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Playing around in excel it seems the problem is with the first number being negative. When I remove the sign I can paste as text and things work. With the minus sign Excel assumes the data is numeric instead of a string (it does this by adding an equals sign as a prefix). The sheet is protected so I cannot format the cell as text.
But obviously your example worked... wonder why mine is different. Guess it is time to find a spreadsheet cracker (again; I cracked this once before and added a page to mimic the gantry function).
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Posted 12 January 2019 - 07:57 PM
The rotation matrix calculated from those quaternions with all negative numbers should be the same as if all of the numbers are positive, see rotation matrix from quaternion. All of the fields in the rotation matrix are based on two quaternion fields, so the sign will cancel. Maybe RE doesn't like all negative values.
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Posted 13 January 2019 - 02:48 AM
Genma Saotome, on 12 January 2019 - 06:49 PM, said:
Playing around in excel it seems the problem is with the first number being negative. When I remove the sign I can paste as text and things work. With the minus sign Excel assumes the data is numeric instead of a string (it does this by adding an equals sign as a prefix). The sheet is protected so I cannot format the cell as text.
But obviously your example worked... wonder why mine is different. Guess it is time to find a spreadsheet cracker (again; I cracked this once before and added a page to mimic the gantry function).
But obviously your example worked... wonder why mine is different. Guess it is time to find a spreadsheet cracker (again; I cracked this once before and added a page to mimic the gantry function).
Ah, I was having a bit of difficulty pasting the numbers in but thought that was just me not being used to the spreadsheet's ways. :)
I got around the problem by typing into the cell: equals, double-quote, paste, double-quote, enter. I.e. ="-0.00047883 -0.969808 -0.00190423 -0.243864"
Still a bit unsure why the MSTS RE wouldn't like it, but maybe Doug's right.
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Posted 13 January 2019 - 10:28 AM
dajones, on 12 January 2019 - 07:57 PM, said:
The rotation matrix calculated from those quaternions with all negative numbers should be the same as if all of the numbers are positive, see rotation matrix from quaternion. All of the fields in the rotation matrix are based on two quaternion fields, so the sign will cancel. Maybe RE doesn't like all negative values.
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I tried that... the results are 180d from expected. But that's easily corrected and so now I know the correct value for the angle -- 29.456d. There are no curves of 0.456d and so what I will to is skew both ends of the curve by 0.022d, a slight bump but surely acceptable.
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