React Explosion

[anthonygreco 54 Likes (Contributor)]

Hi all,

 

Been working on an explosion component in React and ran across the

See the Pen VjPaLO by jscottsmith (@jscottsmith) on CodePen

on Codepen. Excellent GSAP work there. Then I forked that and tweaked it a bit to what I was aiming for in

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. So far, so good. Then I started integrating this with React and found that I had to do things a bit different due to the way React works. After a bit of mucking around I feel like I've got things at least set up right but I'm encountering a peculiar outcome I'm wondering if anyone could assist with. I'm not sure if my issue lies in React, GSAP, or possibly even the layout with CSS.

 

Here's the

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pen I'm working on (the main Codepen URL on this post). It appears as if everything seems to be working aside from the Physics2DPlugin.

 

Anyone have any thoughts?

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[Carl 9,066 Likes (Superhero)]

Hi Anthony,

 

nice demo.

 

I know nothing of react but it appears your values may need to be altered. I hardcoded gravity and friction and it seems the physics stuff works:

 

http://codepen.io/GreenSock/pen/jrJjGb?editors=0010

[anthonygreco 54 Likes (Contributor)]

My Hero. 

 

Turns out I simply wasn't passing the props from the Explosion component to the SpriteContainer component and then further down to the Sprite component. I updated the pen and all appears to be working as expected now.

 

Thanks Carl!

[Carl 9,066 Likes (Superhero)]

Glad I could help. Going into it I wasn't so sure