A better way than this to constrain angles?

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1

Hey guys, I have made this script for my game. Basically it stops the bone from rotating too high and too low. It works which is a start but when I hit the angle specified, it jitters going back and forward. I know why it does this because I am saying if it is higher than this value, snap to that value. I am just wondering what I could do in order to make it stop when it hits the angle specified and not jitter, but when I want to move down, the bone moves again. Here is what I have so far:

var spine : Transform;
var rotateSpeed : int = 18;

function Update()
{

	if (gunAiming.aimMode == 1 || gunAiming.aimMode == 0)
	{
		spine.transform.Rotate(Vector3(0, 0, Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y")) * Time.deltaTime * rotateSpeed);
	}
	if (spine.transform.rotation.eulerAngles.z > 294)
	{
		Debug.Log("294");
		spine.transform.rotation.eulerAngles.z = 294;
	}
	
	if (spine.transform.rotation.eulerAngles.z < 244)
	{
		Debug.Log("244");
		spine.transform.rotation.eulerAngles.z = 244;
	}

}
2

Keep a running variable of the current rotation.
Add to the variable instead of rotating transform
Clamp the variable between your limits
Apply the variable to your transform like so:

transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler( curRot )

Also, don’t use Magic Numbers inside your code. Instead make vars at the top as constants in all caps. Mucho betterer.