Note that the element has been deprecated in favor of simply using the animate element to target properties that can take color values. – which modifies the color value of particular attributes or properties over time.– which moves an element along a motion path.– which is a convenient shorthand for animate, which is useful for assigning animation values to non-numeric attributes and properties, such as the visibility property.– which allows you to animate scalar attributes and properties over a period of time.The animation elements were initially defined in the SMIL Animation specification these elements include: SVG graphics can be animated using animation elements. Elements, attributes and properties that can be animated.Animating transformations: The Element.Animating along arbitrary paths: The Element.Animating an element’s attribute from one value to another over a duration of time, and specifying the end state: from, by, to, dur and fill.Specifying the target property of the animation with attributeName and attributeType.Specifying the target of the animation with xlink:href.Here she digs into SMIL (and friends), and animation syntax built right into SVG, and gives us this epic guide. Sara has a knack for digging deep into web features and explaining the heck out of them for the rest of us. The following is a guest post by Sara Soueidan. Sarah Drasner has a guide on how you can replace some of it’s features. However, the ones I make in Inkscape myself do not behave as expected.Update December 2015: At the time of this update, SMIL seems to be kinda dying. When I experiment with handwritten SVGs found in various tutorials - they work. However, if that were the case, then I'd see the shape come back for a few moments at the beginning of each cycle.

My first guess was that the coordinates are somehow offset, and the Pacman shape is animated somewhere in outer space. After 2 seconds, as defined by begin='2s', the yellow figure simply disappears. The problem is that the animation does not work. The path coordinates are copied from the trajectory object.

The objective is to make the figure move along the path.Īfter saving the image to a file, I edit it, by adding the following section within the Pacman-figure:

I have the following SVG produced in Inkscape, it has a Pacman figure ( id=pacman) and a path ( id=trajectory).

Animation inkscape tutorial