obviously the number of texts will be the same as the image movements so that wont be a problem. Thanks for any help in advance.

Hi everyone, I have to create pages that have 4 animations each that can be activated at the click of 4 focus points that I inserted in an svg image, the animation hides the initial text and makes the text of each focus point appear, for the first I managed the problem occurs when I have to animate the others, who have to hide both the initial text and the contents of the other focuses already seen by the user. In practice, if I click 1 it hides 2,3,4 and the initial text, if I click 2, it hides 1,3,4 and so on. I gathered to also set the reverse function so that if I double click on a focus point the initial text reappears, but when I go to add the others everything overlaps. Do you have any suggestions, I mainly used #IDs maybe I need to organize better in classes ??

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Hi Guys, I am trying to create a seamless "clipMask Text Marquee", with a timeline. The tl is started (and paused) by ScrollTrigger. Basically everything works as desired, but I have trouble with resizing. The height of the text (trigger Element) is changed by a js function. After Resizing the hight, the position of the triggers become wrong. Is there a way to update them? Or is there generell a better apporach? I am not a big expert (as you guessed) and very thankful, for honest “code critique”. Furthermore I wonder, if and how I have to kill the timeline in PJAX-context. By now it works, when I kill the ScrollTrigger (before entering) the Page and call the createMarquee (after entering) again. Is this enough or is the (old and unused) Timeline (created by function) still present somewhere in memory? Sorry for my English and many thanks in advance.

I am working on a game that has timer that is animating down, it indicates how much time player has left to make their move. Gsap is animating this timer. Issue I am currently facing is that if player goes to a different browser tab gsap seems to stop animating the timer. After some research I believe this is by design and feature responsible for this is "lagSmoothing" I was able to disable this via "gsap.ticker.lagSmoothing(0)". However this disables lag smoothing for my whole app. I was trying to look similar method on "TimelineLite" that I am using for timer animation, but wasn't able to find anything. Hence this question: Can I disable lagSmoothing for single timeline as opposed whole app? Here is an example of how timeline lite is used in my app. import { TimelineLite } from 'gsap' const timeline = new TimelineLite() this.timeline.to(this, { /* animation config*/ })

As you see in codepen link the animation work but not well, when you make a scroll the red element move as normal, also the blue element works normally, but if you continue scrolling, you will arrive at to step, you can't look at the animation. I want to move it as a position fixed moving my scroll.

Hi, I am quite new to gsap. One problem I have, is that when I reverse the timeline, or just make an animation, that scales something down. It leaves the outline on the element, multible times along the path in took. This makes the animation cumpletly useless, since it looks like crap. Im sure this is a bug, and can be fixed, but how? I've linked the file below. Thanks in advance :) test.html

I'm attempting to create a fade-in parallax effect on the text as you scroll the page. So far the effect is working quite well — barring a slight hiccup that occurs every time the page is visited for the first time (and when refreshed). The element (which should have an starting opacity of 0) is clearly visible if you scroll down from the hero section into the intro section. Once it passes the scroller-start point only then it goes it 0 — causing a flash and jerk of content. Oddly, now if you were to scroll back up and down the page — it works as intended. At my wits end here. I thought fromTo properly handles the animation values before/after animating (it does seem to but not right off the bat) and immediateRender is automatically true if you use ScrollTrigger/fromTo. Not sure what else I am missing. How can I get it so it starts off after page load at 0 opacity and -20% y?

🌞🌾 hello fellow humans. feels really nice to join this awesome community. i found so much help here already. now its time to make my own first post. - - - so! i would love to get some help on positioning tweens inside a timeline as i was not able to find an elegant solution until this point. the attached image explains what i got and what i want. so i have a main tween in my timeline that has a duration of 2s. and a few others that are shorter in time. now, basically i want to dynamically align all the other tween endpoints with the main tween's endpoint. i say dynamically because tween durations will change within the website. i know that i can use the relative position parameter for this. and with absolute numbers it works beautifully: // create timeline let timeline = gsap.timeline(); // add tweens timeline.add(container.fadeOut(), 0); timeline.add(elements.fadeOut(), '-=1.2'); timeline.add(footer.fadeOut(), '-=1.4'); timeline.add(progress.reset(), '-=1.8'); but what happens if for example my footer.fadeOut() tween changes its duration to 0.8s? with my code example, the endpoints of footer.fadeOut() and container.fadeOut() are not aligned anymore. how can i dynamically change the -1.2s to -0.8s? how can i subtract the tweens own duration, relative from the timeline endpoint? and how can i do this elegantly without using tons of variables to get each tween's duration? thank you so much for taking your time. stay healthy, stay safe. jaro 🌳🍃

