How to Get and set rotation question

Hello Everyone!

I have a question regarding rotation. I have an object parented to another object. Upon a trigger, I want it to rotate on the 'y' axis until the y axis = 90. When the trigger is no longer active. I want it to rotate back on the y axis until y axis = 0. But I want it to do that without changing the 'x' or 'z' axis that it should be following based on the parent.

transform.rotate seems to always make the object rotate by a certain amount, not to a specific limit. I've been stumped by this for a while. Thank you very much for your time!

 

I'm assuming you are using eulerAngles for the rotation, and in this case, what you can do is something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(transform.eulerAngles.x, desiredYAngle, transform.eulerAngles.z);

Might be a bit boring to write, but that should let you set the angle to whatever you want it to be, in any direction.

Also, the object is the child of another object and you wanna change the local rotation, use localEulerAngles

 

Thank you very much!