[Nicholas Weber]

Dan,

Thank you for the quick reply. Unfortunately I’m not only animating the X axis. This is a small part of a larger project I’m creating, and I was trying to figure out why I was getting inconsistent numbers. The expression you gave me works, but only to a degree and I’m not talented enough to try and figure out how to make it work for my larger project.

For those trying to figure out another work around, this might work for you. It’s not as involved, but might fix your issue. It works only to a degree. Instead of trying to figure out the rotation of a layer auto oriented towards a camera, link your camera to a null that is placed at the anchor point for the layer. Then animate the null’s rotation to move the camera around, and you will know what the layers orientation is when pointing at the camera based on the null’s rotation. There are obvious draw backs to this solution, including limited camera animation, and only being able to find the orientation of one object in the scene. This was something that I tried, and had limited success with, and again, won’t help with the larger animation..;

[Nicholas Weber]

Hello Dan,
First I’d like to start off by thanking you for all the help that you’ve given people both directly and indirectly.

So here is my basic issue.

I have this code attached to a second layer and I am rotating the camera around my main layer only on the x axis (the horizontal axis, left right). When that value reaches 90 degrees, the other two values (Y and Z) return values of 180 degrees and the X value reverses it direction. So basically the camera should be returning a constant x value, increasing from 0 to whatever, but when it hits 90 it starts decreasing, then goes from 0 to 360 (which is ok) but continues to decrease until it reaches 270, then the Y and Z values jump to 0, and the X value begins counting up again, past 360 to 0, then up to 90, where it switches directions again. I have this code as part of a larger project and need to be able to return the full range of numbers so I can drive my animation. Any help on how to do this would be greatly appreciated!