What's Roblox's orientation formula?

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So we all know what’s orientation, but there’s something that I need to know.

When you try to set/change a part’s orientation if the given value (Doesn’t matter on which axis) is bigger than 180, the studio will automatically convert that value to a number between -180 and 180.

for example:
let’s say that I want to change a part’s orientation and if I try to set an axis’s value to 7000 the studio will convert that to 160 like this:

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my question is what’s that formula? how we can calculate this?

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You can easily do this my getting the modulus of the inputted number like this:

print(7000%360) --You can change 7000 with any number you like.
--Output
->160
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Thank you so much, I’ve been struggling with this for hours :sweat_smile:
just one more question, what does % mean in Lua in here?

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You can check out all the math operators in Lua, including %, here: Operators | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

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It means the modulus operator.

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