Can I create inertia like effect without InertiaPlugin?

[Sharath Lingam]

Can I create inertia like effect without InertiaPlugin, with only by using free plugins?

[mvaneijgen]

Hi @Sharath Lingam welcome to the forum!

 

Sure you can, but the question is how much time do you have and what is your skill level? The beauty of GSAP is you can build anything you like! So there is probably a way with the tools GSAP gives you can build your own inertia logic, but that means you also have to do all the debugging and all the trouble shooting your self, so the question becomes how much time do you want to spend figuring this out? 

 

Our reply will be "just use the inertia plugin, there is a lot of time spend figuring it all out, so that you don't have to!". Your question feels a bit like asking a carpenter if you can borrow all their professional tools, but without their tools they can't do their job...

 

But again feel free to roll your own logic, there is nothing wrong with a bit of coding and figuring things out by your self. In theory inertia is just animating something and slowly getting to a 0 value that feels correct, but I think when you do go the roll your own route you'll come across a lot of hurdles that will take a lot to figure out. Hope it helps and happy tweening! 

 

 

 

 

[Sharath Lingam]

Pleased to meet you @mvaneijgen, I'm a Jr. SWE who is now doing a R&D(Research and Development) on figuring out the tech stack that can provide me huge advantage of animating our company's site and it's under development so we have plenty of time to do it. And so provided the design from our company I found a reference https://www.anyways.co/ footer, in which they have inertial effects. I am trying to achieve it but when I glanced through the GSAP docs I found that inertial effect is a club plugin. Also sorry for the less information which I gave you before.

[GreenSock]

Hi @Sharath Lingam - welcome to the GSAP forums!

 

I glanced at that link you provided, and I'm not really sure what effect you thought required inertia. 🤷‍♂️

 

Inertia is more like for something that has a dynamic speed, often based on user interaction (like drag-flicking), helping it glide to a stop naturally. 

 

If you need help with a particular effect, feel free to create a minimal demo showing us your attempt.

 

Please also keep in mind that Club GSAP provides the funding mechanism that makes all of what we do possible. So it feels a little odd for you to pop into our forums that we invest time in for free, asking us to burn time helping you to find a way NOT to join Club GSAP which is the very thing that pays for our time. 🫣 Hopefully you'll find that the membership fee more than pays for itself in a single project. Think about how much you bill for your time, how many hours it'd take to recreate what the bonus plugins do for you, and I bet you'd spend 10x more by trying to do it all on your own. But please don't join Club GSAP if you don't see incredible value there. 👍

 

Good luck with the project and research.