Store Rotation values of a Child in a Vector3 or Quaternion ?

Questions & Answers
1

I know this sounds ridiculously easy but I’m struggling from quite some time and can’t find anything on the internet right now. I want to store the rotation values of a child gameobject in a variable.

2

if you are just trying to store transform.rotation then use Quaternion. Vector3 is if you are converting a Quaternion to Euler angles (euler angles are x,y,z and a Quaternion is x,y,z,w)

3

Hi @Vunpac, let me ask you a question!

I created two sliders, one for tilt (Z) and yaw (Y), Both works great on their own, my problem is when I try to use them together. If I move the Yaw half way and then I move the Tilt, the object returns to its original position instead of storing the current position and adjusting from then on. Hope this makes sense… I was trying to use your script to store the current angle and I know my main problem is that I have no clue how to use the stored angle and use the sliders to add on top of that.

Here is what I have so far:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class ObjectControl : MonoBehaviour {

	public GameObject objectToRotate;
	public Slider rotateSlider;
    public Slider tiltSlider;
	public Slider scaleSlider;
    public Quaternion InitialRot;

    void Start()
    {
        InitialRot = Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(this.transform.localRotation.x, this.transform.localRotation.y, this.transform.localRotation.z));
    }


	public void RotateMyObject(float sliderValueR)
	{
		sliderValueR = rotateSlider.value;
        objectToRotate.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, InitialRot + sliderValueR * 360, 0);
	}


    public void TiltMyObject(float sliderValueT)
    {
        sliderValueT = tiltSlider.value;
        objectToRotate.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, sliderValueT * 360);
    }

	public void ScaleMyObject(float sliderValueS)
	{
		Vector3 scale = objectToRotate.transform.localScale;
		sliderValueS = scaleSlider.value;


		objectToRotate.transform.localScale = new Vector3(sliderValueS, sliderValueS, sliderValueS);

	}

}