The right way to Lerp in Unity

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Learn how to Lerp in Unity, the "right" way.
00:00 Intro
00:38 What does Lerp do?
01:19 The "right" way to use Lerp
04:54 What can you do with Lerp?
06:38 Other types of Lerp
08:32 Lerp Assets
09:05 Outro
You'll learn how Lerp in Unity is supposed to work, what you can do with it, and when you might be better off using something else.
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@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

For another Lerp-like easing function (that I forgot to mention in the video) try Mathf Smooth Step! It works the same as the Smooth Step formula in the video, except that it uses a built-in function to do it: docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.SmoothStep.html

@Equisdeification Жыл бұрын

Your channel is incredible, you explain things in a very easy way to understand!

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@RadzoI Жыл бұрын

You always get me hyped

@butterthegrand5783 Жыл бұрын

You have had the answer to just about every question no one else can seem to get. Really an amazing channel.

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@RadzoI Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much you are the best KZfaqr ever

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Veddy1674 5 ай бұрын

this video, even with years and years of experience, it's extremely useful, i saved it so i can access it easily lmao

@thenukdevendra1902 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing video! Thanks a lot, wish you the best of luck!

@wavesweare Жыл бұрын

simple thumbnail, but the content and the quality is out of this world. you are awesome

@bigshot1724 Жыл бұрын

Another underrated channel! Keep up the good work! You deserve so much more!

@benjaminsmallarz5059 Жыл бұрын

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@isteyak78 Жыл бұрын

These are the kind of video we need, it's not just made a specific task but for everyone who use unity❤

@chopov11 11 ай бұрын

Beautiful channel please keep posting. Such good video editing and education

@mapolaxplays4889 6 ай бұрын

This video is incredible easy to understand.

@CyclesSomething Жыл бұрын

Do more of these they will deffo get views

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Will do 👍🏻

@ilyapavlov1377 Жыл бұрын

Please, more!!! Thank you!

@MyPing0 Жыл бұрын

Nice video! I don't feel Lerp isn't really talked about much so this is great for people who'll want to learn about it properly.

@tiksman17 Жыл бұрын

Great as always! Keep creating great content!

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

@Bananenbauer123 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video. I looove the clean and yet very practice oriented approach of your videos. Tons of examples and different uses for many methods we have available. See, I was using lerp to make a camera pan and follow the mouse cursor. Now I have to check out the more snappy effect of Mathf.SmoothDamp Edit: Your channel is totally underrated, I so hope the algorythm blesses one of your futures videos so your channel can blow up.

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Kanibulus Жыл бұрын

The visual explanations are great !

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@patrickberbon3135 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video

@gameaudioinstitute Жыл бұрын

@Game Dev Beginner - just wanted to say i got a tremendous amount of useful info from your Coroutine web post awhile back. sort of inspired me to cover it a bit in our scripting shorts series - most recently i tried ChatGPT to write a script to play random sounds from an array with random delay and it did great on that. really glad you're extending the blog posts into full fledged videos - clean, simple, and informative presentation here. subscribed! (scott from GAI)

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Thanks Scott, happy to help!

@MarekNijaki Жыл бұрын

Awesome video as always!

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@AbdullahGameDev Жыл бұрын

Amazing 👏

@InzeDev Жыл бұрын

I had two instances of Lerp in my game. One for a follower that floats behind you and is meant to feel like their momentum never really stops, so it works well. The other is for the camera. However, now that I know SmoothedDamp exists I've completely replaced the script for my camera movement resulting in something I am so much happier with. I also have some grid based movement that I've already been using MoveToTarget for, but I hadn't even thought about using that for health bars despite how obvious it seems in retrospect. Really enjoy your content. Your video on Events & Delegates was incredibly helpful for one of the earliest problems I was trying to solve, so I'm glad I've stumbled across your channel again to show some appreciation.

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Happy to help.

@maykefernandesdossantos7374 11 ай бұрын

your channel is one of the best on unity tutorials man! have you considered creating unity courses?

@TurkiKAlqou Жыл бұрын

YOUR CHANNEL IS AMAZING!

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@Barldon Жыл бұрын

6:36 This saved my life. Lol.

@AlexandreCoulonOldChannel Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@migleding9817 Жыл бұрын

another way to create smooth movement using lerp, that should be correct float lerpAmountForFrame = Mathf.Pow(0.5, lerpAmount * Time.deltaTime); transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, target, lerpAmountForFrame); also pro tip: combining both lerp and moveTowards gives you a hella nice versatile smooth movement behaviour, also depending on the arrangement of the two. Plus the value will snap to 0

@toomuchdogg9180 Жыл бұрын

I have a question, so I recently watched your jump video, and I recall you set you player to interpolate in the editor to make the movement more smooth. I am just wondering if that is a whole different thing or what. Also I have been loving your videos I’ve watched almost every single one in the last few days!

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Thank you! So the interpolation setting I set on the jump video smooths out fixed update calls because they are usually only at 50fps by default. You'd usually do it on a player that is moved by physics, especially if there's a camera attached.

@toomuchdogg9180 Жыл бұрын

@@GameDevBeginner cool, thanks for the response. One last question is if you have ever have ever considered doing private lessons (paid of course), where I could just go through my project with you and your could give some tips and feedback on ways to improve it. I understand if you may be to busy for that sort of thing.

@Marc142000 Жыл бұрын

Your voice reminds me a lot of Mark Brown's

@hide_ch Жыл бұрын

I am currently developing a system to move with Lerp. However, I do not know how to cancel the move from A to B. I want to use it at respawn time. When a player respawns, I want to return only the "floor object" to its initial position. However, the "floor object" is set to move from A to B in Lerp. Even if I switch it on and off with a boolean variable, the Lerp keeps moving to B and arrives at B. When the player hits the outzone collider, I want to cancel the Lerp movement of the "floor object" and move it from its initial position, but I can't think of a good way to do this...

@tirt Жыл бұрын

LeenTween is also great!

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Great tip, thanks!

@WickyPayne Жыл бұрын

06:05 could we use Math.InverseLerp for that ?

@GameDevBeginner Жыл бұрын

Yes, I think so. I forgot that existed.

@Ian_Brock Жыл бұрын

I'm making a 2D platformer that basically uses Lerp for everything lol. I use the DoTween library though for their movement. Its super useful for moving platforms, flashing save icons on screen, etc.

@MrFaciio Жыл бұрын

I prefer DoTween :D

@1721nick 8 күн бұрын

Using Lerp to move something towards a changing target IS wrong, because it is framerate dependant. Say you set the value of t to be 0.5, and you're Lerping from point A to B. Each frame, the distance between the two points is halved. This means that at a higher frame rate, you're halving the distance more frequently, which makes the movement faster as a result. Conversely, it will be slower at lower frame rates.

@GameDevBeginner 7 күн бұрын

What you're saying is right, but I'm not sure that I've seen anyone use Lerp like that. The only live target method I've seen used is when delta Time is passed in place of t, which is still consistently scaled.