Rotation issue from Unreal to PlayCanvas

[Albertos]

Hi @rehman97!

Maybe the topics below are related and can help you.

Editor Bug: Rotating an entity can sometimes flip it

Hey, I’m having a weird issue when rotating entities inside the editor, that sometimes rotating past a certain point, the X and the Z axes flip from 0 to -180, despite me only rotating on the Y axis. Video: Sample project: https://playcanvas.com/project/634129/overview/rotation-bug

Get clean EulerAngles

Hello, I have a small issue with the eulerAngles, that I cannot figure out how to solve without rewriting existing code. I have a script, which requires some rotational values between 0 – 360 and I thought I can simply feed it with the output from the getEulerAngles() function and clamp it to stay between 0/360 instead of -360/360. But then I run into the issue, that the output of the eulerAngle function does some weird voodoo of swapping the rotational values around. Like discussed here: …

Useful pc.Quat functions

I’ve been using a couple of functions that I find particularly handy. Often in my code I need to get just the element of rotation around the Y axis between two things, so I can adjust it. You can’t do this with .getEulerAngles().y because that will suddenly flip based on the rotation (the x, z elements would also flip). What you need is a stable twist around an axis that won’t suffer these effects - enter this.entity.getRotation().twist(pc.Vec3.UP) which returns the +/- angle around that axis…