Custom effect that simulates a 3d wheel with Swiper 5

Question

I need to build a carousel with 12 items that simulate a 3d wheel rotating infinitely. To be clear, I need to create precisely this effect:

https://codepen.io/SitePoint/pen/yXWXaw (found here)

but with these adding features (on desktop and mobile especially):

1. slides have to follow step-by-step the swipe, that is slides should move while swiping (as Swiper does).
2. With a fast swipe it should scroll many slides with momentum (as Swiper does with freeScroll).
3. Then when wheel stops rotating it snaps to the front slide (as Swiper does with freeModeSticky and centeredSlides) that it's the chosen one from the user.
4. I need a callback each time a slide change (event like slideChanged) (as Swiper does).

For all these reasons I thought Swiper 5.3.0 would be a good starting point.

I tried various workaround, the better one is with this setup, but the loop: true is an awful workaround and causes issues (check the comments):

  var swiper = new Swiper(el_class, {
    slidesPerView: 1.5,
    spaceBetween: 25,
    centeredSlides: true,
    grabCursor: true,
    speed: 550,
    loop: true, // <== repeat infinitely the 12 items. with fast scroll at the end of a cycle it waits a while before render the next cycle. Awful
    loopAdditionalSlides: 10, 

    // Free mode
    freeMode: true, // <== free scrolling. Good
    freeModeMomentumRatio: 1,
    freeModeMomentumVelocityRatio: 1.5,
    freeModeMomentumBounceRatio: 1,
    freeModeMinimumVelocity: 0.02,
    freeModeSticky: true, // <== snap to the slides. Good

    // Touch Resistance
    resistanceRatio: 0.85,

    // Prevent blurry texts
    roundLengths: true,

  });

Definitely not the right way.

I think the right way is to develop a custom Swiper effect (like the built-in cubeEffect, coverflowEffect, ...) that simulates the wheel, without using loop:true that causes issues. For example, here a guy creates his own custom effect that then he sets in the effect attribute of Swiper: https://codepen.io/paralleluniv3rse/pen/yGQjMv

...
effect: "myCustomTransition",
...

How to develop a custom effect like the 3d wheel I need?

Answer 1

I think this is what you want: https://codepen.io/mukyuu/pen/GRgPYqG.

It almost fulfilled your conditions except for it's not using Swiper 5 and snap.

1. It's rotating with the direction of the swipe.
2. With a fast swipe, it should scroll many slides with momentum (as Swiper does).
3. Then when wheel stops rotating it snaps to a slide (as Swiper does).
4. In ontouch function there is a callback.

HTML:

<div class="carousel" id="wrapper">
    <figure>
    <img src="https://source.unsplash.com/7mUXaBBrhoA/800x533" alt="">
    <img src="https://source.unsplash.com/bjhrzvzZeq4/800x533" alt="">
        <img src="https://source.unsplash.com/EbuaKnSm8Zw/800x533" alt="">
        <img src="https://source.unsplash.com/kG38b7CFzTY/800x533" alt="">
        <img src="https://source.unsplash.com/nvzvOPQW0gc/800x533" alt="">
        <img src="https://source.unsplash.com/mCg0ZgD7BgU/800x533" alt="">
    <img src="https://source.unsplash.com/1FWICvPQdkY/800x533" alt="">
        <img src="https://source.unsplash.com/VkwRmha1_tI/800x533" alt="">
    </figure>
</div>

S(CSS):

body {
    margin: 0;
    font-family: 'Roboto';
    font-size: 16px;

    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    height: 100vh;
    justify-content: center;
}

// Carousel configuration parameters
$n: 8;
$item-width: 400px;
$item-separation: 80px;
$viewer-distance: 500px;

// Derived variables
$theta: 2 * 3.141592653589793 / $n; 
$apothem: 482.842712474619px;

.carousel {
    padding: 20px;

    perspective: $viewer-distance;
    overflow: hidden;

    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    align-items: center;
    > * {
        flex: 0 0 auto;
    }

    figure {
        cursor: grab;
        margin: 0;

        width: $item-width;
        transform-style: preserve-3d;
        transition: transform 0.5s;
        transform-origin: 50% 50% (-$apothem);

        img {
            width: 100%;
            box-sizing: border-box;
            padding: 0 $item-separation / 2;

            opacity: 0.9;

            &:not(:first-of-type) {
                position: absolute;
                left: 0;
                top: 0;
                transform-origin: 50% 50% (-$apothem);
            }

            @for $i from 2 through $n {
                &:nth-child(#{$i}) {
                    transform: rotateY(#{($i - 1) * $theta}rad);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    nav {
        display: flex;
        justify-content: center;
        margin: 20px 0 0;

        button {
            flex: 0 0 auto;
            margin: 0 5px;

            cursor: pointer;

            color: #333;
            background: none;
            border: 1px solid;
            letter-spacing: 1px;
            padding: 5px 10px;
        }
    }
}

