DOTWEEN is the BEST Unity asset in the WORLD and I'll fight anybody who disagrees

DOTween is the very first thing I install upon creating a new project. Animate your position, rotation and scale in a single line of code, with all the customization you could hope for... and that's only scratching the surface.
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00:00 Stupid Intro
00:20 What is DOTween / Installing
02:00 DOTween basics
08:35 Sequences and Tasks
14:37 Additional features
17:55 DOVirtual - Tweening values
18:55 SpeedBased for reliable speed over distance

[@Tarodev]

For everybody commenting that I pronounce it wrong: twitter.com/Tarodev/status/1455737094718967815 If you were about to blast me for it and then saw this, you have to like this comment to apologize to me 💋

[@PuNkTrAnKaS]

I disagree with you. There are better libraries, and I would post it here, but you keep deleting my comments....

[@Tarodev]

@@PuNkTrAnKaS I've actually never deleted a comment in my life. But I do notice sometimes I click a notification and it goes nowhere... I think YT scans them and deems them hostile or something? Not sure

[@mustFLEXboi]

Nice costume

[@r6scrubs126]

@@Tarodev that definitely does happen. I've had it happen a lot on various channels of mine and noticed it if I comment something with certain keywords in on other channels

[@Tarodev]

@@r6scrubs126 Pretty frustrating :(

[@018FLP]

I love Dotween, BUT i personally think it lacks tutorials and things that only somebody more experienced would get any insights in... And it's not that Dotween is not user friendly, but the manual is a way too simple. So, if you want to make more tutos or even more straight examples like you did, i think it would be a great public service! =D Also, is that a Tetris Block costume? lol

[@Tarodev]

You bet your sweet blocks it is 😉

[@nguyenhs9800]

Dude, the package itself is so damn simple to use! More tutorials could be nice but I personally don't think the current manual is enough. I used it in my first job as game dev and I love it at first sight :3

[@rhysvanderwaerden5518]

Seemed pretty straight forward to me! I think there are examples.

[@Vastlee]

The other advantage to multiplying vs dividing is that you can't accidentally /0 and ending the universe.

[@teliph3U]

If you're not using constants, then getting the reciprocal will cause it. If you do, then the compiler can and will do it for you. Sacrificing readability or architecture for something you do not know whether it will affect performance is usually not worth it.

[@coreysonofander]

This video should be included with DOTween's documentation. I just purchased DOTween 2 days ago and trying to understand how it works is very difficult with their documentation. Thank you for this, it's exactly what I was looking for.

[@TwinStick]

I whole heartedly agree!!! I LOVE how all the tweens are awaitable as well!

[@jsn4591]

I love Dotween. It's usually the first thing I import into any project. It solves so many problems so easily. Being able to tween any value makes it sooooo damn useful. My first asset I paid for too, totally worth it!

[@loizosrr]

Thanks for all those videos you are making, everything is so helpful. Btw backgrounds are always so cool! 🤘

[@seanloughran6714]

Super helpful, I've always been interested but I've hated the written tutorials. This is perfect!

[@roux904]

just discovered this channel, "speedbased" tween is what i've been searching for a long time !

[@Tarodev]

I almost didn't include that. Was a split second decision. Lucky 🍀

[@Kotikire]

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Great video, thanks!

[@christianstachl]

Really nice explanation. I recently started with game development and throughout the course we started using Dotween in a rather simple way (mostly just LocalMoveX and DoFade etc). So far i don't need more, but i will definitely save your video for future references 😊👍

[@shoco2]

Heard of this tool a lot but never seen an example, great showcase, ill definitely pick it up

[@dreamisover9813]

I don't check my subscriptions that often, but I usually find your videos on reddit, awesome stuff!

[@Tarodev]

My poor reddit posts never do good, but I'm glad you found your way to me via reddit 😁

[@Zukomazi]

Definite one of the most useful assets , I've been sleeping on this one.

[@TheJoeSke]

Thanks for the video. It again shows the power of DOTween and is nice to see. I'd love to see some more advanced implementations of DOTween in either sequences or Async setups. So maybe a a Part 2 perhaps? Thanks.

