Making a gameobject move to a position

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1

So I have this game object that I want to move to a position.

What I do not want to do is to have a FixedUpdate function that has anything similar to

MovePosition(pos * speed * Delta time)

Is there a way to only call a function once, and it does the moving for you instead? I don’t want it to teleport from point A to B so just setting the transform.position = newPos isnt something that I am looking for.

The only thing that I can think of is using a coroutine, but I was wondering if there is a function that guarantees that it moves to a point without me having to update its position every frame in the Update function.

2

According to Unity - Scripting API: Vector3.MoveTowards , the code you need is simply

public Transform target;
    public float speed;
    void Update() {
        float step = speed * Time.deltaTime;
        transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, target.position, step);
    }

So, yes, it does have to be in an updating function to my knowledge, but it’s a very simple code.

3

i dont know why youre avoiding the update function… that seems strange to me but there are a few ways to do what youre asking.

you can make a new animation that moves one object to another then call animation.Play() on that gameobject

you could set up a while loop for example:

float secondX;
float secondy;
float secondz;
Vector3 firstPosition = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
Vector3 secondPosition = new Vecotr3(whatever, whatever, whatever);
while(transform.position.x < secondX)
{
  transform.position = new Vecotr3(transform.position.x + 0.001f, transform.position.y, trnasform.position.z);
}

though, the above way is technically just you coding something similar to an update function

and yes, coroutines would also be another way.