Stop Using Lerp Wrong! Here's a Better Way 

i thought it was common sense to use lerp this way. what's the other way?

To anyone saying he’s strictly using it wrong, the original use case still has great utility for smooth exponential chasing, Freya holmer (queen of linear interpolation) has a whole talk about this and how to frame rate sync

Ah yes, always the correct way to learn. With Dora the explorer

I want to make a game since 2015, but i'm so noob i currently only do it with numerically (a set represent edge and another set represent the path) (and even this i had struggle to do it). It would be game where we move along the sides of polygons leaving a trace of a certain color, we can go back this will trace [[above/beside] / this will make another floor ] and when we have gone around the polygon respecting the rules*, this changes the color of the trace and saves it if it does not already exist. (*ex: no more than 2 round trips on the same segment/side)

this video seems more of an explaination to your misunderstanding of how lerp works because you closed the tutorial you were following as soon as the line of code at the beginning was written...you cant title a video stop using lerp wrong when youre the one using it wrong rather than the massively acceptable way

Ah i see, i shall now use lerp using this method! 😮😅

You are missing one very very crucial aspect of using lerp() the regular way, and that is the fact that it's intentionally NOT an animation that has a start and an end - but rather something that keeps happening all the time every frame. When does this matter? This matters if the target moving itself is moving even while the "animated" object is approaching it. For example if we want something to smoothly trail along our cursor with a delay! You can't achieve that with an animation, because this motion doesn't have a start, an end, or a "state". This is the kind of task that the regular application of lerp in motion is used for. Your "reimagining" of the lerp technique is simply addressing an entirely different situation, for which indeed animation curves are better. So please don't be under the impression that the "normal" way of using lerp is somehow wrong - it is a perfectly good and powerful technique for many situations which you just seem to have not acknowledged. A separate note on the "never reaching the end value" issue that you outline - while it's mathematically true, for all practical purposes it's false. At t=0.5, within 20 iterations/frames the value error will be less than one millionth of the distance, which at our current monitor resolutions is not even visible in pixels with anti-aliasing. So it's quite literally of no consequence.

Someone had seen that Freya Holmer video too 😊

beautiful video!

very informative and educational, someone like me who has never touched any form of code before can easily understand this. very nice! Very great! very awesome!!!

Great video! Very informative