Value of velocity

[akamal]

I want to calculate current velocity of a body in m/s and its acceleration. How should I do that

[slembcke]

Chipmunk doesn't have any explicit units. Generally people just use 1 unit = 1 pixel. Time also doesn't have explicit units, but I can't really imagine anybody using anything other than seconds really.

If you create your objects assuming that 1 unit = 1 meter, then the units of the cpBody.v field will be in meters/second. If you want to calculate the acceleration, you'll have to store the velocity from the last frame and do some numerical differentiation to estimate it. Basically just (speedThisFrame - speedLastFrame)/timeStep.

[akamal]

cpBody.v is a vector (value is according to x y). How Can I get a single value in float.

[slembcke]

cpvlength(body->v)

[akamal]

Thanks