I want to animate the SVG path. I have the same points with the same bezier settings. When I move 2 points to the rectangle center, the animation is jumpy and not smooth.
I found that if these points aren't initially at the straight path, so the animation is smooth! It looks like a bug(
Please take a look at the code below that demonstrates the issue or check it at jsfiddle
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Jumpy animation
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<p>Smooth animation</p>
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</svg><p>How to create smooth animation that starts at the same point as the first rectangle? </p>
I found that when dragging nodes in the vector editor, the type of nodes changes
Therefore, smooth animation is not obtained even if the number of node points is equal in the initial and final paths of the shape.
It remained to solve the problem of how to prevent the type node points from changing when dragging.
I found that most often the type of automatically smoothed points changes to other types of node points
Therefore, I tried to avoid using this type of node points.
I first created a rectangle with concave sides and then transformed these sides into straight lines.
With this technique, the type of node points did not change and the animation became smooth.
<p>Smooth animation</p>
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