Lerp smoothing is broken

Freya Holmér291K subscribers

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Corrects a widespread game-programming mistake with clear derivations.

What you'll learn

Why the common 'lerp smoothing' trick is frame-rate dependent, and the exponential-decay formulation that fixes it.

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