Question by morhhn · May 12, 2020 at 09:14 PM · c#rigidbody velocity movement script acceleration

Rigidbody. Acceleration of free falling object works bad

Jumped into Unity just a few days ago and trying to understand the basics.

I wanted to calculate movement's velocity of my objects and display it on the scene. When I had done it I noticed that acceleration of my objects was increasing not very well. I expected the changes of velocity during time like this way: 1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 1.75. 2.00. And in reality I got something like this: 1.00, 1.25. 1.50, 1.25, 1.75, 2.00.

I double-checked the math around Vector3.Magnitude and Time.DeltaTime properties but it works good. The issue is in position's changes of my object. Sometimes it doesn't increase sufficiently.

In this simplified code with free falling object my problem case still works:

Create new 3d project -> Add 3d Sphere GameObject -> Add rigidbody component -> Create script for Sphere object

 public class SomeScript : MonoBehaviour
 {
     UnityEngine.Vector3 previousPositon;
     float time = 0.25f;

     void Start()
     {
         previousPositon = transform.position;
         InvokeRepeating("Do", 0, time);
     }

     private void Do()
     {
         var magnitude = (transform.position - previousPositon).magnitude;
         System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write($"magnitude: {magnitude}, velocity: {magnitude / time}");
         previousPositon = transform.position;
     }
 }

And in few seconds I got:

magnitude: 20,36554, velocity: 81,46216

magnitude: 22,70029, velocity: 90,80115

magnitude: 21,54272, velocity: 86,1709

magnitude: 23,97562, velocity: 95,90247

magnitude: 22,71991, velocity: 90,87964

magnitude: 25,25085, velocity: 101,0034

magnitude: 23,89713, velocity: 95,5885

magnitude: 26,52618, velocity: 106,1047

Im stuck here. Thanks.

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