Monday Sep 5 3:05

Mike "Tango Whiskey" Lawrence — 2005-09-05T03:05:49+00:00

Character Speed Chart. This post explains how character travel speeds are set and provides a chart with approximate speeds for different settings.

This is a chart for various player speeds.

As a baseline, I timed a player walking from one edge of a terrain tile to the other. This took 3 minutes, which gives a default speed of 40 Km/hr. (Approximately 24 mph). This was travelling over the moderately hilly terrain in the tutorial.base file, so the actual travel speed is a little higher. Of note, Edward Maurina, in his [url]Essential Guide to Torque[/url], states that the default maximum speed is 68 Km/hr. My empirical results deviate from this quite a bit.

The default settings for player speeds in /server/player.cs are:

maxForwardSpeed = 14;
maxBackwardSpeed = 13;
maxSideSpeed = 13;

These are found under "datablock PlayerData(PlayerShape)"

Using 14=40 Km/hr as a baseline, here is a settings chart for different speeds.

SETTING SPEED (Km/hr) SPEED (mph)

14 40 25
13 37 23
12 34 21
11 31 19
10 28 18
9 25 16
8 22 14
7 20 12
6 17 11
5 14 9
4 11 7
3 9 5
2 6 4
1 3 2

If anyone experiments with travel speeds and comes up with something substantially different, please advise.

-Tango Whiskey

Blog for Mike "Tango Whiskey" Lawrence at GarageGames.com

Monday Sep 5 3:05