Hey, Ok so I’m starting to feel pretty silly. I’m stuck on this for a few hours, and it feels so easy, but I just can’t find the answer. Eg. Tracking a cubes rotation. I want to continuously track how far the cube has rotated since starting the rotation. The problem is using get world rotation or…

I don’t mean to Necro, But I wanted to resolve this post so it’s tidy. But if anyone comes past this in the future, the issue was a classic problem in 3D space. Gimbal lock and blueprints are a bit of a nightmare. This is the link to the YouTube video that solved it. It’s been posted in a good few…

What’s Event Tick doing there :thinking: Anyways, I see you’re controlling the rotation with player input. That wasn’t what I meant by smoothly rotating it, this would actually be categorized better with the snappy usage. Now, you didn’t clarify your objective in your last post but considering the…

[image] Skyboy: And Im trying to calculate total degrees rotated as it smoothly spins. This could be both forwards and backwards. Have a variable track it and set component rotation to that value: [image] In your very case: instead of +1 as above, add what the input node axis spit out. …

I feel I should rephrase everything as I feel Im being confusing. I have a mouse input that rotates a cube, you can flick the mouse and watch the cube to spin. I initially used simulate physics for this, which worked well. But When you release the mouse(and 0 was no longer the angular velocity), i…

[image] Skyboy: Or if anyone knows how to stop simulated physics throwing itself off axis as well lol? constrain it ensure the centre is centred in the modelling mode for complex meshes, with many convex shapes you may need to disable colliders’ mass contribution

[image] Skyboy: how to stop simulated physics throwing itself off axis I didn’t quite get what you meant by that but since you confirmed that your objective was what I was guessing, this should do the job: [image] Vis Agilis: you can just get the actor’s rotation as normal, but use a Bra…

[image] Vis Agilis: sounds interesting Or even simpler: [image]

xD As I feared, I do not understand any of this, lol. I found the name, someone might have mentioned it already. “Eular angles”. After looking into it, I ended up I think somewhere close to what was being discussed here. Although it kinda works. It hits about 70 degrees and bounces back again inst…

[image] Skyboy: I think its just the order of the nodes need mixing up. Let’s start from the scratch :sweat_smile: It’s just this: If the float value (pitch, in your case) is less than 0, add 360 onto it. To do that, you can get an addition (+) node, plug the pitch value into one of it’s p…

I burst out laughing, xD I think I’m actually going slowly insane. This? [Unreal] It feels closer xD. It goes between 282 up to 360 which flips then flips to 0 and goes to 82. And then inverts and goes back down to 0 before flipping and going back to 282. Basically bouncing between 282 and 82.

[image] Skyboy: It goes between 282 up to 360 While doing what? Rotating about 90 degrees and getting the world / relative rotation? That would be expected. Because the initial rotation of the cube matters in this case. If you want to get the difference in rotation, you’d wanna subtract the i…