Determining speed

Scripting
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Hi guys

How can I determine the world velocity of a transform/rigidbody component?

thanks

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rigidbody.velocity

–Eric

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Thanks erci, the problem is that I get an message saying that I cannot convert vector3 to int. I need to limit my speed value to e.g 100 or whatever…

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sorry, “eric” :wink:

5

I got that problem sorted, but now I realised that the velocity gives the 3 vectors seperately, so I need to find a way to convert this into a constant speed value, irrespective of which direction I’m going. Any body have some ideas?

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A Vector3 has a value “magnitude” which holds this value.

Something like myVelocity = rigidbody.magnitude, it is basically sqrt(x^2 + y^2 + z^2). You can tell that it would be a little expensive to calculate, especially for many objects, but that’s what you need.

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Thanks for the help. one more question…

How can I cast this…

rigidbody.velocity.magnitude;

…to a int value? I noticed that, if I times the above code by 1…

rigidbody.velocity.magnitude *1;

…it gives me a consistant value, but shurely that can’t be the correct way???

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guys!!!

sorry, I’m an idiot! just ignore my previous post and use

speed = rigidbody.velocity.magnitude;

It gives a rounded value.