speed and forceSpeed

[brandungskeiler 10]

Hello,

since I'm really unsatisfied (:pray:) with the current implementation of the "COLUMN" formation using vehicles I decided to write a convoy script. Well, the first version works so far (at least much better than the column formation) but there's one very strange thing:

The command

speed <object>

returns the speed of the specified object in km/h. If I force the speed of the unit using the command

<object> forceSpeed <speed>

things get messed up. E.g. if I pass the argument 10 to the forceSpeed command

vehicle forceSpeed 10;

a call to the speed command (vehicle travelling at "stable" speed)

_actualSpeed = speed vehicle;

tells me that it is travelling approximately 30.

Uh,...what? But: The ratio of these values is 1/3 (of course you can do it the other way...). This is close to the "magic number" 0.278 that is used to convert from km/h to m/s, and if I use this "magic number" as a scaling factor everything works fine.

So, am I doing something wrong, is this a known issue and I missed the corresponding thread or can anyone confirm that?

Thanks

[wiper 0]

dunno actually but i definately read once that one velocity function was in m/s and another one was in km/h (1 : 3.6)

so it looks like you are facing that right away

[brandungskeiler 10]

Further tests confirm the assumption.

I'm sorry to say, but it seems like the people at BI lost track of their product. I shouldn't be at all surprised if all the other bugs that I'm encountering are due to similar "bugs"...

[Benneb 10]

Its not a bug.

Its a feature! :D

[brandungskeiler 10]

Its not a bug.

Its a feature! :D

I appreciate that ;)

[wiper 0]

lol nah, its just a small oversight from whoever wrote/edited that part in the BIKI.

using the original comref from BIS http://www.arma2.com/comref/full.html#ObjectforceSpeedNumber we can find at least no dimension unit defined for that function ;)