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Measuring speed and distance on ROBLOX

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Quenty is not online. Quenty
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12 Aug 2012 05:09 PM
How is the best way to measure speed on ROBLOX? I mean, we all use studs per a second, or whatnot, studs is the unit. But what if we want to abbreviate it? Should it be 'Sps'? (Studs Per a Second?), like MpS or MpH? What is the best way to do it?
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KIDNOMORR is not online. KIDNOMORR
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12 Aug 2012 05:13 PM
It is studs per second. Walkspeed also measure by second.
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SCARFACIAL is not online. SCARFACIAL
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12 Aug 2012 05:15 PM
"It is studs per second. Walkspeed also measure by second."

wat
You don't traverse 16 studs per second by default.
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Candymaniac is not online. Candymaniac
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12 Aug 2012 05:16 PM
I think you'll just need to measure the player's character's overall velocity as walkspeed does not provide an accurate overview of the speed in which the character is travelling if it is falling or moving very fast inside a vehicle.

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kirkyturky12 is not online. kirkyturky12
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12 Aug 2012 05:24 PM
I leik measuring the kinetic energy of stuff.
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3543 is not online. 3543
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12 Aug 2012 05:25 PM
SPS makes the most sense. And, from what Roblox says, a foot is a few studs so a mile must be very, very long. So definitely not MPH and MPS would be like .012345678

"wat
You don't traverse 16 studs per second by default."

It just seems like we don't. I think I remember doing a test once where I measured the distance the character traveled every second ant it was about 16.
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Candymaniac is not online. Candymaniac
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12 Aug 2012 05:26 PM
ROBLOX should make an official judgement on a scale of a stud. I hope they don't make it using the imperial system as they are hard to understand and the metric system is much more internationally friendly.

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ArceusInator is not online. ArceusInator
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12 Aug 2012 05:26 PM
1 stud = 1 foot

Btw, WalkSpeed and Sps are not the same thing.
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Anaminus is not online. Anaminus
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12 Aug 2012 05:29 PM
"1 stud = 1 foot"

20 studs == 1 meter exactly. Anything else is wrong.
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KIDNOMORR is not online. KIDNOMORR
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12 Aug 2012 05:31 PM
All hail anaminus.
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3543 is not online. 3543
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12 Aug 2012 05:37 PM
Arceus, I specifically remember the Roblox blog stating that like, 4.5 studs is an inch or something.

http://blog.roblox.com/2012/06/testing-the-accuracy-of-roblox-physics-with-potato-cannons/

"In ROBLOX, one real-world meter is 20 studs."

A meter is about equal to a yard (Meters are better though!), so we can see that one roblox stud is not a foot. One foot in Roblox is about 6.6 stud.


And walkspeed:

while true do print(Workspace.Player.Torso.Velocity.magnitude) wait() end

I walk, and I get a bunch of 16's in the output.
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3543 is not online. 3543
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12 Aug 2012 05:38 PM
Anaminus beat me to it. But I provided a source!
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Candymaniac is not online. Candymaniac
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12 Aug 2012 05:50 PM
20 studs == 1 meter?

Wow...

Everything looks so big.

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aboy5643 is not online. aboy5643
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12 Aug 2012 07:11 PM
So using math:

Character = 5 studs in height
meter = 20 studs

5/20 = .25 meters. WTF? Obvious inaccuracies are inaccurate. Why would they pick that as the standard of measurement when it doesn't scale to anything in the game??? That makes no sense at all... It should be 3 studs = 1 meter. Then things would scale better.
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TheMyrco is not online. TheMyrco
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12 Aug 2012 07:15 PM
""1 stud = 1 foot"

20 studs == 1 meter exactly. Anything else is wrong."

HOLY COW. The thing I am building is 40 meters in real life O.O (80 studs)
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ENET is not online. ENET
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12 Aug 2012 07:18 PM
@TheMyrco

20 studs == 1 meter
80 studs / 20 = 4 not 40.
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TheMyrco is not online. TheMyrco
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12 Aug 2012 07:21 PM
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

800 studs!?
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NXTBoy is not online. NXTBoy
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12 Aug 2012 07:24 PM
You could call a stud a "Roblox unit" (Ru), and go for Ru⋅s⁻¹
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Anaminus is not online. Anaminus
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12 Aug 2012 08:14 PM
Proposal:

1 hunk == 10 studs
1 hulk == 10 hunks
1 brawn == 10 hulks
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Quenty is not online. Quenty
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12 Aug 2012 08:18 PM
Is the velocity.magnitude per a second?
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belial52 is not online. belial52
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12 Aug 2012 10:57 PM
I like Anaminus's idea.
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Robloxianof07 is not online. Robloxianof07
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12 Aug 2012 11:04 PM
Proposal:

1 kidnomor == 10 studs
1 Foot Fungus== kidnomor's
1 Poop nugget == Foot Fungi.
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crystalcat612 is not online. crystalcat612
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12 Aug 2012 11:32 PM
1 small poo = 1 stud
medium poo = 10 small poos
big poo = 10 medium poos
ultimate poo = 10000000 big poos
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Robloxianof07 is not online. Robloxianof07
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12 Aug 2012 11:33 PM
yay for ultimate poo!!!
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coplox is not online. coplox
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12 Aug 2012 11:47 PM
This simply means that, if we take our ROBLOX characters, and make life-sized models of them, they would be about the same size as the dolls you see in stores.
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