Gimbal lock in Y-axis Bones?

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On 24/08/2004 at 10:57, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Cinema 4D Version:   8.503 
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Seems that when a bone is pointing in the +/-Y axis direction, the Bank and Heading become the same rotation axis. This may illuminate some of the difficulties my plugin is having in rotating bones after setting their initial orientation and fixing them.

How can I avoid this and do MatrixRotN() suffer from the same fate?

Thanks,
Robert

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On 25/08/2004 at 13:21, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I was testing this in the GUI and it appears to differ from the MatrixRotN() methods. Yay! :)

Robert

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On 28/08/2004 at 00:20, xxxxxxxx wrote:

The difference is probably caused by using HPB in only one of the places. Make sure that HPB rotation is activated in the preferences if you want to experience Gimbal lock in both places... ;-)
The only way to avoid Gimbal lock is unfortunately not to use Euler angles for rotation at all. It's a fundamental mathematical limitation.

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On 28/08/2004 at 11:39, xxxxxxxx wrote:

;)

Thanks, Mikael.

And, of course, I know about the Euler angle limitations. Hopefully, I can put that Quaternion class to use soon. Only question about it is why does it use LReal, etc., which makes for some fun using with standard Matrices.

Robert