Using Draggable Plugin for Horizontal Scroll on WebGL Image Gallery

[Shaban Iddrisu™]

Hello People!

I hope you are doing well.

I have been working on this project using Three.js to render WebGl images, in other words, merging HTML with WebGL.
The effect is pretty simple and I have successfully hooked it to window.scrollX to achieve horizontal scroll.

Now the challenge is, I am not able to hook this to GSAP's Draggable Plugin to achieve the same however by dragging.

I would be very grateful if anyone can help me out thoroughly.

Thank you!

See the Pen ExZGXvp?editors=0010 by shaban-iddrisu (@shaban-iddrisu) on CodePen.

[OSUblake]

Hey @Shaban Iddrisu™

 

Love seeing shaders!!!

 

Are you planning on replacing the horizontal scroll with draggable? I ask this because not everyone can scroll horizontally, i.e. people who use a mouse. 

 

Technically you can scroll horizontally by holding the shift button while scrolling with the mouse wheel, but most people don't know that.

 

 

 

[Shaban Iddrisu™]

Hello @OSUblake

Thank you for the swift response.

Yes, I will like to replace this with Draggable. This way everyone can simple click and drag to enjoy the effect I am trying to achieve.

Thank you very much.

[OSUblake]

Cool! I'll update your pen in a few. 

 

While you're waiting, here is the strategy I use for stuff like that. I use a "hidden" proxy element for the draggable, then apply the changes from that proxy element to something else, like a WebGL animation.

 

Just an example. Uses are very old version of Angular.

 

See the Pen 5f0a77404087e565567cfb3870f0c2b6 by osublake (@osublake) on CodePen.

 

 

 

 

[Shaban Iddrisu™]

@OSUblake

Thank you for taking the time to do this for me. 
It was great of you thinking to keep me informed and busy until you update my pin.

Respect!

[Shaban Iddrisu™]

Hello @OSUblake

I hope you are well.
This is a courtesy follow up about my petition.
Do you think you will be able to help me find a solution today..?

Thank you!

[OSUblake]

Hey, sorry about that. Had some other stuff come up that I needed to finish first, but I'm working on this right now.

[OSUblake]

Here's a start. Needs a little bit of fine tuning. It gets a little jittery with small changes.

 

See the Pen f8af01af2eae2cb07bf3b65d3c6a6cb9 by osublake (@osublake) on CodePen.

 

[Shaban Iddrisu™]

@OSUblake

Thank you very much. I am very grateful.

I will go check it out now and try to understand how you've implemented it.
Thank you once again.