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Ahruman wrote:

I’m going through Quaternion’s properties to write unit tests, and wondered what the quaternion dot product was actually good for. It turns out that it’s a good measure of difference; similar normalized quaternions have a dot product near 1. For example, oldOrientation.dot(currentOrientation) > 0.999 will detect changes of more than about five degrees around any axis.

I didn't realise we had a dot product for quaternions. I did know it was useful to compare the alignment of two vectors. I just put the code in script and compared the dot product from two similar player orientations. It is either 1.0 or a number with at least the first 6 digits equal 1: The last bit are rounding errors. > 0.999 seems close enough for practical checks. Better than comparing two vectors. Good vision when you added that code