Why is my SmoothDamp taking four times longer to finish than it should?

Questions & Answers
1

This takes 4.6 seconds to complete. I want it to take 1.0 seconds - like I put in the function.

cur, to, and vel are not altered anywhere.

What have I done wrong?

#pragma strict

var from : float;
var to : float = 10;
var time : float = 1;
private var vel : float;
private var cur : float;
private var amntTime : float;

function Start () {
	cur = from;
	vel = 0;
}

function Update () {
	amntTime += Time.deltaTime;
	cur = Mathf.SmoothDamp(cur,to,vel,time);

	if ( Mathf.Abs(cur-to) < 0.01 ) {
		Debug.Log("Took " + amntTime);
		gameObject.active = false;
	}
}

I was using deltaTime, which has the same results as this convoluted thing. Just trying to see if somehow the coroutine was getting the wrong deltaTime.

2

SmoothDamp looks like it uses Time.deltaTime internally or some other method of keeping the smoothing consistent over each frame. Try replacing “Time.time - lastTime” with something constant and it should work. Like putting a 1 should smooth it for one second. I could be wrong but I have used SmoothDamp before and noticed that putting Time.deltaTime in that parameter slot is pointless.