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Web Developer Hyper

I researched your question. Since your project is using Next.js, how about starting with R3F simply? And if you want to create a more complex animation, add GSAP later? Here is a sample with detail comment that AI made.↓😎

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React Three Fiber (hover, click, drag, rotate)

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Aryan Choudhary

That makes a lot of sense, starting simple with R3F definitely will help me understand how the mesh and events behave.

In my case though, the orb is meant to move across sections with scroll, change scale, and rotate as part of the page flow, so I think GSAP (especially ScrollTrigger) might be unavoidable for the timeline side of things.

I’m planning to let R3F own the object and interaction, and use GSAP just to drive transforms via refs. If you’ve seen any good patterns for mixing the two cleanly, I’d love to learn more.

Really appreciate you taking the time to research and share a sample, this helped me clarify the direction a lot. 🙏

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Sure. I didn't have time yesterday, but I will make r3f + GSAP sample and post it in this comment. So, don't miss it.😀

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I failed to make R3F + GSAP animation at once.😅 So, I first made only GSAP (ScrollTrigger) CodePen sample with detail comments for learning. I'll get back to you after I make R3F + GSAP.
GSAP ScrollTrigger official doc. ↓
gsap.com/docs/v3/Plugins/ScrollTri...

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GSAP (ScrollTrigger)

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Aryan Choudhary

Wow this is amazing! This will be very helpful for me to understand and implement my own animation. I am very grateful for your continued guidance. Thank you very much.

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First, I added R3F to GSAP (ScrollTrigger) CodePen sample with detail comments for better understanding.🖊️↓↓

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R3F + GSAP (ScrollTrigger)

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Next, I added Drug and Hover to R3F + GSAP (ScrollTrigger) CodePen sample with detail comments.✒️↓↓

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Web Developer Hyper

R3F + GSAP (ScrollTrigger) + Drag, Hover

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Aryan Choudhary

This is honestly exactly what I was missing, seeing how GSAP and R3F can be wired together cleanly makes things click for me.
Thank you so much for taking the time to break this down and share examples. I’m going to try implementing this in my orb animation and I’ll definitely share an update once I get it working.

Really appreciate your continued help 🙏

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Your welcome! I also learned a lot too. GSAP ScrollTrigger looks useful for many scenes. I'm thinking to add it to my website creating now. I would like to learn more about 2D/3D animation, React, Next.js, and others. Let's make something fun together next time.😄

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Aryan Choudhary

Of course! Looking forward to learning together😄