how can i read the movement of a transform the same way i would a mouse axis ?

[anon86624199]

how can i get a readout of the movement of an object ? so far i can get the position of an object as a vector but i only want to know by how much it is moving so that i can add this to an other object ,a mouse controled cursor ,so that it dosent get left behing when the player moves

[DaveA]

I don't know if there's a better way, but one way would be to save the position then subtract it on subsequent Update calls, for instance, and get the velocity that way.

var lastPos : Vector3;
var lastVelocity : Vector3;

function Start()
{
  lastPos = transform.position;
  lastVelocity = Vector.zero;
}

function Update()
{
  deltaPos = transform.position - lastPos;
  lastPos = transform.position;
  direction = deltaPos.normalized;
  velocity = deltaPos * Time.deltaTime;
  deltaVelocity = velocity - lastVelocity;
  acceleration = deltaVelocity * Time.deltaTime;
  .. and so on..
}