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I made the below function as you might find it useful to animate multiple floating arrows, as alternative to the static approach above. Use createAnimatedArrow(...) instead of createMarker(...) for your arrow. It uses the stream in/out events so we don't waste CPU on markers that are far away. You could further optimise it to bind/unbind the render event at the first and last stream in / out, saving 1 pairs call. local markers = {} local animationMethod = "InOutQuad" -- What easing function to use, see https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Easing local animationTime = 1000 -- The time for the animation to go from bottom to top local animationAmplitude = 0.3 -- How far the marker will move local function onAnimationFrame(dt) for marker,anim in pairs(markers) do -- Check if marker is still valid or destroyed if isElement(marker) then -- Find animation progress from time since last frame local delta = dt / animationTime anim.t = anim.t + delta * anim.direction -- Reverse direction if we are above 1 or below 0 if anim.t < 0 then anim.direction = anim.direction * -1 anim.t = 0 elseif anim.t > 1 then anim.direction = anim.direction * -1 anim.t = 1 end -- Find the easing value (usually a 0-1 value) from our animation progress (0-1) local anim_time = getEasingValue(anim.t, animationMethod) -- Find the z value we want to offset with local z_anim = animationAmplitude * anim_time setElementPosition(marker, anim.x, anim.y, anim.z + z_anim) else -- Dereference it markers[marker] = nil end end end addEventHandler("onClientPreRender", root, onAnimationFrame) local function onArrowMarkerStreamIn() if markers[source] then return end -- Store the position -- 't' to keep track of the animation progress -- 'direction' to keep track of whether we are moving up or down local x, y, z = getElementPosition(source) markers[source] = {t = 0, direction = 1, x = x, y = y, z = z} end local function onArrowMarkerStreamOut() if not markers[source] then return end -- If the marker element is still valid, set it to its original position if isElement(source) then setElementPosition(source, markers[source].x, markers[source].y, markers[source].z) end -- Dereference marker markers[source] = nil end function createAnimatedArrow(x, y, z, markerType, ...) if markerType ~= "arrow" then return false end local marker = createMarker(x, y, z, markerType, ...) if not marker then return false end -- Use the stream in / stream out events to only animate markers that are nearby addEventHandler("onClientElementStreamIn", marker, onArrowMarkerStreamIn) addEventHandler("onClientElementStreamOut", marker, onArrowMarkerStreamOut) return marker end If your markers are serverside, or you want to change its position after creating it, you'll have to change a few things, let me know if you need help.