[Image banner] Add ambient movement to background #2342

kjellr · 2023-02-28T18:02:54Z

PR Summary:

Adds an option for ambient animation to the Image Banner section's background image.

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Why are these changes introduced?

Closes #2339.

What approach did you take?

This implements a new dropdown menu as shown in the ticket. When "Ambient movement" is selected, a CSS class is applied to the media elements within the Image Banner, triggering a long-duration CSS animation that slowly moves the image around within its frame. The CSS for this is defined in base.css so that we can theoretically reuse it for the Image with Text (#2340) and Slideshow (#2341) sections.

As this feature is purely aesthetic, it supports the visitor's prefers-reduced-motion preference.

Visual impact on existing themes

None, this is an optional setting that only adds new functionality.

Testing steps/scenarios

Visit the demo store.
Add and select an Image Banner.
Look for the new "Image behavior" dropdown underneath the new "Animations" header in the sidebar.
Select "Ambient movement" from that dropdown.
Add various images, verify that they appear as expected.
Try various breakpoints, verify that they appear as expected.

Checklist

Added PR summary for release notes
Requested review from UX (Only for changes that are affecting the experience or perceivable visual details)
Created a ticket for the help.shopify.com documentation team about updates to theme settings. (Internal-only task)
Followed theme code principles
Linted with Theme Check
Tested on mobile
Tested on multiple browsers
Tested for accessibility

stufreen

Looking good - a couple minor thoughts

stufreen · 2023-03-01T17:54:16Z

assets/base.css

+
+  @keyframes animateAmbient {
+    0% { transform: rotate(0deg) translateX(1em) rotate(0deg) scale(1.2); }
+    100% { transform: rotate(360deg) translateX(1em) rotate(-360deg) scale(1.2); }


🤯 This is neat, I guess it pivots the image around clockwise with a 1em diameter?

What about doing translateX(10%) or something to ensure the translation is always relative to the image width? You could also potentially request a slightly larger image in the Liquid template to ensure no blurriness, although that would be on a section-by-section basis.

If you use translateX(10%) you could be more precise with scaling - scale(1.15) should cover it.

Yeah, that's right! It's pretty fun.

The percentage-based translate() value is a good thought, but in practice it introduces too much variability — moving an image 10% on a big desktop screen is a lot more than moving 10% on a small phone screen. Since the animation duration isn't variable, the difference in animation speed can be really drastic. 1em seemed to be a good steady value, and the 1.2 scale (while kinda random) seemed to eliminate any edges appearing in my testing.

Good point about the image size! That could be worth exploring for sure. I'll look into it later this week, but if someone else would like to beat me to it, that's totally cool.

@stufreen I pushed 4738f82 to conditionally load higher-res images when ambient is active. Can you take a look and let me know if you have a different recommendation for implementation? From what I can tell, it's working alright:

Ambient Off Ambient On

Loaded image is 2000px Loaded image is 2400px

kimberlyoleiro · 2023-03-03T16:55:58Z

Looking great so far to me! Played around with focal points and opacity. Not sure what else we could do to try to break it

melissaperreault · 2023-03-03T20:24:20Z

assets/base.css

+@media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {
+  .animate--ambient > img,
+  .animate--ambient > svg {
+    animation: animateAmbient 30s linear infinite;


It was at 40s before, had a feeling it was a little more perceivable without too much in your face. I am curious how others feel about it?

I keep going back and forth. 😄 I'll leave it at this setting for a minute and let folks weigh on whether they think it's too fast or not.

Would using the .animate--ambient selector on its own be enough here? Why do we specifically need to target img and svg elements?

We need to target the image or svg so that element can rotate around inside of its banner__media container. (We can't have the banner__media move around inside of the parent banner, because when two images are present the 50/50 split would not be preserved throughout the animation).

I could have assigned the .animate--ambient class directly to the image or svg, but I chose this path so that we can ideally use a single animate--{{ section.settings.image_behavior }} class assignment for all of the different image_behavior selections. While the ambient animation only targets the children of that, the fixed animation in #2345 does target the parent.

