Hello everybody,

I need to rotate an object first around it's Y-axis and then around the X-axis.

To my understanding, rotating around Y-axis corresponds to "twist" and rotating around X-axis corresponds to "bend".

I do rotations in the objects local coordinates and NOT in world coordinates.

My problem is that if I first "twist" then I need to rotate around the NEW rotated relative X-axis and NOT around the initial X-axis.

Hope my question is clear!

Thank you in advance,

Paul

Yep.  Clear enough.  You've encountered Gimbal Lock, where one axis occupies the same space as another.  You can use the Direct Manipulation Tool to counteract this, or parent your object to a Primitive and rotate that.

Thanks for the tip.

I also thought of another way by using the Joint Editor and rotate the local object coordinates. Now I need to figure out how to do this in poser.

Thank you,

Paul

This is one thing that Vue does much nicer -- you can specify that your rotations are relative to the global coordinate system.

Quote - This is one thing that Vue does much nicer -- you can specify that your rotations are relative to the global coordinate system.

Same with C4d. Do we know if Poser8 has such a functionallity or not?

Maybe it's there but I haven't figured out how to use it.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Paul