Setting rotation with radians

[Kingdom of Fish]

Hi, I was wondering if you are planning to add functionality to set the rotation of a sprite using radians instead of degrees?

[Laurent]

Hum, no. This should be enough if you need it :

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inline float RadToDeg(float Rad)
{
    return Deg / M_PI * 180.f;
}

sprite.SetRotation(RadToDeg(1.158f));

[Kingdom of Fish]

My original thought was that most libraries uses radians for rotation and that opengl did so too, which would mean you already did the conversion once... but looking at the code i noticed i was wrong.

[Laurent]

Well, I don't think it makes much difference, as one can easily write and use DegToRad and RadToDeg functions.

I just wanted to use something "human-friendly" by default, so that you can write Sprite.Rotate(90) instead of Sprite.Rotate(M_PI / 2.f).

[Kingdom of Fish]

Well thats a good enough reason, I'm just in favor of options... more so then necessary probably.

[zarka]

Well, I don't think it makes much difference, as one can easily write and use DegToRad and RadToDeg functions.

I just wanted to use something "human-friendly" by default, so that you can write Sprite.Rotate(90) instead of Sprite.Rotate(M_PI / 2.f).

but radians are more programmer friendly!

[Laurent]

I guess everyone has its own preference

[LanceJZ]

Well, I don't think it makes much difference, as one can easily write and use DegToRad and RadToDeg functions.

I just wanted to use something "human-friendly" by default, so that you can write Sprite.Rotate(90) instead of Sprite.Rotate(M_PI / 2.f).

Funny you should say that, as I find radian way more human friendly than degrees. I hate having to figure out degrees to radians and back. I love Pi, why the hate on pi? I'm actually annoyed that degrees is what sprite uses for rotation.
Just my thoughts on the matter.

[Laurent]

Thanks for reviving a 6 year-old thread just to complain about something that will never change anyway.

[Deathbeam]

Thanks for reviving a 6 year-old thread just to complain about something that will never change anyway.

(y) Degrees 4ever

[Cleroth]

The degrees are most likely converted to radians internally at some point anyway, hence why using radians could be benificial (but unlikely).

[Hiura]

The degrees are most likely converted to radians internally at some point anyway, hence why using radians could be benificial (but unlikely).

beneficial? -> look up «premature optimization».

[Nexus]

This 6-year old thread has already been necromanced, there's no need to artificially keep it alive. I think it should be closed, no new arguments have been brought anyway.