How do i find how many degrees a part is rotated from a CFrame, but i want it to only return 1 axis so basically it should return a number. Does anyone know which function does this
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local cf = part.CFrame -- Replace with your CFrame
local _, yRotation, _ = cf:ToEulerAnglesYXZ() -- Extract the Y-axis rotation
local degrees = math.deg(yRotation) -- Convert radians to degrees```
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what are euler angles? i cant understand the defination online
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EulerAnglesYXZ just gives the rotations like the Orientation property does, except in “radians”, which need to be converted to degrees with math.deg.
local myCFrame = CFrame.Angles(0, math.rad(90), 0)
local _, yRadians, _ = myCFrame:ToEulerAnglesYXZ()
-- prints "90 degrees"
print(math.deg(yRadians), "degrees")
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ohhh ok ok. thank you for the explaination
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Rotations can be described in different manners. Roblox uses CFrames internally, which are matrices (from linear algebra) that have a position component (Position’s X, Y and Z coordinates) and a rotation component, consisting out of 9 numbers.
Euler angles on the other hand may be easier to work with. They’re simply the 3 orientation numbers mentioned in the reply above. Euler angles describe how you would move from ‘no rotation’ to the given rotation by spinning an object along its X, Y or Z axis, comparable to how an airplane’s rotation is described by yaw, pitch and roll.
The downside of Euler angles is that the order in which you rotate along the X, Y and Z axis ends up giving different results. That’s why for example both a CFrame:FromEulerAnglesXYZ() method and CFrame:FromEulerAnglesYXZ() method exist. They return how much you would need to rotate from a default rotation to end up at the CFrame’s rotation if you apply the rotation in that specific order along the axes.
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