I dont have a codepen to show or reproduce what my large scale app does but I am using fabric.js to create animations on canvas and have multiple slides to convert it to a slideshow or video. All i can share is a small snippet of where i call the functions at certain time i.e particular card.duration (which can take decimals as well). But the next function is called before the designated absolute duration. All I want to know if timeline accepts millisecs and makes gauranteed call at that particular time! totalDuration = 0; for (let i = 0; i < cardLinkedList.length; i++) { const card = cardLinkedList[i]; timeline.call( textAnimation, [canvas, card, transition, logo], totalDuration ); totalDuration += card.duration; } timeline.play();

hi, I have a problem on ios devices with scrollTrigger, when I scroll, scroll suddenly skips or jumps, I have no idea why this happens because the code I wrote is only this. There's a video at the bottom that you can see what I mean. Thank you for your attention:) gsap.timeline({ scrollTrigger:{ trigger:'#s0', scrub:true, start:'top top', end: 'bottom -220%', pin: '#s0', } }) // .to('#photo1',{maskImage: 'linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 0%,rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 0%,rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%)'}) .to('#photo1', { opacity: 0 }); idk.mov

this.menuTimeLine = gsap.timeline({ paused: true, }); this.menuTimeLine .fromTo(this.ref.menu, { x: "-100%", }, { x: "0%", duration: this.state.open ? 0.3 : 2, ease: this.state.open ? "linear" : "expo.out", }, 0).reverse() if (this.menuTimeLine.reversed()) { this.menuTimeLine.play() } else { this.menuTimeLine.reverse() } Button.addEventListener('click', () => { if (this.menuTimeLine.reversed()) { this.menuTimeLine.play(); } else { this.menuTimeLine.reverse() } }) Update Prop or Tween value conditionally whatever it is normal gsap or gsap timeline In Gsap version 2.x.x updateTo can update tweening values or gsap props but what to do in gsap 3.x.x or Gsap vars can help in this issue ? in Codepen example dynamic ease or duration ? besause timeline is outside of onClick ?

Hi folks! I need help to implement a new timeline from tweens that are building into a loop. (btw, I use as a base this pen https://codepen.io/osublake/pen/ExPMgQq, credits to Blake Bowen) If is use a gsap.exportRoot() into a const, I have control over the timeline (but there isn't apply to use into a component) . So but I use tl.add(tween) into the loop I can't reach the same result . Also I tried with tl.add(tween, 0) but isn't work for me. Surely I'm doing something wrong, but I can't discover what, so if you can help me I will be appreciated. Thanks. 😊

Hi all. This is my first post on the forum! I was hoping for some advice with a scroll based interaction I am working on. Essentially I have a fullscreen panel, containing a video and an H1 positioned on top (in reality I think the H1 will be an SVG logo). I am looking to have the H1's position on the Yaxis adjusted as you scroll down the page, effectively going in the opposite direction to normal, and disappearing from view out the bottom of its parent container. I have built this out the best I can so far using a gsap timeline and scroll event on the window. It all works as it should, it doesn't really feel great and can be a little jerky to begin with... so my questions would be... Is my approach suitable for this ? Are there any quick wins I could make to improve it? Or should it be done another way eg. scrollTrigger ? (No idea how to do this atm) Any advice greatly appreciated. Many Thanks!

Hi, i am just getting to know gsap and i have a little problem :/. I am writting a page in gatsby and made a mobile side menu with gsap but i noticed that when the menu is opened for the first time and closed, after resizing the window, the menu doesn't change its position on the x-axis and starts sticking out. const Header = () => { const [isOpen, setIsOpen] = useState(false) const menuRef = useRef(null) const menuBtn = useRef(null) const tl = useRef() const toggleOpen = () => { setIsOpen(!isOpen) } useEffect(() => { const nav = menuRef.current const mainMenuLists = [...nav.querySelectorAll("ul:nth-of-type(1) li")] const socialLists = [...nav.querySelectorAll("ul:nth-of-type(2) li")] const btn = menuBtn.current const upLine = btn.querySelector("span:nth-of-type(1)") const centerLine = btn.querySelector("span:nth-of-type(2)") const downLine = btn.querySelector("span:nth-of-type(3)") tl.current = gsap .timeline() .to([upLine, downLine], { y: "-50%", duration: 0.3 }) .to(upLine, { duration: 0.1, rotation: 45 }, 0.2) .to(downLine, { duration: 0.1, rotation: -45 }, 0.2) .to(centerLine, { duration: 0.1, autoAlpha: 0 }, 0.2) .to(nav, { x: "0", duration: 0.5, autoAlpha: 1 }) .staggerFromTo( mainMenuLists, 1, { x: "-=15px", autoAlpha: 0 }, { x: "0", autoAlpha: 1 }, 0.2 ) .staggerFromTo( socialLists, 0.5, { y: "+=3px", autoAlpha: 0 }, { y: "0", autoAlpha: 1 }, 0.1 ) .reverse() }, []) useEffect(() => { tl.current.reversed(!isOpen) }, [isOpen]) return ( <HeaderComponent> <Logo> <AniLink path="/" hex="#333"> <LogoImg /> </AniLink> </Logo> <OpenMenuBtn ref={menuBtn} onClick={toggleOpen}> <span /> <span /> <span /> </OpenMenuBtn> <Nav menuRef={menuRef} setIsOpen={setIsOpen} /> </HeaderComponent> ) } const Nav = styled.nav` position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; transform: translateX(100%); background-color: #ccc; z-index: 99; ` const Navigation = ({ setIsOpen, menuRef}) => { return ( <Nav ref={menuRef} onClick={() => setIsOpen(false)}> ... </Nav> ) } I think i know what the problem is. Timeline is created when the component is mounted and the first time the menu is opened it pops up getting translate (0). When I close the menu, the animation returns back and gsap assigns to the translate (x), value from the start of the animation. because the animation is set to reverse (I know it's obvious) . I wonder if there is any possibility to change the value of position x only when the animation returns?(Because I can't/ i don't know how do this animation differently: D) https://ibb.co/f8Y0Tg5 short demo

