GSAP scrolltrigger / lottie animation
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Hey laythemers,
I just tried to work with GSAP framework and the Scrolltrigger plugin and it works fine so far.
But I fail to run a lottie animation with the Scrolltrigger plugin.GSAP Docs provide a little helper function for this, which I used:
function LottieScrollTrigger(vars) { let playhead = { frame: 0 }, target = gsap.utils.toArray(vars.target)[0], speeds = { slow: "+=2000", medium: "+=1000", fast: "+=500" }, st = { trigger: target, pin: true, start: "top top", end: speeds[vars.speed] || "+=1000", scrub: 1 }, ctx = gsap.context && gsap.context(), animation = lottie.loadAnimation({ container: target, renderer: vars.renderer || "svg", loop: false, autoplay: false, path: vars.path, rendererSettings: vars.rendererSettings || { preserveAspectRatio: 'xMidYMid slice' } }); for (let p in vars) { // let users override the ScrollTrigger defaults st[p] = vars[p]; } animation.addEventListener("DOMLoaded", function () { let createTween = function () { animation.frameTween = gsap.to(playhead, { frame: animation.totalFrames - 1, ease: "none", onUpdate: () => animation.goToAndStop(playhead.frame, true), scrollTrigger: st }); return () => animation.destroy && animation.destroy(); }; ctx && ctx.add ? ctx.add(createTween) : createTween(); // in case there are any other ScrollTriggers on the page and the loading of this Lottie asset caused layout changes ScrollTrigger.sort(); ScrollTrigger.refresh(); }); return animation; }
I deactivated lazyloading, all kind of transition, and activated compatibility mode. I think it has something to do with the addEventListener "DOMloaded"? But I can't get my head around this. Anybody a hint to solve this?
Cheers
Felix -
Ok I just figured it out myself. For everyone having the same issue: I haven't loaded the lottie web framework, but only the lottie player. So far I only embedded lottie animations via the player and didn't know I need the framework :)
So you just need to load the web framework instead of the player in your "Custom CSS & HTML" -> "Custom <head> content" Tab:
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lottie-web/5.12.1/lottie.min.js"></script>
Cheers!
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nice! i see more and more people wanting to use lottie mmh
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