WorldViz User Forum - Calculating Speed with sensor

Hello,

Right now I am trying to figure out how to calculate speed with a sensor. I know that speed is the rate of change with respect to time. So change of position / time.

I know I need to get the position(pos) of the sensor first. Then i have to have a def: that will check for its new pos then do the calculation - (new pos - old pos) / time. Then after that I need to start over and set the new pos to old pos.

The problem im having is trying to establish a pos before the def: starts running. Whenever I test for the old position i keep getting 0.0, 0.0, 0.0.

So its going to look something like this:

Code:



import viz

viz.go()



PORT_PPT = 6



for x in range(1):

     #Create sensors

     ppt1 = viz.add('vizppt.dls')

     ppt2 = viz.add('vizppt.dls')



     ball1 = viz.add('white_vall.wrl')

     ball1.scale(1,1,1)

     ballLink1 = viz.link(ppt1, ball1)



     ball2 = viz.add('white_vall.wrl')

     ball2.scale(1,1,1)

     ballLink2 = viz.link(ppt2, ball2)

 

     #controls distance in virtual world

     ballLink1.postScale([8,1,13],target = viz.LINK_FULL_OP)

     ballLink2.postScale([8,1,13],target = viz.LINK_FULL_OP)



#I need to check for ball1 pos before here

def speed():

      #need to check for new pos for ball1 here

      #need to somehow get old pos of ball1 so i can do the equation 

      #new pos - old pos /2(=1/2 second)

      if speed > 1:

           #some reaction happens in here

      #need to set old pos = new pos



vizact.ontimer(.5, speed)

Ive been trying to write this to work without errors but i keep getting them. I still new to vizard and python so any explanation would help also.

Thanks