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Smooth scroll belongs to the engine, and the scroll clock is a shared loop — not a ScrollTrigger port

· 4 min read
Jon-Michael Lastimosa
Senior Web Developer

The question: Phase 0 of the Animation Engine's motion roadmap is "make scrolling feel effortless everywhere, and give every scroll-driven effect one shared clock." That raised two forks. (1) Where should the new inertia smooth-scroll live — a new engine module, or an extension of the theme's existing anchor-link "Smooth Scroll"? (2) How do we unify the scroll-reactive modules so they stay in lockstep — port them all to GSAP's ScrollTrigger, or reuse the engine's own shared animation loop?

The GSAP snippet generator mirrors the Custom Code contract — it is not a full GSAP playground

· 4 min read
Jon-Michael Lastimosa
Senior Web Developer

The question: the Scroll Motion Custom Code (Motion Snippet) field lets an author hand-write GSAP, but a newcomer faces a blank editor with no idea of the API surface. A code generator would help — but how much of GSAP should it expose: everything (a general GSAP playground), or only what the field actually gives you?

A dozen uploads/unysonplus-* folders, or one uploads/unysonplus/ parent?

· 3 min read
Jon-Michael Lastimosa
Senior Web Developer

The question: UnysonPlus had grown a scatter of sibling upload folders in the WordPress uploads root — unysonplus-icon-packs, unysonplus-asset-optimizer, unysonplus-lottie, unysonplus-rive, unysonplus-templates, unysonplus-designs, unysonplus-shortcodes, unysonplus-presets, plus a plain unysonplus/ for generated CSS. Should each keep its own top-level folder, or move under a single uploads/unysonplus/ parent?

"Overlay on last section" as a Footer Layout toggle — positioning only, JS-gated

· 4 min read
Jon-Michael Lastimosa
Senior Web Developer

The question: on a cinematic reference site the footer isn't a band below the page — its closing tagline sits on the bottom of the last full-height scene, overlaid. That also removes the blank gap a pinned last section leaves after it fades out. Should this be a one-off per-site hack, or a first-class Footer option — and if an option, how do we make it generic and safe?

Per-batch scatter with synced text: one Stage of scenes, not five separate galleries

· 4 min read
Jon-Michael Lastimosa
Senior Web Developer

The question: a reference site's scroll section plays as a sequence of batches — each batch is a set of photos that scatters onto the surface, holds around a centered line of text, then scatters away as the next batch (with different photos and a different line) arrives. How do we build that so each batch has its own images, its own text, and its own entrance/exit — and stays editable in the builder?

Is the Animated Heading shortcode redundant now that the Animation Engine has text effects?

· 3 min read
Jon-Michael Lastimosa
Senior Web Developer

The question: The Animation Engine → Text Effects module already ships rotating_words and typewriter (among ~40 effects) that can be applied to any text element. Does the standalone animated_heading shortcode still earn its place, or should it be deprecated in favor of "special_heading + a text effect"?