Euler angle issue at 90° about x

When rotating an entity about the y or z axis by setting the Euler angle, the rotation is continuous and smooth.

When rotating an entity about the x axis by setting the Euler angle, at 90° rotation stops, bounces between two values and/or reverses.

Is this a bug?

TIA

Hi.

What’s your Entity?

I was using a plain entity as an pivot point.

The issue seems to be applying successive rotations. Investigation shows Euler angles are reinterpreted as rotations about different axes (e.g. setLocalEulerAngles(0, -92, 0) becomes (180, -88, 180).

I’ve worked around the problem by keeping track of the angles locally then applying that value rather than trying to increment the existing Euler angles.

This was from a suggestion by yaustar’s from this thread (Understanding Euler rotation).