I’m relatively new to Unreal and Blueprints in general. I’m making a simple space fighter flight sim game, and I’ve currently discovered what Gimbal Lock is. There are a few resources around, but many of them aren’t quite designed with my method of movement in mind as far as I can tell. I wanted to…

Gimbal Lock is not a math problem, it’s a wrong-framing-of-the-problem problem. In space, there is no global “up,” and thus, you should not use representations that believe that that’s the case. Thus, you should only ever rotate things based on local coordinates. E g, given the local orientation, r…

Work in c++ with a proper movement model… otherwise its an engine limietation due to blueprint. That said, if you convert or use degrees you can always Mod 360 to go back to 0. Which essentially should prevent the lock.

[image] jwatte: In space, there is no global “up,” and thus, you should not use representations that believe that that’s the case. Thus, you should only ever rotate things based on local coordinates. E g, given the local orientation, rotate clockwise around the local forward vector, or whatever. …

Thank you. 2 days I was searching for a solution and you delivered !! Here´s a beautiful view from outta space. Have a nice day u all :smiley: [HighresScreenshot00067]

Make sure that doesnt fail - the creation of the rotator outputs what exaxtly when your rotation float reaches some 10b in value from doing death loops? Matter of fact, who cares what it puts out. Make it manually reset to 0 after 360 by using proper angular math on that float, and then it just won…

Solving Gimbal Lock for a space flightsim in UE5

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SquireGrooktook (SquireGrooktook) March 3, 2023, 2:13am 4

Thank you! This actually worked: I replaced the “Set World Rotation” with “Add Local Rotation” and removed the Get World Rotation. Now it works perfectly!