Hi everybody! I have a problem configuring a menu animations. That's my 5th version. I realised the best way is to use master timeline. But, trying to put it all together, I get an unpredictable behavior. Animation for showing/hiding dimmer works great. dimmer_tl .fromTo(dimmer, {opacity: 0, display: 'block'}, {opacity: 1}) .set(js_dimmer, {display: 'block'}) .add('show') .to(dimmer, {opacity: 0, display: 'none'}) .set(js_dimmer, {display: 'none'}) .add('hide') dimmer_tl.tweenTo('show'); dimmer_tl.tweenTo('hide'); But truing to do the same with menu background doesn't work :( bg_tl .fromTo(bg, {opacity: 0, display: 'block'}, {height: 200, opacity: 1}) .add('show_list') .fromTo(bg, {opacity: 0, display: 'block'}, {height: 100, opacity: 1}) .add('show_search') .to(bg, {opacity: 0, display: 'none'}) .add('hide') bg_tl.tweenTo('show_list'); bg_tl.tweenTo('hide'); It feels like the animation on show_list is not pausing and going threw all of them bg_tl .fromTo(bg, {opacity: 0, display: 'block'}, {height: 200, opacity: 1}) .add('show_list') // .fromTo(bg, {opacity: 0, display: 'block'}, {height: 100, opacity: 1}) // .add('show_search') // .to(bg, {opacity: 0, display: 'none'}) // .add('hide') Or maybe I'm trying to reinvent the wheel and there are better practices to control? I'm glad to hear any suggestions. Thanks! P.S. Also moving mouse really fast between links play a timeline through all of them. I guess I need to add a delay somewhere but every time I do so it's just breaking apart.

So I have a simple GSAP timeline to move an element with the direction of the mouse' event: node.addEventListener("mousemove", e => { const x = e.clientX / 10; const y = e.clientY / 10; gsap.timeline() .to(blurRef.current, { yPercent: -30, x, y, duration: 1 }, 0) }) It works fine, but I want to add an infinite bounce effect which happens simultaneous to the mouse animation. I've done the bounce effect only before with pure css, but this makes GSAP stop working (mouse effect won't work). Is there a way to handle both simultaneously? Is there an equivalent for the CSS with GSAP? .blur { animation: bounce 2s infinite ease-in-out; } @keyframes bounce { 0% { transform: translateY(-10px) } 50% { transform: translateY(15px) } 100% { transform: translateY(-10px) } }

Hello Club Green Sock! I was reading about the common Scroll Trigger mistakes looking for a solution to this question. I think may be going about this the wrong way, but... I have a timeline let hardwareTimeLine = gsap.timeline({ scrollTrigger: { trigger: ".centering-container", scrub: true, pin: true, pinSpacing: true, start: "top", end: "150%" } }); hardwareTimeLine .from(".hero-header", {}) .fromTo(".animated-header", {autoAlpha: 1, top: "29%"}, {autoAlpha: 0, top: "27%"}) .fromTo(".scaling-container", {duration: 1, scaleX: 1.6, scaleY: 1.6, transformOrigin: "50% 50% 0", backgroundPosition: "center"}, {duration: 1, scaleX: .6, scaleY: .6, transformOrigin: "50% 50% 0", backgroundPosition: "center"}, "<") .fromTo(".screen-inner-1", {duration: .5, transform: "translateX(0)"}, {duration: .5, transform: "translateX(-103%)"}) .fromTo(".screen-inner-2", {duration: .5, transform: "translateX(103%)"}, {duration: .5, transform: "translateX(0)"}, "<") .from(".icons-tray", {y: 150, autoAlpha: 0}); and I was wondering if there was a way to put a tween inside the timeline that is attached to the Scroll Trigger at the very end of my last ".from", if that makes sense? I tried .tweenTo() but that didn't seem to give the effect I am searching for. For example (see my codepen, you may need to look it at on full screen) I would like the grey box (".icons-tray") to tween up on it's own and only be started by the scroll trigger. Can anyone point me in the right direction of the way to approach this effect or have a working demo that shows this? Thank you so much!!!