I’m looking to set locations of objects relative to their own referencing frame, i.e. moving it along its local axes as opposed to global axes.
specifically I’m looking to move a camera along its local Z axis, so as to zoom in and out, but a general example would help just the same.
thanks for the help!
i think you need sin, co-sin, something like this:
a = math.radians(ob.rotation_euler.x)
x = math.sin( a )
y = math.cos( a )
m = 0.1 # change this to move more or less along the local axis
ob.location.x = x * m
ob.location.y = y * m
I understand that it may take trigonometry to translate from absolute to relative coordinates, but your example isn’t quite right.
You’re not accounting for relative axis positions if you’re only using 2 variables, that only allows for relative axes that are restricted to a specific plane.