DOTween FTW!

Wow... just wow... lol

So last post I was feeling good about the implementation of my Gate Animator being so "lightweight". But then I shared the Gate animation GIF in Discord (special shout to Wokarol and Tarodev for really preaching the good word) and was immediately bombarded with recommendations- nay WARNINGS to use DOTween as an animation solution over Unity's Animator!

This was my initial approach (my bad if not aligning the states triggers your OCD 🤣). Fairly straightforward; it listens to a single boolean value to transition from one state to the next. But 3 animations AND an animator AND an animator controller script was just for one Gate! Definitely something I don't want to continue doing for every different form of Gate in my game.

In comes DOTween! It's a little (a lot) more script focused but very easily parameterized.

On the left is my Activator receiver script where it sets the start and end rotations and plays the tween. I parameterized everything I fed into the Tweener and am able to modify it in the inspector. I'm even able to set the ease of the Tween to an animation curve to give it a custom bounciness!

All in all, I'm happy with DOTween as a solution. It's crazy because this prototype is still very much in its infancy but just by sharing the little progress I make, I'm met with very helpful developers that are eager to share their thoughts and opinions on it! I don't have to act on every piece of advice I'm given but, in this case, I'm glad I did!