swampthang

Thanks, Carl. Yea, I'm gonna have to provide options for the user to have SVGs come in from off-screen and do other animations as well. It's gonna be a little tricky to get everything to cooperate. There's a point at which some things just don't make sense like flying in a drawSVG function.

Thought I'd share a couple of CodePen's that might help someone. I was charged with coming up with something that would allow a user to dynamically load an SVG into a container and then draw it using drawSVG. (Our organization got the Business Green membership so we wanted to get all the goodie we could get out of it!) As you know, not all SVGs are alike and we didn't have the convenience of being able to go into every SVG and add class names. So, first I needed something that would snag an svg file in an img tag and replace it with the inline version. I decided to use this (won't go into the process of doing that but it works): https://www.npmjs.com/package/inline-svg Then I needed a script that would parse through the lines, paths, etc to see what was there and draw the SVG. I wrote a really quick function that will do that and added a couple of bonus functions (center on the screen and shake) for good measure. Hope that helps someone who might have the same issues at least get started.

Thanks, Carl. I'm writing this as an electron application (from the github folks) - in case others are interested in seeing this quest chronicled, I have been looking at these 2 options: Electron Recorder CCapture.js CCapture is a canvas-based library so, of course, would require canvas but not sure yet if Electron Recorder would allow recording from a specific application. Will keep this updated as I go and hopefully find a good solution.

I'm working on a project where we are creating a tool as a sort of helper app that we can use to create an animation using HTML5/JS GSAP (not Flash version) and then export the animation with transparency for use on the web as a standalone file such as animated GIF, MOV or MP4 as a transparent layer in a video editing program. The animation tool will focus on the goodies from the DrawSVG, MorphSVG and SplitText plugins. So, obviously we would chain together a bunch of GSAP scripts and then try to capture the completed animation playing inside a specific container using some sort of rendering process that gets converted into the above mentioned filetypes. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this? I am working in a Node.js environment so will have all that's possible in Node available to me including file system access. I am hoping someone has already created an export tool that can be plugged in to our helper application. Thanks in advance!