How to create animations that can be edited with scripts in runtime?

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1

Okay, let’s make it simple.
I have 3 objects (A,B,C) on a plane. I made a script that permits me to swap their position with the mouse, so I can drag an object over another one, and swap their position.

This is very easy to accomplish with a script.
But how to do it if I want an animation?

When I create an animation, I can define a starting position, and I final position, following a curve. I want to be able to change the final position in runtime, so I don’t have to be worried where is the other player to swap, I can be sure to have that animation with that curve, from A to B or C.

Can you help me to accomplish this very simple task?

I can use timelines, if needed.

Working on Unity 2018.2.1f1.

Thank you.

2

One suggestion is to use AnimationCurves to store the animation data in your script. You can copy and edit them at runtime to modify the final position.