Creating in-game animation by using translate

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I want to have a sliding door that goes up, when you push a button.

Can I only set two coordinates, so that my game would interpolate in between those two translations for e.g. 2 secs?

Thanks in advance

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Hi @SayHiToMePls,

Yes, you can use the lerp method inside update on the pc.Vec3 class to do that:

https://developer.playcanvas.com/api/pc.Vec3.html#lerp

A more complex way for a smoother animation is to use a pc.Curve:

https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/tutorials/animate-entities-with-curves/

And another way is to use the PlayCanvas Tween library:

https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/tutorials/tweening/

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Thanks, Iā€™m going to try that out later :+1:

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Additionally check out this tween component to control tweens via a script component. It wraps up the methods @Leonidas mentioned. https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/blob/dev/scripts/animation/tween.js

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