[@Tarodev]

I had a more complex async workflow outlined and decided against it for the video. Damn! 😂

[@TheKr0ckeR]

I was having issues understanding local & global, and that was a plus from a video to me! :) thanks

[@redeamed19]

I touched very briefly on Dotween years back. This video makes it clear I need to dedicate more time to this library.

[@piotrwilczynski4366]

DoTween has raw documentation, so videos like yours are invaluable. Thanks man, great examples :) BTW please increase the font size or try zooming in, your code is barely visible when viewed on a notebook

[@Tarodev]

Noted! I'll try remember for next time 👍

[@Icewind007]

I am completely sold. That's some awesome stuff that I feel like I have to rewrite every single time I start a new game.

[@insigpilot]

Came back here after months w/o development. A great resource you are!

[@crazyconan28]

This helped me immensely though a issue I had with Leentween with async functionality. It's so awesome that Dotween has it out of the box, very easy to use!!! Thank you for this video, I got very lucky I accidently stumbled across it.

[@Tarodev]

Glad it could help you 😊

[@VikkersOlfsson]

Another legendary Tarodev tutorial has got me up and running in 2 minutes. Bless your shiney beard son.

[@ShiloBuff]

5:25 Woah, I never knew it was more optimized/faster to use the * operation over /. I usually just use whatever is easiest to read and more simple, which I probably would recommend to anyone that has a simple application. But I will remember that for future, thank you!

[@neolynxer]

I think the compiler will replace invariant division with multiplication for you.

[@xxxx85]

@@neolynxer Yeah, compilers are *really* clever, something as simple as this should definitely get picked up.

[@winter0912]

In that specific case (dividing by 2) it doesn't matter, I think. A decent compiler will replace mul/div involving powers of 2 to left/right bitshift

[@ezequielciamparella1653]

the compiler will just change it afterwards. Dont try to outsmart a compiler, do your best to write readable code

[@kawaiianthony8090]

when i was thinking to code a jump animation by myself, i saw this video, and dotween has that built in, Nice!

[@andrasczanik1112]

Hey, awesome video! I also use doTween for my project. So I know the libary, but your video was very well made and informative for me too. Keep up the good work!

[@chahdstudio8849]

very good video as always, still waiting for the scene set up and feel

[@ozancanacar8237]

Incredible tutorial thank you!

[@vittoriochiuselli5516]

U make me fall in love with this library

[@homemacai]

Subscribed! Amazing content mate!

[@Olelumos]

Great video. DOTween is my most critical tool on any game jam haha. My addition to this video would be: Kill VS Complete. You can Kill() a tween/sequence which has its corresponding onKill event. And the same goes for Complete() and onComplete. If you rely on something in an onComplete callback, this will not be called if the tween is killed. Just worth mentioning, since it also means you can add different behaviours by utilising both. Now I'm off to watch the async video :)

[@Tarodev]

Check out the first optional parameter for Kill 😉

[@toss2151988]

Super video thx! :) I use DOTween a lot but i learn some new stuff today :)

[@isabellebussolariarantes1328]

Great intro to Dotween. THANK YOU!

[@uhhmir]

how did you make this test project look so nice? everytime i try to use post processing or shaders it ends up looking like an asset flip

[@anna_silver_moon]

Awesome! 👍 Love you, Tarodev! 💖

[@ITomocska]

Awesome explanation, thank you!

[@freelancepakistangames7245]

Ok so I'm sitting at my computer getting frustrated over making a parabolic jump and then I find this (15:02) masterpiece. Thankyou so much Sir 🤤😍

[@WildG0ose]

Love the content! Those leaves looks really nice. Would you care to reveal how you made them?

[@SojoTaku]

Don't know if i need to learn dotween right now but I will still watch the video

[@RobLang]

Thanks for the great intro to DOtween! One thing jumped out at me. Seems like ages since your last video, hope you're doing OK. 5:28 - I disagree with "always be optimised as possible". Instead I would say that's premature optimisation and recommend measuring, deciding a frame budget and then optimising the bottlenecks using profiling tools. Much better to write the code as simply as possible for the audience of the code - be it someone else or future you. The compiler performs optimations that might make all your optimisations pointless. Your example is an excellent proof of my point. If the compiler detects that cycleLength is never changed it will make it a constant. Constant denominators are then anaylsed for their value and possibly converted to a multiplication. In this case, your denominator would be the integer 2, which is a bit shift operation! So if you did "/ 2" then it would be an order of magnitude faster than * 0.5! Argument against division are not optimisation but parametric chaining and divide by 0 errors. For example it's easy to see what 0.5 * 0.25 * 0.1 might look like but that does *not* transform into "/ 2 / 4 / 10".

