Having trouble getting the current angles of the entity.

Text(10, 15, 1, GetEntityAngleY ( e ) ) -- returns '270'
Text(10, 20,1, GetObjectAngleY (obj) ) -- returns '0'

**Does NOT show any change**,
even though the entity is rotating clockwise continuously, one complete rotation
approx every 5 seconds...?

Text(10, 25,1, "current angle; "..g_Entity[e]['angley'] )
returns a value in the range of 20 and -20 ?!
even though the entity is rotating clockwise continuously, one complete rotation
approx every 5 seconds...?

These are weird anomalies. Can I find the 0-360 degree value and work with it?

Changed GetObjectAngleY (obj) )

with GetObjectAngleY (g_Entity[e]['obj']) )

just shows the same entity match of 20 to (-20) any suggestions?

Probably because the object is not rotating around the world Y axis, is it tilted?

Using PushObject to rotate...

Now to find angles, trying to use;
uprx[e], upry[e], uprz[e] = UpdateEntityRT(e,,,,,,rx,ry,rz,,,,,,,,,,,,,)

with error ... 'Unexpected symbol near ,'

for sure the (e part is necessary, so how would you go about bypassing the 'e'?)

UpdateEntityRT?

Wth is that?

Btw there is a function in physlib called getRealWorldYangle which you can copy to turn Euler angles into world Y angle.

function UpdateEntityRT(e,object,x,y,z,rx,ry,rz,ave,act,col,key,zon,ezon,plrvis,hea,frm,pdst,avd,lmb,lmi)
g_Entity[e]['x'] = x;
g_Entity[e]['y'] = y;
g_Entity[e]['z'] = z;
g_Entity[e]['anglex'] = rx;
g_Entity[e]['angley'] = ry;
g_Entity[e]['anglez'] = rz;
g_Entity[e]['obj'] = object;
g_Entity[e]['active'] = ave;
g_Entity[e]['activated'] = act;
g_Entity[e]['collected'] = col;
g_Entity[e]['haskey'] = key;
g_Entity[e]['plrinzone'] = zon;
g_Entity[e]['entityinzone'] = ezon;
g_Entity[e]['plrvisible'] = plrvis;
g_Entity[e]['health'] = hea;
g_Entity[e]['frame'] = frm;
g_Entity[e]['plrdist'] = pdst;
g_Entity[e]['avoid'] = avd;
g_Entity[e]['limbhit'] = lmb;
g_Entity[e]['limbhitindex'] = lmi;
end

Does GetObjectAngleY (g_Entity[e]['obj']) )
use euler angles?

UpdateEntityRT is not for the user, it is called by the engine to update the global variables!

All angles are world Euler angles.

What you need are entity relative angles which you cannot get from the engine, you need to use a bit of math to work them out.

Hence the function I mentioned above.

Here is a version you can drop into your own script.

Thanks. That works, but only if I manually rotate the entity via SetRotation commands.
But that resets all live parameters. The goal is to use PushObject
I need angle updates real time as the object moves about objects and terrain, etc.
How can I get this information? Doesn't bullet engine feed this to GG engine?

Yes, use GetObjectPosAng or GetEntityPosAng to get the position and angles directly.

i.e.:
local x, y, z, xa, ya, za = GetEntityPosAng( e )

Then get the 'real world' Y angle with:

rwy = GetRealWorldYangle( xa, ya, za )

Okay, thanks. I should have gave that one a try.