How to animate a models rotation across its axis in RealityKit

Oscar de la Hera Gomez
Three flowers that represent SwiftUI, RealityKit and XCode side by side. Beneath them sits the text "Animate Model Across Axis".

To animate a model across its axis, use a FromToByAnimation.

The code for the demonstration detailed on this post can be found at the tutorials/immersive-spaces/position-scale-and-rotation-with-animation branch within the repository below.

A screenshot of XCode showing the code that creates the animation.

Specifically, the code that creates the animation can be found in the SampleImmersiveView under line 24.

This code: 

  • Determines the transform that the model needs to animate.
  • Creates the FromToAnimation using the transform derived in the previous point.
  • Applies the animation to the model using AnimationResource.generate(...).

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