[@THExRISER]

God bless man, LeanTween wouldn't even load into my project, but I found a better alternative AND a great guide to go with it. This is the second time you made something I benefitted from (First being the 2D platformer framework).

[@Tarodev]

Glad I could serve 😊

[@THExRISER]

@@Tarodev Cheers bro!

[@manuelgraca-gamedev7822]

Awesome video! Great explanation and great humour :D

[@Tarodev]

Glad to see somebody laughing with me and not at me 😂

[@madscientist338]

Thank you for the very informative video!

[@okandikkulak8057]

that local movement at 8:00 was cool

This async workflow with DOTween is very interesting. What about canceling before the tweens have finished? Did you look into that? I did not find a way to add a cancellation token to the tweens.

[@JimPlaysGames]

This is awesome, thank you! I've played around with DOTween but I found it a bit confusing, and this helps a lot. I am wondering, is there a way to update the target position of a DOMove while the tween is in progress? Like if I want an object to move towards the mouse cursor (but not be locked to it) and adjust its trajectory as the mouse cursor moves. So like it's chasing the mouse cursor. Is there a way to do that with DOTween? Cheers!

[@Tarodev]

This is actually not a good task for dotween. You're better off just lerping manually in this case 😊

[@Suley09]

Very useful info. Thx for sharing

[@voidling2632]

I use Leantween, which I really love. I may buy this one, it seems to have more functionality.

[@a3dadventure79]

i like the old school chain code! some of us started on single file projects :-)

[@retrodad9390]

Thanks! Saved me a lot of time!..

[@TwinStick]

DOT ween, or DO tween? (I pronounce DO tween - it really threw me off hearing DOT ween haha)

[@Tarodev]

It's probably Do Tween, but I just chuck it all together and make it one word 😊

[@jeffmccloud905]

The developer's previous version was called HOTween, so it's probably indeed pronounced "dot"

[@TwinStick]

@@jeffmccloud905 yeah that makes sense, now to train years of pronunciation out of me 😂😅

[@kingreinhold9905]

@@jeffmccloud905 Lol no their website literally colored "DO" and "Tween" in different colors 0:23

[@akitoakito]

Do Tween. The funny part is that all the sub functions are DoX (DoMove, DoMoveX, etc 2:35 ) but I still hear people say DOT ween. I guess they don't know that tween is an animation term.

[@VisualDima]

Why?! WHY?! Why you didn't do this video earlier?! I had no idea about all this nice features of Dotween. Thank you very much!

[@Altair8113]

Nice video man, keep up the good work. Do you have an easy way of tweening things to a moving target (without reseting the tween every frame)?

[@Tarodev]

Good question! For this I would actually manually lerp the transform. Specifically using MoveTowards.

[@Martiriak]

Yeah, I tried using Dotween and manually changing the target - it was a fucking nightmare, never again ahaha

[@AIAdev]

Thanks for this video past Tarodev. I’ve been doing some weird stuff to get some easing that DOTween does inherently

[@AIAdev]

Also… I missed that this was a Halloween video… the costume makes sense now, but I do kind of hope you bring this back and film all of your videos in a costume

[@Tarodev]

I'm glad I could offer assistance. Hopefully this makes up for yeeting your unicorn 🦄

[@ArnaudJopart]

I agree, I'm in love with DoTween. Pro version is a must. So no need to fight ! Great video, btw.

[@Tarodev]

You're lucky... I had my fists up ready to go

[@glassystudio]

Man just used Dotween for the games. It's absolutely best for the workflow and efficient too

[@saimmunir2841]

5:23 divided by two will make it rotate fast, exactly😐 Great tutorial, love ur work and positive energy❤️

[@BroxAGM]

it is duration so less duration same value = faster

[@_kyt_]

As someone coming over from using a lot of JS/jQuery in the last decade, DOTween looks really intuitive!

[@Tarodev]

Rip jquery. You served us well

[@grunglr]

Happy hallotween!

