Help wanted | How can I achieve this?

[daguttierrez]

👋 Hi hi, I'm looking forward to getting direction on achieving this animation. 

https://ibb.co/6F6k7wv

Thanks in advance.

 

[Trapti]

Hi, 

 

Create SVG for various colored strips and then animate them using GSAP. 

[Rodrigo]

Hi,

 

@PointC has a few good examples about this:

See the Pen rNeQNgw by PointC (@PointC) on CodePen

 

See the Pen BaPyQdg by PointC (@PointC) on CodePen

 

Hopefully this helps.

Happy Tweening!

[daguttierrez]

I think this provides a super good guide. Thanks for the ideas. I'm a bit stuck on how I can get the tip of the arrow rotating. So instead of having a square or circle, a complex path instead. 

[GSAP Helper]

It's pretty tough to troubleshoot without a minimal demo - the issue could be caused by CSS, markup, a third party library, your browser, an external script that's totally unrelated to GSAP, etc. Would you please provide a very simple CodePen or Stackblitz that demonstrates the issue? 

 

Please don't include your whole project. Just some colored <div> elements and the GSAP code is best. See if you can recreate the issue with as few dependancies as possible. If not, incrementally add code bit by bit until it breaks. Usually people solve their own issues during this process! If not, then at least we have a reduced test case which greatly increases your chances of getting a relevant answer.

 

Here's a starter CodePen that loads all the plugins. Just click "fork" at the bottom right and make your minimal demo: 

See the Pen aYYOdN by GreenSock (@GreenSock) on CodePen

 

Using a framework/library like React, Vue, Next, etc.? 

CodePen isn't always ideal for these tools, so here are some Stackblitz starter templates that you can fork and import the gsap-trial NPM package for using any of the bonus plugins: 

• React (please read this article!)
• Next
• Svelte
• Sveltekit
• Vue
• Nuxt

 

Please share the StackBlitz link directly to the file in question (where you've put the GSAP code) so we don't need to hunt through all the files. 

 

Once we see an isolated demo, we'll do our best to jump in and help with your GSAP-specific questions. 

[daguttierrez]

This is what I've gotten so far. The missing piece is that I need the arrow to take the curve in a more natural way

See the Pen oNmvBRb by daguttierrez (@daguttierrez) on CodePen

[Rodrigo]

Hi,

 

In terms of the 90 degrees angles IDK how feasible is that without some custom logic. That basically would require to stop the motion tween there, smoothly rotate the arrow, then animate the rest of the path and finally rotate the arrow again.

 

The simplest way I can think about is to split the path you're passing to the MotionPath plugin into two parts. One that has the horizontal and curve sections and a second that has only the vertical straight line. With that you can create a timeline that first moves the arrow in the horizontal straight lines and the curve at the right, then rotates, moves up and then rotates again. Of course everything should have ease: "none" in order to give a seamless integration. Something like this:

See the Pen JjxoXjR by GreenSock (@GreenSock) on CodePen

 

Hopefully this helps.

Happy Tweening!