For all us animators out there, there's some great news. Webflow decided to make GSAP completely free, including commercial projects. Here's the announcement: all the plugins previously paywalled under the Greensocks Club license are now free to use. Take care, and have a great Labor Day!
There’s seems to be a clause in the terms of service so it’s not truly free. They are limiting the use of GSAP as the engine for a GUI driven webflow like builder or probably other animation software. So basically you can use it in code. You can use it with some simple GuI helpers but you can’t build a full timeline based application with it. at least that’s how I understand it and there is some ambiguity in there, making it hard to distinguish at what point you’re using too much gooey with the library. That’s pretty Sad but on the other hand, there are other libraries like anime just that don’t have that limitation and are more modern.
I've looked on the forums for an example file with morphSVG in a function and haven't found one that has an active link. Can someone please post an example file with a function that is morphing from one SVG to another. I've made transform animations work with gsap, but I can't seem to get the morphSVG to work. Please and thank you!
If you drag a SVG onto the hype stage it is only used as a background image and not actually “present” as addressable markup. Either use the limited Vector tool and its morphing capabilities…. or you can “stuff” some actual SVG code into the inner HTML of a rectangle (Div). Hence, you need todo a workaround to address the shortcomings of Hypes native missing SVG support. Once you have an SVG in place you can use MorphSVG from GSAP.
I tried stuffing the SVG…it didn’t work, I double checked the names and made sure the syntax matched. Nothing worked. That’s why I was hoping for a simple project that I could deconstruct to figure out what I was missing…I even went through the SVG markup to look for things that were different there…I spent a lot of time on the gsap site as well…finally I gave up and decided to ask for help🙃…