Animation Efficiency

Unity Engine
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Hi there. I would like some input to help me determine the most efficient way to animate objects in Unity.

I first started using iTween 2.0 which is great and easy to use. but i noticed its slow for my needs. I have been told iTween 3.0 is to be released which addresses these issues.

But I have decided to completely remove the library and do animations manually. Is the Animation View efficient enough to use so that there would be a lag or hiccup when animations are started/stopped? is it the best and fasted solution?

I have been removing instances of itween and replacing them with something like this from within a method.

SomeFunction()
{
	...
	StartCoroutine(AnimateObject(5.0f));
	...
}

IEnumerator AnimateObject(float theDuration)
{
	myTransform.localScale = LOCAL_SCALE_MAX;
	float elapsedTime = 0.0f;
	float elapsedPercent = 0.0f;
	float posPercent;
	Debug.Log("Begin Animation");

	while (true)
	{
		elapsedTime += Time.deltaTime;
		elapsedPercent = elapsedTime/theDuration;
		if (elapsedPercent >= 1.0f)
			elapsedPercent = 1.0f;
		posPercent = LOCAL_SCALE_MAX.x - ((LOCAL_SCALE_MAX.x - LOCAL_SCALE_MIN.x) * elapsedPercent);

		myTransform.localScale = new Vector3(posPercent, posPercent, 1.0f);

		if (elapsedPercent == 1.0f)
			break;

		yield return null;
	}
	Debug.Log("Animation Complete");
}

This works great. Its very fast. Readability is not so good but at this point i dont give a damn. Im going for absolute efficiency in almost every single way.

The problem with this code is that I can only animate objects in a LINEAR manner. I haven’t gotten in to Easing in or Easing out. Can you guys add to this to allow for animation curve.

But then shouldn’t I just use the Animation Window to make curves? Again, is it fast enough?

Thanks

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Try using the tags.