How to get the magnitude of the velocity of the HumanoidRootPart without using deprecated work?

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#1

So before, I was able to calculate how my ROBLOX character moves using:

local velocity = HumanoidRootPart.Velocity
local magnitude = velocity.Magnitude

if magnitude > 0 then
    print("HumanoidRootPart's velocity->magnitude: " .. magnitude)
end

Is there another alternative besides using the deprecated Velocity property of BasePart? I have no idea where to go with this.

#2

Save the current cframe every frame, and on the next frame, find the distance between the current CFrame and Cframe from the last frame.

#3

Doesn’t work. I can already tell by this answer.

#4

Calculating this could be done via the following properties/method which were released last month:

AssemblyLinearVelocity
AssemblyAngularVelocity
:GetVelocityAtPosition

A Roblox Staff member confirmed in the Release Notes that using part:GetVelocityAtPosition(part.Position) is how you could replicate the old Velocity property, but the AssemblyLinearVelocity property is what the majority of use cases may require.

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#5

Sounds legit. I’ll mark as solution.

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