How would I make it so when i rotate this wedge, it is on a specific world axis?

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#1

I’m trying to make this wedge rotate/change orientation specific to world axis, so when I do rotateY it will rotate the orientation on the y axis, but for some reason my script is rotating it super weirdly so if i rotate with RotateX, when I rotate with Y and Z it will change a different orientation axis than Y and Z(I don’t want this to happen)

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you can see that after I do rotate X, when i do RotateY again it changes a completely different orientation value than the Y one.

this is the code segment that moves and rotates the object to follow the mouse



local cframe = CFrame.New
local angles = CFrame.fromEulerAnglesFromXYZ
object:PivotTo(object.CFrame:Lerp(cframe(posX, posY, posZ)*angles(math.rad(rotationX), math.rad(rotationY), math.rad(rotationZ)), speed))

this is the code that changes the rotation when you press your rotate key

local rotationStep = 90
local rotationY = 0 --pressing r
local rotationZ = 0 --pressing t
local rotationX = 0 --pressing y

local function rotate(actionName, inputState, inputObj)
	if inputState ~= Enum.UserInputState.Begin then return end
	print(actionName)
	if actionName == "RotateY" then
		rotationY += rotationStep
	elseif actionName == "RotateZ" then
		rotationZ += rotationStep
	elseif actionName == "RotateX" then
		rotationX += rotationStep
	end
end

theres a ton more in the actual script i didnt put, and i merged in a few parts that arent in that part of the script simply for convenience, if you dont think i gave enough information feel free to ask.

#2

I believe this is because orientation, the property your are looking it, rotates in Y X Z and not X Y Z
This is why when you rotate on the x, orientation shows the middle number as the number you rotated.

#3

I don’t think so. Before rotating on X, Rotating on Y and Z works just fine and it rotates Y Z on the part. The order i put my variables in while defining them and the order inside the rotate function doesnt affect the actual rotation either.

#4

You would have to change the pivot point of your wedge, I don’t know if there are APIs or not.