JS:

var
    carousel = document.querySelector('.carousel'),
    figure = carousel.querySelector('figure'),
    nav = carousel.querySelector('nav'),
    numImages = figure.childElementCount,
    theta =  2 * Math.PI / numImages,
    currImage = 0
;

// add touch detect:
function ontouch(el, callback){
 // Modified from http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/touchevents3.shtml
    var touchsurface = el,
    dir,
    swipeType,
    startX,
    startY,
    distX,
    distY,
    threshold = 150, //required min distance traveled to be considered swipe
    restraint = 100, // maximum distance allowed at the same time in perpendicular direction
    allowedTime = 500, // maximum time allowed to travel that distance
    elapsedTime,
    startTime,
    handletouch = callback || function(evt, dir, phase, swipetype, distance){}

    touchsurface.addEventListener('touchstart', function(e){
        var touchobj = e.changedTouches[0]
        dir = 'none'
        swipeType = 'none'
        dist = 0
        startX = touchobj.pageX
        startY = touchobj.pageY
        startTime = new Date().getTime() // record time when finger first makes contact with surface
        handletouch(e, 'none', 'start', swipeType, 0) // fire callback function with params dir="none", phase="start", swipetype="none" etc
        e.preventDefault()

    }, false)

    touchsurface.addEventListener('touchmove', function(e){
        var touchobj = e.changedTouches[0]
        distX = touchobj.pageX - startX // get horizontal dist traveled by finger while in contact with surface
        distY = touchobj.pageY - startY // get vertical dist traveled by finger while in contact with surface
        if (Math.abs(distX) > Math.abs(distY)){ // if distance traveled horizontally is greater than vertically, consider this a horizontal movement
            dir = (distX < 0)? 'left' : 'right'
            handletouch(e, dir, 'move', swipeType, distX) // fire callback function with params dir="left|right", phase="move", swipetype="none" etc
        }
        else{ // else consider this a vertical movement
            dir = (distY < 0)? 'up' : 'down'
            handletouch(e, dir, 'move', swipeType, distY) // fire callback function with params dir="up|down", phase="move", swipetype="none" etc
        }
        e.preventDefault() // prevent scrolling when inside DIV
    }, false)

    touchsurface.addEventListener('touchend', function(e){
        var touchobj = e.changedTouches[0]
        elapsedTime = new Date().getTime() - startTime // get time elapsed
        if (elapsedTime <= allowedTime){ // first condition for awipe met
            if (Math.abs(distX) >= threshold && Math.abs(distY) <= restraint){ // 2nd condition for horizontal swipe met
                swipeType = dir // set swipeType to either "left" or "right"
            }
            else if (Math.abs(distY) >= threshold && Math.abs(distX) <= restraint){ // 2nd condition for vertical swipe met
                swipeType = dir // set swipeType to either "top" or "down"
            }
        }
        // Fire callback function with params dir="left|right|up|down", phase="end", swipetype=dir etc:
        handletouch(e, dir, 'end', swipeType, (dir =='left' || dir =='right')? distX : distY)
        e.preventDefault()
    }, false)
}
function DoSomething(dir, distance) {
  //modifiy this function for wheel rotation (prev/next) images
  var momentum = 100; // modify this value for how much momentum expected to switch to next/prev images
  switch (dir){
    case 'left':
    case 'right':
      currImage+= Math.round(distance/momentum);
      break;
  }
    figure.style.transform = `rotateY(${currImage * -theta}rad)`;
}
document.getElementById('wrapper').ondragstart = function() { return false; }; // prevent image dragged on mouse drag
window.addEventListener('load', function() {
  var dir, phase, el = document.getElementById('wrapper'),
    position = {
      X: 0,
      Y: 0
    };

  el.onmousedown = function(down) {
    position.X = down.clientX;
    position.Y = down.clientY;
  };

  el.onmouseup = function(up) {
    distX = up.clientX - position.X; // get horizontal dist traveled by finger while in contact with surface
    distY = position.Y - up.clientY; // get vertical dist traveled by finger while in contact with surface
    if (Math.abs(distX) > Math.abs(distY)) { // if distance traveled horizontally is greater than vertically, consider this a horizontal movement
      dir = (distX < 0) ? 'left' : 'right';
      distance = distX;
    } else { // else consider this a vertical movement
      dir = (distY < 0) ? 'down' : 'up';
      distance = distY;
    }
    dir = (distance == 0) ? 'none' : dir;
    DoSomething(dir, distance); // simulate touch from mouse control
  }; 
  ontouch(el, function(evt, dir, phase, swipetype, distance){
 // evt: contains original Event object
 // dir: contains "none", "left", "right", "top", or "down"
 // phase: contains "start", "move", or "end"
 // swipetype: contains "none", "left", "right", "top", or "down"
 // distance: distance traveled either horizontally or vertically, depending on dir value

 if ( phase == 'end' && (dir =='left' || dir == 'right') ) // on succesful swipe
   DoSomething(dir, distance);
})
}, false)

Tested in Android 9 and Windows 10 browsers.