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I have an object that needs to be rotated in one axis but keeping the original rotation in the others.

Here is the code I wrote for doing that:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class rotation : MonoBehaviour {

    // Elements
    Transform elevator;

    // Min/Max angles
    public float elevatorAngle;

    // Use this for initialization
	void Start () 
    {        
        elevator = GameObject.Find("C_elevator").transform;             
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () 
    {
        float vert = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
		
        elevator.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(elevator.localRotation.eulerAngles.x - (elevatorAngle * vert), elevator.localRotation.eulerAngles.y, elevator.localRotation.eulerAngles.z);
    }
}

The problem is that it’s not working properly. Please take a look this video to see the problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewKVm95o364

2

Euler angles can change representation on you. For example put this in a script:

transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(180,0,0);
Debug.Log(transform.eulerAngles);

This will output (0,180,180), which is the same physical rotation, but a different Euler angle representation.

A way to fix this problem is to maintain your own rotation and assign it. You never read transform.eulerAngles or transform.localEulerAngles. Consider them write-only. So you create a variable called elevatorXRotation. You could do:

elevatorXRotation -= (elevatorAngle * vert);
elevator.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(elevatorXRotation, 0.0f, 0.0f);
3

I’ve fixed it :slight_smile:
At the end has been really simple I just have to save the initial rotation of the object in a Vector 3 and then apply the rotations keeping the initial rotations in the other axis:

//Initial rotaion
Vector3 alieronLRotation;

alieronL.localEulerAngles = new Vector3((alieronAngle * hori + alieronLRotation.x), alieronLRotation.y, alieronLRotation.z);