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BunnyBoy26 is not online. BunnyBoy26
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11 Oct 2012 10:27 PM
I want to know: How many feet do you guys think are in 1 Roblox stud?

A character travels at 16 studs per second. If the conversion rate were 1 Stud = 1 foot, then one would move at almost 11 miles per hour, which I believe is a quick running pace.

Traveling at this speed, one can complete a mile run in five and a half minutes.

Now notice how the Robloxian looks when traveling at this pace.
It just doesn't seem right.

So what do you guys think should be the conversion rate?
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69scott69 is not online. 69scott69
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12 Oct 2012 02:27 AM
ROBLOX physics don't really seem to convert well to the real world. If you think of a character as about 5 ft tall, or roughly 5 studs then the distance seems legit. But if you do the speed conversion, a character seems to be walking at 11 mph!
I just think of a ROBLOX character as the size of a LEGO mini character and build to scale that way.
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scacman1967 is not online. scacman1967
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12 Oct 2012 09:25 AM
The conversion I use is 1 inch = 0.1 stud. A stud is 1.2 high , and if you laid it on it's side you will find that your conversion would be more accurate. So with your method for every stud you calculate you are losing .2 of the distance.
Another thing to remember is that the walk speed is changable. By default it is sped up to make game play faster.
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MarioMario53212 is not online. MarioMario53212
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12 Oct 2012 04:00 PM
Depends on if a person is standing on the stud
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GloriousMushroom is not online. GloriousMushroom
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12 Oct 2012 06:36 PM
1 foot

Troll face
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BunnyBoy26 is not online. BunnyBoy26
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12 Oct 2012 08:30 PM
ok, I'll use 1 ft = 1/12 stud.

And incase you guys wanted to know:

You know how when you stretch out a truss, it has a maximum length?
Parts have a maximum length, too, but it is much larger (2048 studs).

If you wanted your robloxian to travel at the speed of light for one second without falling off and dying, you would need 400,217 bricks at a minimum.

c = fast.
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Solotaire is not online. Solotaire
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12 Oct 2012 08:39 PM
"ROBLOX physics don't really seem to convert well to the real world."

http://blog.roblox.com/2012/06/testing-the-accuracy-of-roblox-physics-with-potato-cannons/
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mynameis272 is not online. mynameis272
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12 Oct 2012 08:56 PM
the hed is about one stud
the torso is two
the legs are two
the average step is about from the knee down
wicth should be about one stud
or one foot is 12 in
lets say the track is about 1575 ft
converted in to inches is 18900
the awnser is 226800 studs
if he can travel 600 studs per sec it will take him (idk)
378it will take him 378 sec
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69scott69 is not online. 69scott69
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12 Oct 2012 09:02 PM
But according to that article:

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

So any conversion that uses 1 stud=roughly 1 foot doesn't match the articles physics...
In ROBLOX's estimation that would make your character = 5studs high/20 studs =1/4 meter = 25 cm. tall.
Your character should be approximately 1.8 meter tall * 20 studs/meter = 36 studs tall.

So I stand by my logic when I stated "ROBLOX physics don't really seem to convert well to the real world."

Hehe, besides, if your character is 5 studs high, it is 4 studs wide at the shoulders and 1 stud deep which throws all reference of measuring out the window (5 ft x 4 ft x 1 foot!).
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Solotaire is not online. Solotaire
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12 Oct 2012 09:05 PM
ROBLOXians are based on plastic blocks, not humans. I generally don't have individual meter-long Lego pieces, do you?
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69scott69 is not online. 69scott69
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12 Oct 2012 09:11 PM
Hehe nope, that's why I base my 'measurements' on building around a character and don't worry about actual measurements, just the scale of the parts compared to my avatar.
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BunnyBoy26 is not online. BunnyBoy26
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12 Oct 2012 09:14 PM
@Solotaire

That is exactly a source of how Roblox conversions are screwed up. According to that, a character is less than 1 foot tall!
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Solotaire is not online. Solotaire
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12 Oct 2012 09:57 PM
@Bunny,
How tall are most plastic toys?
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BunnyBoy26 is not online. BunnyBoy26
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12 Oct 2012 10:20 PM
I am just saying, it seems more realistic for your character to cause a sonic boom at a WalkSpeed of 931 than needing to be as fast as 6806.
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jack48271 is not online. jack48271
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21 Oct 2012 04:36 PM
I have seen a thread where a guy asked how tall is a ROBLOX character. If you think about it you cannot really tell virtually. I could put a ruler up to my screen and just say he/she is about 2 cm's but no. It doesn't work like that. ROBLOX character's move like normal human beings I suppose you could say they are just blocky. So measure the average humans step and compare it to a ROBLOX player in game it'd probably be around there.
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birdfluhjhj2 is not online. birdfluhjhj2
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27 Nov 2013 11:30 AM
1 stud is approximately 2 inches (1.968505 inches to be exact)
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Babyfett1 is not online. Babyfett1
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09 Jul 2014 12:37 PM
Well.
The average human's size heightwise is 5'5-5'7 so I'd say 5'6. The default character model standing is approximately 4.2 studs and if you do the math of 5.5/4.2 then you'd get the stud size is 1.30952380952 feet, so a stud is 0.399142857141696 of a meter. This is the most accurately possible way to measure, pretty much. So if you didn't read through all of that a stud is 0.399142857141696 (0.4) Meters and 1.30952380952 (1.31) feet.
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RogoawsomeInDisguise is not online. RogoawsomeInDisguise
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31 Jul 2014 07:45 PM
"According to the Roblox Blog, 1 real-life meter is equal to 20 ROBLOX studs, so a stud is 5 centimeters, and a real-life ROBLOXian (that is 5 studs tall) would be about 10 inches tall."-ROBLOX Wiki

you guys do the math i'm too lazy
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