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Re: Child-Parent linking - how to avoid inheriting rotation?
by Dan Ebberts on Oct 28, 2009 at 9:18:58 pm

It sounds like you need a counter-rotation expression for the child, like this:

value - parent.transform.rotation

The child's world postion will still be affected by the parent's rotation, but it will retain it's world orientation.

Dan

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Child-Parent linking - how to avoid inheriting rotation? by Michael Cosner on Oct 28, 2009 at 8:55:33 pm
- Re: Child-Parent linking - how to avoid inheriting rotation? by Dan Ebberts on Oct 28, 2009 at 9:18:58 pm
  - Re: Child-Parent linking - how to avoid inheriting rotation? by Michael Cosner on Oct 28, 2009 at 10:30:18 pm

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