What is the equation used to calculate the max speed in which a character falls due to gravity?
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Terminal velocity can only be reached when there is a frictional force while the character is falling. There is nothing like this by default that I know of, so the character will keep accelerating forever.
If you wanted to add a drag force the terminal velocity would be:
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There are plenty of ways you can calculate the speed of an object in flowlab.
For starters, you can simply extract the current Y velocity using an extractor behavior.
No calculation is needed.
(there is also the option to extract x velocity and plenty more)
Suppose you want to calculate the overall velocity of an object. In that case, you can use the “Velocity Calc” bundle by JR (honestly, the original version & math circled a lot, so let’s say it is just from the community), which extracts both x and y velocity and determines the speed the object is moving.
Velocity Calc Bundle code: (Click multiple times to select all)
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Welcome to flowlab! Hope this helps 
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Yep, unless you can simulate air resistance in Flowlab, all objects will fall at the same rate of acceleration regardless of mass
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Ooh nice a distance formula with a rate?
Hmmmm dunno about that tbh. Have you tested it?
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No, I’m just assuming that the flowlab physics engine is similar to IRL physics, where if you ignore air resistance everything would have the same force of gravity acting on it (~9.81m/s^2)
You can also give an object artificial gravity by having a constant +Y position on the player so it will always be moving downwards.
So the 9.8 m/s^2 can easily be changed to either a constant, or use an expression/ease to exponentially increase the gravitational force on the player or object.
Considering how small the flowlab play window is, adding a ton of equations and math for such a complex force would be kind of useless since the screen wouldn’t be tall enough (unless it depends on the game you’re making) to even show any change in the objects speed.
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