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Keyframe.outTangent

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public var outTangent: float;
public float outTangent;

Description

Describes the tangent when leaving this point towards the next point in the curve.

The angle needs to be expressed in radians.

The tangent is really just the gradient of the slope, as in "change in y / change in x"

See Also: inTangent.

#pragma strict
public class KeyFrameTangentExample extends MonoBehaviour {
	var animCurve: AnimationCurve = null;
	function Start() {
		var ks: Keyframe[] = new Keyframe[3];
		ks[0] = new Keyframe(0, 0);
		ks[0].outTangent = 1.5708f;
		// 90 degrees up
		ks[1] = new Keyframe(4, 0);
		ks[1].outTangent = 0;
		// straight
		ks[2] = new Keyframe(6, 0);
		ks[2].outTangent = -1.5708f;
		// 90 degrees down
		animCurve = new AnimationCurve(ks);
	}
	function Update() {
		if (animCurve != null)
			transform.position = new Vector3(Time.time, animCurve.Evaluate(Time.time), 0);
	}
}
using UnityEngine;

public class KeyFrameTangentExample : MonoBehaviour { AnimationCurve animCurve = null;

void Start() { Keyframe[] ks = new Keyframe[3];

ks[0] = new Keyframe(0, 0); ks[0].outTangent = 1.5708f; // 90 degrees up

ks[1] = new Keyframe(4, 0); ks[1].outTangent = 0; // straight

ks[2] = new Keyframe(6, 0); ks[2].outTangent = -1.5708f; // 90 degrees down

animCurve = new AnimationCurve(ks); }

void Update() { if (animCurve != null) transform.position = new Vector3(Time.time, animCurve.Evaluate(Time.time), 0); } }