[@sufianahmad7337]

very well explained

[@gvilas]

And you can do amazing things not dependent on Time.Scale, example while pausing your game, your UI still have animations ;)

[@nanda_gamedev]

You can actually do that in regular Unity just so you know :) For Animations there should be a checkbox on the animator. In code you can just use Time.UnscaledTime

[@gvilas]

@@nanda_gamedev I know, but I'm totally against of using mecanim to animate UI

[@nanda_gamedev]

@@gvilas Oh yeah for UI i totally agree

[@MiTheMer]

Nice stuff! What do the Physics plugins do though? Haven't been able to find in the documentation.

[@Tarodev]

They move the object using rigibody.move. It's silly though as it will still move through other colliders... So I don't see the point. Maybe somebody could fill me in?

[@ardaozler631]

Amazing tutorial thank you yellow man

[@DaveUnreally]

It also is better on performance than an animation controller and skinned meshes. If and when you can, use DOTween!

[@kerbalette156]

Awesome channel. Glad I found it. Lol at your costume though brah

[@Tarodev]

Hope it didn't scare you too bad

[@howdy9517]

I notice you put the method on single called function (start, awake). From my noob experience isnt the movement need to do over time? (repeatly call function). What if we put the tween thingies on update()? Sorry i should test it myself but i'm too busy right now. But if you can enlight me that would be great. Anyway. Great videos!

[@Tarodev]

This is one of the advantages of the package. You can call them singularly and the lerping all happens behind the scenes!. It'd be a very bad idea calling a dotween method in update as it'd start a new tween every frame (allocating more memory).

[@howdy9517]

@@Tarodev Nice! gonna adapt my dotween in my project later. I've heard about it but never use.Tbh the documentation are scary as hell I dont even dare to touch it.

[@gameShu_Yaksha]

DoTween does generate around 25-50 KB of target per tween too quite often

[@teliph3U]

I have no clue about Unity but I'm a little bit confused about the function chaining. Will the move start instantly? Are the successive calls then modifying this move object? How would you create a move with these properties set from the start? 5:55 Ignoring any issues with representation of some floating point numbers, the compiler should be able to optimize your divisions. That sounds more like premature optimization that you should avoid.

[@avshkabura]

Thanks) I use it a lot)

[@Trollholetoll]

So I just found out about this and am new to animation. I was wondering how do you link the button to when you click it it does the animation? Also tysm for this this helped alot!

[@Senayoshy]

Silly question as I'm new to programming, but if say I wanted shape[2] to go before [0] and [1] how would I do that during the sequence? Thanks!

[@pandarzzz]

Instant like for his costume 👍👍🍻🍻

[@blakebudos7022]

Love your fucking videos. Got me somewhere I didn't know I could be.

[@kenjiju2174]

Thanks for the video. Do you have any tips on getting this working with intellisense in VS Code?

[@tysonwoods724]

Do you have any issues with multiple moves on screen at once? I’ve noticed when more than a couple moves are occurring at the same time, I see different computers have different issues from a blurred screen area to a system bogged down.

[@ShinichiKudoQatnip]

I love you for showing this 😍🤗😘

[@apubetico]

i use leantween and i love it

[@Xenthera]

Dotween is definitely essential, but it causes the most frustrating bugs

[@Pityon22]

Great vid, thanks and ofc subbed :)

[@Tarodev]

Welcome aboard the taro train

[@MandyLeeYT]

Love your costume! ❤️

[@Tarodev]

Tetris baby

[@Shonia]

If I want to punch a boxing glove to a moving target, how can I do it? when I set the destination and call it, the glove will go to that position which was remembered the call time. It needs somehow to update destination point.

[@NoTimeLeft_]

How does one 'ramp up' the speed of the rotate while keeping the looping infinite? SetEase can't do it. It needs to be at linear, otherwise after each rotation that speed resets and then eases in again. I've tried setting up a sequence but those don't support infinite loops. All I am looking to do it start something rotating slowly and over a certain duration reach a maximum rotation speed (or in the case of DOTween, a minimum rotate duration)

[@servalstar]

How can I change size of UI element with DOTween? Not scale - width or heigh.

[@jonathanwhittingham9345]

Great tutorial, I want to be able to spawn waves in a 2d shooter game like Galaga or scroller like Gradius, Any tips on how to achieve this ?

