Hi guys

I've been spending an embarrassing amount of time on a fairly simple problem. In my 2D world each entity has an orientation (theta) which represents the direction it is facing.

Given its current orientation and a target orientation, I want to find out:

The change in theta required to achieve the target orientation, rotating clockwise.
The change in theta required to acheive the target orientation, rotating counter clockwise.

the closest I got was abs(current - target) for clockwise rotations, and -abs(current - target), for counter clockwise rotations. But that falls apart when you go past 0.

This should be simple, but i can't seem to work it out.


Please help

If I understand your question, start with delta = target - current. If you want a clockwise rotation, and delta is negative add 360 degrees to delta. If you want a counterclockwise rotation and delta is positive subtract 360 degrees.

If I understand your question, start with delta = target - current. If you want a clockwise rotation, and delta is negative add 360 degrees to delta. If you want a counterclockwise rotation and delta is positive subtract 360 degrees.

It works XD,

Thanks for your help.