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Setting rotation axis order to emulate a tripod

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Setting rotation axis order to emulate a tripod

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- In the previous movie, we saw the importance of using Gimbal Coordinate System when rotating a free camera. Now let's go a little bit deeper and talk about rotation access order. That will help us to emulate the mechanics of a real world tripod. Gimbal mode accurately represents the complex interaction of rotational axis. These are what's known as Euler angle rotations named after the mathematician who developed this math in the first place. The three rotation values are calculated sequentially in a particular order. That results in a kind of inheritance in which the orientation of the rotational axes depend on one another. So to illustrate in gimbal mode, if we rotate around a particular axis, the other axis may or may not inherit that rotation depending upon the rotation priority. So for example, if I rotate around the Y axis in gimbal mode, the X axis follows, but the Z axis does not. And that's because of…

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