Attached Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock

Are you talking about the Gimbal Lock? If you rotate the object on one or two axes, you will get strange results on the third axis. Parent your object to another one and do all the rotations on xRotate and zRotate there. Use yRotate of the object.

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