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Question by N1warhead · May 01, 2016 at 05:03 AM · transformrotatetransform.rotationquaternionsrotations

4 rotations WTF

Okay, I'm trying to figure out why my rotation of my object in script has 4 rotations!

X,Y,Z and something else. XYZ = 0, the something else is 0.7f;

So if I do Debug.Log(transform.rotation.ToString()); I get 0,0,0,0.7f.

is this something new I never heard of? Because I can't for some reason get a.transform.rotation = b.transform.rotation; to work at all. (I've used that way for awhile now).

I'm on 5.3.4

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avatar image Quertie · May 01, 2016 at 04:23 PM 0
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Well, I don't know why

a.transform.rotation = b.transform.rotation
doesn't work. The documentation says that transform.rotation is a public variable, but doesn't explicitly say you can't assign a value to it. However, the 4 rotations actually define a Quaternion, which is the mathematical way to describe 3-dimensional rotations (it turns out you cannot define a 3D rotation with only 3 numbers) - and the way unity stores them.

Anyway, if you want to be able to use three rotations, I suggest you try using Transform.eulerAngles

Hope this helps!

avatar image N1warhead · May 02, 2016 at 06:55 AM 0
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Hey I eventually got it, I can't even explain why it wasn't working honestly. But I just started my entire script over and it worked that time. So needless to say, I can't even say what I did to fix it lol.

But I appreciate your comment buddy,

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Answer by Outliver · May 02, 2016 at 02:09 PM

Rotation is represented in quaternions. As the term "quaternion" already suggests, these are four dimensional numbers. Read the wikipedia article if you wanna dig into the math. If you don't, just remember to never assign values directly to transform.rotation (except the case in which you would want to copy the value from another transform.rotation). Use methods like Rotate() or RotateAround() instead.

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