Problem with smooth movement

Hello everyone!

I am having a little trouble getting smooth movement for my GameObjects. I am currently testing with simple sriangle sprites and a gray background, so nothing too fancy.

The triangle would move smoothly for a bit, but every now and then do a little jerk forward. Sometimes it is hardly noticable, and at other times it is. I want to eliminate the possibility that I am doing something obviously wrong, so I would really appreciate any tips or ideas, why this might be happening.

Some more details about my test:

• WebGL build
• It is a 2D scene, I use Vector2 for all the movement code
• The mouse click detection (for the new target position) as well as the movement itself happen in Update()
• I use

  Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, target, speed * Time.deltaTime)

  to determine the new position for this frame

I have also tried with

Vector2.Lerp()

, and what I found in a blog post: How to Lerp like a pro, but the problem remains (although harder to notice with Lerp).

Any hints and pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Patrick

 

Hello @jukka_j!

I was running a development build. What seemed to help was putting the actual movement in a coroutine (which made working with Lerp() easier anyways). Thanks for your response, it seems to work fine with the coroutine approach.

Best regards,
Patrick