FeatureVariation replacement missing in svg animation exports

[MariannaPaszkowska]

Hi! I noticed that a feature variation replacement are not present in svg animation while they well work in the font (and they show well in Samsa). Perhaps something is going wrong during the export.

[Lorp]

Thanks for this. Indeed SVG animation only works on the current glyph and excludes other glyphs invoked by FeatureVariations. The SVG animation model makes it difficult to switch to a new, incompatible shape. It could probably work by embedding some JavaScript in the SVG, that checks animation progress to show/hide different SVG elements.

Note that such SVG+JS files, like animated SVG in general, don’t import well into Illustrator or Affinity, but they would likely work fine embedded in web pages.