How to scale (animate) individual tile at runtime ?

Hi,

Am making a simple match3 game, with tile swapping ability, so far everything works fine but i just want to add some juice to it, am wondering if i can have the Tiles shrink and grow up directly ?

Am using this method to do the switching:

Code (CSharp):

1.  public void SwitchTiles(Tilemap _map, Vector3Int pos1, Vector3Int pos2)
2.     {
3.         //save selected Tile
4.         TileBase selectedT = _map.GetTile(pos1);
5.         //save target tile
6.         TileBase targetT = _map.GetTile(pos2);
7.         //place selected tile to the target position
8.         _map.SetTile(pos2, selectedT);
9.         //place target Tile to the selected position
10.         _map.SetTile(pos1, targetT);
11.     }

Am wondering if there is a way to scale (and animate) an individual tile based on giving position ?

I tried this :

Code (CSharp):

1. public void ScaleTileTest()
2.     {
3.         Tile t = _pointTile.GetTile(_testPos) as Tile;
4.         t.gameObject.transform.localScale = new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f);
5.     }

but the casting from TileBase (GetTile()) to Tile didn't work.

So far the only solution i can think of, is when doing the Switching, i'll hide the real tiles, instantiate Gameobjects to their positions, do the animation with these Gameobjects, and when its done, hide these objects and make the real tiles appear, but this feel like some useless extra work cause their must be a way to scale those tiles isn't ?

thanks!