Axis of Rotation in Rotate 3D

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Permalink Reply by Ching on March 27, 2012 at 6:08pm

It's not "X-Axis of Rotation", it's simply a vector input to indentify the axis of rotation you want to use. You can input X vector (1,0,0) or Y vector (0,1,0) or Z vector (0,0,1) or any vector to indicate the axis you want it to rotate around.

For example if you input a Z vector (which is the default) it rotates like a playing vinyl disc. If you input an X vector it does backflips. If you input a Y vector it will do barrel rolls.

Also note that the angle is in radians.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on March 27, 2012 at 6:37pm

plane xz or plane yz.

Permalink Reply by Eli Meltzer on March 27, 2012 at 6:44pm

It sounds like you probably want the normal vector to your surface, which you can get from the N output of the evalSurf component

Permalink Reply by Ankur Verma on March 27, 2012 at 9:03pm

thanks a lot guys. Guess it was a pretty simple way out. 

Works perfect!

Permalink Reply by Bora Doker on February 8, 2015 at 7:30am

So how can we manage to change a rotation axis in Rotate Axis Component to do a building that have floors are rotated on its own axis-z with as less operations as we can. 

Because in the default value of x, the floors are rotated in the x-axis not in z-axis. I just want to find a simple way to do that without drawing a line on the xz plane and define the default axis line.