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How do I get the velocity of a player?

I already tried

, where “player” is a player object.
But it returns nil.

Wuzzy wrote:How do I get the velocity of a player?

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid we can't do that: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/1176

However, you can maybe try comparing player positions between two steps.

Calinou wrote:

Wuzzy wrote:How do I get the velocity of a player?

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid we can't do that: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/1176

However, you can maybe try comparing player positions between two steps.

v = Δs / Δt :)

Too bad I also want to set the velocity of a player. :(

How about attaching an invisible LuaEntitySAO to the player, and then manipulating that SAO? Kinda hacky, but might work.