Gimbal transformation orientation - what is that ?

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does anybody figured out what Gimbal transformation orientation actually is/do ?
i don’t seem to find any good explanation for that…

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It’s a visualization of your rotation away from the origin. It’s there to help you avoid Gimbal lock.

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could you please give some more details ? :slight_smile:

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What kind of details do you need? Perhaps an explanation of what Gimbal Lock is?

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thanks Fweeb, for some reason google didn’t want to see that page first time i typed that in the search bar.
now i get what that is :slight_smile:

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still don’t get how this gimbal mode is usefull to blender :smiley: hope anyone found out :slight_smile:

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Infomation about rotations. Read from page 7 http://issuu.com/blenderart_magazine/docs/blenderart_mag-31_eng

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apparently is useful in animating stuff
found this:

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this is good info, but i hoped for fewer words :smiley:

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the best explanation so far in video