Any plans to update the engine so that pan/tilt/roll is actually implemented? Performing the standard rotations Roll-Yaw-Pitch (or R-P-Y depending on which way you like) should rotate the relative axis. As it is now, no such rotation takes place.

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what are you talking about? you can rotate you object along all 3 axis's what problem are you having?

Yeah i dont follow either..

Maybe he means rotating on more axes than just 3? Couldn't follow him either, and the idea of more than 3 axes is weird except when you are building some sort of robot arm simulation in space

Well it's already possible to rotate around an arbitrary axis with the engine functions.

EDIT: just to clarify: if you want to rotate about an entities' local axes, use ang_add/ang_rotate

ah, well that rules out my suggestion of what he wants

I'm not sure, but I think he wants the tilt/roll to work relative to the existing pan. Either that or that they all work independantly of each other, like they're based on some fourth dimensional axis that never moves. I'm not sure how it works right now, I will have to go home and run some tests, if I feel like it's important at that time....

But this way is working too by use_axisr mode in C_rotate function

I was talking about local axis rotation. As it is now, the pan/tilt/roll operate on the world axis. If you apply a roll then pan, the objects rotates around the world Z-axis, NOT the rotated local axis.

I've looked around in here and have seen some mention of using ang_rotate, but that's a deprecated function. If you have some quick code that handles it using the ang_add() I'd appreciate it.

Nevermind, I found it, took some digging in these forums. I did note a strange stuttering effect when using the ang_add() function. It's odd, because I wrote a far more complex rotation system using quaternions that doesn't cause any stuttering at all. However, the stuttering seems to smooth out when I hit F11 and bring up the developer info text (the FPS/MEM/NET stuff). When I turn off the F11 info, after a while, the stuttering returns. This is very peculiar behavior.

Any thoughts?