[@X360DevNerd]

This is great tutorial thanks!, May i ask. i am invoking a method to move to a random point in the game. but i am also applying rotation with DOTWEEN, how can i make the object change its rotation towards the new vector3?

[@Tarodev]

Find the relative direction between the two objects and then change your objects direction to that. Mobile phone code: var dir = goalTransform.position - transform.position; transform.rotation = Quaternion.lookDirection(dir)

[@bv5191]

Wow this addon is amazing

[@Tarodev]

B V. You're damn right about that

[@stephenmackenzie9016]

Awesome. It sits in a long line of game dev tools no one can pronounce, like Godot 👍🏻

[@MasterArrow]

I've been watching game dev content on KZbin for a long time, I'm shocked I haven't stumbled upon your awesome content until now. This one and the ObjectPooling explanation have been very helpful!

[@devzozo]

I like that there are extensions for rigidbody movement, as it'd be pretty bad to use transform movement on them.

[@Tarodev]

Yes and I suppose that's why it's there, but as it doesn't give you the benefits of collision detection etc, it seems a bit pointless. I could be missing the point entirely... Maybe I should ask the creator. I'll update this comment if I find an answer.

Thank you ❤

[@dimatsyutsyura5167]

Thank you. You are realy cool !) HAVE A NICE DAY ! LETS DO IT MORE AND MORE!

[@kelvoid3023]

Great video, thank you for going through so many example use cases. Maybe some one can help me out, I'm having trouble with that issue where if you trigger the Shake continuously it'll begin to offset the object from its original position, I cant seem to get the fix where we return out of the function if its already working. Apologies in advance I'm a novice programmer, while I understand the concept of why this works I'm uncertain how it's meant to be implemented. Thanks!

[@Tarodev]

Yeah, this has always been a problem for me. Just take note of the local position before starting the shake and reset it in the OnComplete callback

[@belajashark9211]

Thank you nice guy in a yellow cube! Before this video, I've googled for hours to find an example, how to use that goddamn OnComplete))))

[@Tarodev]

You're welcome

[@MohammadRashed.]

Can you do a tutorial on how you did the wind direction & Leaves particles

[@this-is-gamedev]

Cool video! DOTWeen is also in my top 3 assets for Unity. I made a video about that, but much less complete than this :D

[@Tarodev]

Nice video and good top 3. Good luck with your channel! 👌

[@EZboyrocks]

Let's say I want an object to pop off of the board with a simulated force and gravity, where it'll pop up or to the side and simulate falling out of the screen with gravity, would that be possible in DOTWEEN? Or should I just use like a 2D physics engine, would that be easier?

[@Tarodev]

Although you can create an ease which can simulate physics, it does sound like a job for the physics engine. Of course that makes it non-deterministic. So you'll have to decide what you need most.

[@EZboyrocks]

@@Tarodev Thanks! Would you recommend using like a Rigidbody 2D?

[@EZboyrocks]

@@Tarodev Sorry, pretty new to unity and game dev lol

[@Tarodev]

@@EZboyrocks I would recommend exactly that :)

[@EZboyrocks]

@@Tarodev Thanks!

[@LostSol25]

Hi quick question, how do i sequence multiple objects to move then constantly loop, like you did at 8.50 but constantly looping?

[@LostSol25]

nevermind i figured it out, i can use sequence.Restart

[@If_Jay]

How do you see all method overloads like that (mini window over the method name) on VS?

[@Tarodev]

Resharper adds a bunch of useful features, code snippets, auto-import etc. I usually turn it off while doing tutorials but I forgot this time, woops!

[@If_Jay]

@@Tarodev thanks 🐙

[@wholebitmedia]

Have you tried using DOTween as a character controller? It seems to be only good for moving things around in a one shot way. It doesn't seem to work with regular axis input.

[@Tarodev]

Oh yes, it's certainly not suitable for any kind of dynamic movement where the end goal is changing. People have tried... and failed

[@paulkruger4156]

Is there a way to do scale and rotate of the same item at the same time?

[@Tarodev]

Absolutely! I showcase that in the shake demo towards the end :)

[@TabletopTriumphs2]

Does SetLoops work on any function or just the ones in dotween?

[@Tarodev]

It's specifically a Dotween function :)

[@TabletopTriumphs2]

@@Tarodev thank you.