Movement Speed

[Megafyr]

How far does a unit move in game per second based on its movement speed value?

 

[sephiroth1234]

How far does a unit move in game per second based on its movement speed value?

I think there is no fixed value... It depends, as you see, if a unit movement speed is 522(max in WC3 world editor), it moves at a distance ranging from 125~150 per second of game time. Maybe there's a formula... Like: ((Movement speed of specific unit)/(3.5)=Covered distance per second of game time
Note:
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[tml616]

I'm pretty sure it's movement speed is in units/second

 

[Adiktuz]

I'm pretty sure it's movement speed is in units/second

I think so too...

 

[Svenski]

I was wondering about this too. Had a few discussions with friends locally about it. We all concurred that movespeed is indeed units/second. Same with fields like projectile speed, i would assume.

 

[tml616]

Note almost every bnet game is played on "fast" instead of "normal," which might change it a little.

 

[Catch_ya]

Same with fields like projectile speed, i would assume.

I don't know if it is the right but projectile systems uses something like PERIOD*SPEED.
Where Period is the timer like 0.04
and speed is the missile speed like 700. I don't know if the following is right through, but I think that it means the missile moves 700 coordinates in the second. atleast 0.04 * 700 = 28 that means that the projectile is moving 28 coordinates each PERIOD. Hope it helped in someway. This should count for units too since a projectile is a unit.

 

[Maker]

For example, Shockwave (Tauren hero ability) has moving speed of 1050. That's equivalent to moving a distance of 31.5 every 0.03 seconds. 1050*0.03 = 31.5.

So I'd say a moving speed of 270 is equivalent of moving 270 distance units per second.

 

[sephiroth1234]

For example, Shockwave (Tauren hero ability) has moving speed of 1050. That's equivalent to moving a distance of 31.5 every 0.03 seconds. 1050*0.03 = 31.5.

So I'd say a moving speed of 270 is equivalent of moving 270 distance units per second.

I agree with Maker's conlusion.

 

[Catch_ya]

For example, Shockwave (Tauren hero ability) has moving speed of 1050. That's equivalent to moving a distance of 31.5 every 0.03 seconds. 1050*0.03 = 31.5.

So I'd say a moving speed of 270 is equivalent of moving 270 distance units per second.

I was thinking the same. But I'm pretty sure thats true.

 

[Dr Super Good]

It moves as far as the movement speed per second in ingame units. If a unit has a movement speed of 100 it will move 100 WC3 units in 1 second.

 

[D4RK_G4ND4LF]

Note almost every bnet game is played on "fast" instead of "normal," which might change it a little.

just tried that but it did not make any difference
I made a trigger which ran every second and displayed the distance between the new and last position
additionally I set the game speed to "slowest" and "fastest" and the time was the same in both cases
this leads me to the conclusion that a "second" in warcraft 3 is not a real second all the time

however, units move a little slower than their max movement speed
(I had a bloodmage with 500 ms running a very long straight line and he had 499.99 and 484.99 ms [swapped every second] )

edit:
at "fastest" a real second is equal to an ingame second while at "slowest" a second is equal to something like 1,6
and from time to time the bloodmage also ran 502.17 ms (not that often though)

 

[Svenski]

just tried that but it did not make any difference
I made a trigger which ran every second and displayed the distance between the new and last position
additionally I set the game speed to "slowest" and "fastest" and the time was the same in both cases
this leads me to the conclusion that a "second" in warcraft 3 is not a real second all the time

however, units move a little slower than their max movement speed
(I had a bloodmage with 500 ms running a very long straight line and he had 499.99 and 484.99 ms [swapped every second] )

edit:
at "fastest" a real second is equal to an ingame second while at "slowest" a second is equal to something like 1,6
and from time to time the bloodmage also ran 502.17 ms (not that often though)

Yo that's some good stuff D4RK_G4ND4LF, + rep!

 

[Dr Super Good]

The unit going slower than max movement speed is due to rounding errors (limited float precision) and latencies with subpathing update routeens.

 

[D4RK_G4ND4LF]

The unit going slower than max movement speed is due to rounding errors (limited float precision)

this explains why it is 499.99 instead of 500 but what about the other values?

...and latencies with subpathing update routeens.