Hello,
I’m doing ongoing research on this, however, I hope someone can clarify an easy way to make sure that when a component/actor is being rotated by the RINTERP node, it takes the closest route.
For example, if the YAW of the actor is -116, and it needs to be rotated to +167, the node is going from -116 → 0 → +167 (a difference of 283 degrees!), instead of -116 → -180/+180 → +167 (Only 77 degrees).
This makes my character in certain places look great, and others, swivel maddeningly.
Just checking, are you splitting the pins open to change the yaw? That will do it…
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I usually do that, actually, but because the character’s rotation is handled on a 180/-180 scale, I figured it wouldn’t work/matter.
Am I wrong?
If the origin float is -116 and the target float is +167, wouldn’t it still take the -116 → 0 → +167 path?
If the rotation were handled on a 360 degree scale, I think it would work. But again, maybe I’m not thinking of it correctly.
That’s the problem. It all has to be done with rotation nodes, you can’t split them open.
The lerp ( and rinterp etc ) nodes use quaternions to do the calculations, but by splitting and altering Z, you sidestepping that fix.
If you can show the code, I can recommend a way to go 
It’s usually pretty straightforward, just a couple of rules to follow.
Put a cube in the level, and set x or y to 90. Then try moving z. You’ll the x and y doing crazy things. They are all interdependent, you can’t alter one axis in isolation ( if you want to use a full circle ).
My blueprint is ridiculously large, so I’m not putting you through the whole thing:
However, I did check all of the RINTERPS and I never broke them, HOWEVER, I did use COMBINE_ROTATORS. Would that screw up the orientations?
I kid you not, the MAIN SELECT screen of my project has a cube doing just that!!!
Ok, nightmare 
If you can make it happen in a few nodes, I’ll take a look.
As long as you stick to rotator nodes ( rlerp, rinterp etc ) and only use ‘combine rotators’ to change values ( it does matter which way round you put the pins ), it should be alright.
You ain’t kidding.
Okay, I’ll experiment and take some more time to diagnose it.
I appreciate the insight.
Definitely using this knowledge moving forward.
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