Distance formula and measurement calculations

[Chris]

http://ru1337.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17

Has a few measurement types. May or may not be useful.

[Sajt]

That's a lot of lines of code for just doing 'result = vlen(trace_endpos - self.origin)

Also your scale seems to be odd. The accepted scale is 8 quake units = 12 inches, yours seems to be 6 inches.

Other than that it's nifty I guess

[Chris]

First site i saw it said 16 qu = 1ft, i guess its actually closer to 8. Also for mathematical history purposes i used the real 3d distance formula. So ya I'll change it from devinding by 16 to 8. Also changed the inches from 1 1/3 to 2/3.

Number wise it looked better by 16, mainly because the quake guy hauls ass from 0-60mph when running and by 16 the numbers look more realistic in terms of distance.

[Urre]

Correct measurements are 8 qu = 1 foot, or 12 inch. 1 qu is 1.5 inches. Ask feh in #darkplaces, he knows

[Sajt]

Well, feh's 8 qu = 12 inches is the most accepted one when you're forced to accept a scale, but usually people just leave them at quake units because Quake has no consistent scale anyway.

The 'real' distance stuff you use is the same as vlen(trace_endpos - self.origin).

[Spike]

I demand leagues!

But yeah, quakeguy is 32 qu wide and 52 high, so he's pretty fat. quakeunits clearly have a different scale in different axis...


Oh, and regarding that rotating doors tut, I think you have to use self.ltime rather than time if you want velocity / avelocity to work as predicted. Something about movetype_push being absurd...

[FrikaC]

Must have cubits.