If there's hesitation around targeting img and svg specifically, I could assign and target a second class and target that. We don't currently assign a class to the img element in there, so doing this felt more verbose to me.

melissaperreault · 2023-03-03T22:36:28Z

sections/image-banner.liquid

@@ -294,7 +304,27 @@
    },
    {
      "type": "header",
-      "content": "t:sections.image-banner.settings.header.content"
+      "content": "t:sections.image-banner.settings.animations.content"


Mainly wondering if we should include those settings globally instead, to apply at once on the sections we would include. We would revisit the content if this is the case. Let's regroup to align! 🙏

We aligned to keep at the section level 👌

melissaperreault · 2023-03-03T22:37:22Z

Tested and works like charm! Added some point of discussion, but very excited otherwise! 🎉

stufreen

LGTM - one nit-picky suggestion

stufreen · 2023-03-07T18:51:45Z

sections/image-banner.liquid

+        if section.settings.image_behavior == 'ambient'
+          assign widths = '450, 660, 900, 1320, 1800, 2136, 2400, 3600, 7680'


The sizes property is probably the one you want to change here instead (or as well) as the widths one. It's the property that determines which width gets picked so should be scaled by 1.2 as well.

Suggestion:

{%- liquid if section.settings.image_behavior == 'ambient' assign half_width = '60vw' assign full_width = '120vw' assign stacked_sizes = '(min-width: 750px) 60vw, 120vw' assign widths = '450, 660, 900, 1320, 1800, 2136, 2400, 3600, 7680' else assign half_width = '50vw' assign full_width = '100vw' assign stacked_sizes = '(min-width: 750px) 50vw, 100vw' assign widths = '375, 550, 750, 1100, 1500, 1780, 2000, 3000, 3840' endif -%}

Then for each image:

if section.settings.image != blank and section.settings.stack_images_on_mobile assign sizes = stacked_sizes elsif section.settings.image_2 != blank assign sizes = half_width else assign sizes = full_width endif

Thanks, that makes sense! I pushed this change in 01dc560.

melissaperreault

Works well! 🚢 🚢
I tested with PNG and linked to the Brand cover image, and works as expected too!

metamoni

The animation looks great and you've addressed all the feedback in this PR, so this looks good to me! Great job 👍

stufreen

LGTM with one change - plus still waiting for translations?

stufreen · 2023-03-08T15:32:33Z

sections/image-banner.liquid

@@ -40,17 +54,12 @@
        if section.settings.image_2 != blank
          assign image_class = 'banner__media-image-half'
        endif
-        if section.settings.image_2 != blank and section.settings.stack_images_on_mobile
-          assign sizes = '(min-width: 750px) 50vw, 100vw'
+        if section.settings.image != blank and section.settings.stack_images_on_mobile


I think this line shouldn't be changed - should be section.settings.image_2.

Good call. Fixed in 20ad896.

And yep — translations have been requested, just waiting for them to come in. 👍

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kjellr · 2023-03-10T13:28:20Z

Translations are in, so I just requested another round of reviews. Thanks, everyone!

stufreen

Re-approving - Let's make sure to squash and merge this one too to keep the commit log clean

* shopify/main: Gift cards/add recipient (Shopify#2412) Update 1 translation file (Shopify#2453) [Slideshow] Add ambient movement to background (Shopify#2383) Wrap calls to search results ind collection counts in paginate to reduce additional requests (Shopify#2421) [Header] Add app block in the header section (Shopify#2238) [Image with Text] Add ambient movement to image (Shopify#2385) Update 1 translation file (Shopify#2450) [Blog post section] Fix slides size on mobile (Shopify#2368) Duplicated scrollbar in drawer menu (Shopify#2400) [Header locales] Support gradients (Shopify#2386) [Image banner] Add ambient movement to background (Shopify#2342)

* [Image banner] Add ambient movement to background * Polish up the animation * Support prefers-reduced-motion * Reorder schema entries. * Tidy up header names. * Try a faster animation. * Load in higher-res images when ambient animation is active. * Change both the sizes and widths properties. * Fix unintended change to the first stacked conditional. * Update 20 translation files --------- Co-authored-by: translation-platform[bot] <34770790+translation-platform[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

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[Image banner] Add ambient movement to background

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Reorder schema entries.

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Try a faster animation.

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Load in higher-res images when ambient animation is active.

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Change both the sizes and widths properties.

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Fix unintended change to the first stacked conditional.

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		if section.settings.image_behavior == 'ambient'
		assign widths = '450, 660, 900, 1320, 1800, 2136, 2400, 3600, 7680'

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