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Yeah, this is exactly what I have been doing since my first version, and works perfectly. The issues have mainly been about frames of reference.

For this translation-rotation-translation, I have...

I found a useful thread on the topic

"Quaternions and skeletal animation"

http://www.groupsrv.com/computers/about22217.html

looks like at least the origin/binding portion I had right. Seems...

Haha - yeah - but why?

Aren't quaternions supposed to help me get rid of Gimbal lock? I am using a 4D matrix and quaternion representation.

Do I just need to keep the object coordinate system...

Thanks guys - would not have thought of using the inverse.

Btw, I'm actually using Actionscript 3, not C, but the core code is basically the same for these items, just that I had to write all of...

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had a good strategy for rotating child objects in 3D independently of a parent object.

For example, a car with wheels that can turn on their own axis, at the same...