Moving an object towards hit.point

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Hi!

I'm currently making a Dungeon Crawler-type game and I'm having a little bit of trouble with the movement of the character.

The way that it works right now is that I have an waypoint object which is moved around the game world using Raycast.

Moving the waypoint around like this works, moving the character to the waypoint has presented more of a challenge to me though. Looking up earlier answers I've found this script:

var target : Transform; var speed = 5.0;

function Update () {

 transform.position = Vector3.Lerp (
 transform.position, target.position,
 Time.deltaTime* speed);

}

While this script works in a way (it does move the character to the waypoint) it moves the character as if it was connected to the waypoint with a spring and as such moves faster the farther away you put the waypoint.

What I would like is to move the character at a constant speed toward the waypoint. Anyone got any idea how to achieve this?

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Answer by Wolfram · Aug 16, 2010 at 10:57 PM

float distance=Vector3.Distance(transform.position, target.position);
if(distance>0){
    transform.position = Vector3.Lerp (
    transform.position, target.position,
    Time.deltaTime* speed/distance);
}

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Hanneswall · Aug 17, 2010 at 10:19 AM 0

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Thanks a lot, it worked great!

BlacKatFever · Oct 25, 2011 at 07:53 AM 0

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Thanks for this answer! It helped me a lot as well!

Binxalot · Feb 15, 2013 at 09:52 PM 0

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Thank you so much, I've been trying to figure this out for hours now. Found this answer by complete accident.

easy rhino · Jun 01, 2013 at 01:24 PM 0

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Same here - thanks!

c6y · Dec 12, 2013 at 06:35 AM 0

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thanks! @Wolfram

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