animation rotates around the wrong axis

[brittle berry]

I'm trying to rotate it around the x-axis but it rotates around the z-axis, even though I wrote ".rx" and not ".rz".
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, please help me.

[lethal musk]

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[calm berry]

can you show a full screen screenshot

[brittle berry]

Ok wait a second

[calm berry]

you can see the X axis from the red arrow in this screenshot

it is rotating around its x axis

[brittle berry]

Changed it to .rz

Still the same

[calm berry]

gtg

send the model and i can look later

[brittle berry]

Ok ty

[deep oracle]

sounds like gimbal lock

[brittle berry]

What does that mean?

[deep oracle]

basically if you rotate something 90 on one axis, it can happen (depending on the axis) that you make the other 2 axes overlap (due to how rotation works in 3D space)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock
for a more detailed explanation (and some images)

[brittle berry]

Is there a way to fix this?

[deep oracle]

don't rotate stuff 90 degrees on the y axis

or make another bone in that rotated bone that isn't rotated (and animated that new bone)

[brittle berry]

Okay thank you

!close