HumanoidRootPart.Velocity.Y always showing 0 regardless of height

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#1

I was making an easy fall damage script by monitoring root velocity following this post Best way to make fall damage? - #5 by Weldify . But the fallVelocity always prints 0 no matter how high I fall from.
I have tried to measure the velocity of baseParts too but they also show 0. Have I done something wrong in the script? Or Roblox doesn’t measure velocity anymore?

This is the server script:

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)	
Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)	
	local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local root=Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
	local damagePerVelocity=10
	local fallVelocity = root.Velocity.Y
	Humanoid.StateChanged:Connect(function (old, new)
		if old==Enum.HumanoidStateType.Freefall and new==Enum.HumanoidStateType.Landed then
			print(old)
			print(new)
			print(fallVelocity)
			if fallVelocity>1 then			
				Humanoid:TakeDamage(fallVelocity * damagePerVelocity)
			end
		end
	end)
end)
end)

Sorry If I don’t reply soon, Its 1 AM here

#2

You can’t do it on the server.

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#4

it gives you 0 because when you launch you are not street, you have to put the print above

#5

This post is a year old now. The guy has undoubtedly moved on from this project.

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