Animating camera to move from one point to another

Questions
1

Hello I am looking for help.

I currently have an Arc rotate camera that i want to animate from one point to another.
I have a button that has a left and right click. When you click the buttons, this subtracts or adds to the camera.beta values by about 0.54. However, when i try to animate the camera with this.camera.position, the values before and after i subtract the beta values are the same.

Ex:
let current = camera.position (vector3)
(Button clicked) (camera.beta - 0.54)
let destination = camera.position (vector3)

let easing = new QuadraticEase()
easing.setEasingMode(EasingFunction.EASINGMODE_EASEIN)
Animation.CreateAndStartAnimation(
“slideIn”,
camera,
“position”,
30,
60,
current,
destination,
0,
easing,
callback
)

So what am i doing wrong here? Should i be animating the camera.beta values instead and what does that looks like? I don’t want the camera to snap into place but to smoothly move from the one position to the other. Thanks

2

Hello,
Here is an example of an animation based on the camera.beta property (use key ‘z’ and ‘s’ to start the animations) :
https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#DQ2ARV#1

If you just want to rotate the camera around your target (keeping the same distance), this seems to be the easiest way to do it.
If that doesn’t help, please share a repro in the playground.