How to move an instantiated object a fixed distance in local space?

Questions & Answers
1

I know it seems so simple, but I’ve been working on this for several hours now and I feel like I have tried everything I can find on unity3d.com, google and youtube. It is for a simple whack-a-mole game.

I at least have everything moving to a fixed location, but it is using world space and I haven’t figured out a way to have it occur over 1 second of real time. Could someone point me in the right direction? I’d like to have each instance of this prefab move up 1 unit when it is instantiated, wait several seconds, and then move down. This is the script I have attached to my prefab:

static	var moveSpeed:float = 10.0;

function Update () {

var bottomPosition:Transform;
var topPosition = Vector3(0,1,0);

	moleAlive = true;
	gameObject.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, topPosition, (Time.deltaTime * moveSpeed));

}
2

You can use a coroutine such as the ones in MoveObject. In this case you can do:

var moveSpeed = 10.0;
var waitTime = 3.0;

function Start () {
	yield MoveObject.use.Translation (transform, Vector3.up, moveSpeed, MoveType.Speed);
	yield WaitForSeconds (waitTime);
	MoveObject.use.Translation (transform, -Vector3.up, moveSpeed, MoveType.Speed);	
}

Note that you don’t want to use static variables for this sort of thing. Static means that only one instance of that variable can exist, and you can’t edit them in the inspector.