AccelerationProbability
The per-frame chance that a levitating unit with nothing to head for thrusts off in a random direction.
- Applies to
- levitation controls
- File
rules.ini- Section
[LEVITATION]- Value
- floating point
- When omitted
0.01
A levitating unit with neither a target nor a destination wanders by thrusting in random directions. On each frame it may thrust, it rolls a fraction from 0 to 1 and starts a thrust when the roll is below this figure. The direction is random over the whole circle, so the wandering has no bias.
The unit rolls in two situations:
- It is at rest, and its mission is neither sticky nor sleep.
- It is coasting after an earlier thrust, at a speed below
MaxVelocityWhenHappy. The mission is not checked here.
At 0.01, a unit at rest starts a thrust about once every 100 frames, roughly every seven seconds. At 0, a levitating unit with nothing to head for never starts a thrust, so once at rest it stays put. At 1 or more, it thrusts on every frame it is allowed to.
Drag explains which objects use [LEVITATION] and why a file’s [LEVITATION] section is read only when the file also has a [General] section.