[SOLVED] this.entity.setRotation() isnt working

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Hello, all,
Im tyring to make dials and was doing some preliminary testing and setRotate just didn’t work, my entity just disappeared. I tested just with normal numbers(I was using variables and script attributes before) and setRotation still didn’t work.

Thanks for any help!

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Oh yeah for some reason setting rotation is really weird, I think you need to give it 4 values instead of 3, or something like that.

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Oh wait I just remembered you need to use this.entity.setLocalEulerAngles(0, 0, 0);

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@ALUCARD thx a lot! Let me try that and get back to you!

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Thanks a lot! That works! Do you happen to know why setRotation doesn’t work?

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Not Alucard, but setRotation doesn’t work because it expects a quaternion instead of a vec3. Quaternions are another way to implement rotation that works better with animating things but they are stupidly complex.

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Thanks @lifeofpain

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Your welcome.

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I still refuse to believe that “quaternions” actually exist

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If you want, you can read. Im not reading this. https://www.3dgep.com/understanding-quaternions/

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Im telling you its a conspiracy by big math to prevent us from using the far simpler and far more useful 3 dimensional rotations

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“In this article I will attempt to explain the concept of Quaternions in an easy to understand way”

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Well, I guess Imma read it today and make a post on it so people can understand it.

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quaternions are a lie made up by big math but they allow any possible rotation compared to euler angles which cannot get specific rotations

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Honestly I am probably a part of big math, my work causes me to create equations that look like (ARCSIN(1/((√13)/2))). That isnt a joke, I actually needed to create that formula myself just to properly derive an angle of around 33.690067526 degrees.

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my condolences

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And by “work”, I mean doing what I want to on my free time.