rotate past 180 degrees

[Ian Jones]

When you say "something" what are you referring to? Rotations can sometimes be complex in 3D so we need more information to understand what may be happening.

[ScotchTapeWorm3D]

The simplest thing in the world. I need to rotate an Earth 360 degrees along the y axis.

(If there's a way to tilt the earth and have it rotate on it's own axis that would be even better)

It's just that when I rotate something over 180 degrees, it wants to rotate in the negative direction. Also, when I insert a key frame at zero rotation, then rotate and type in 360 and key frame that, nothing happens. It's like blender wants to take the shortest path to a rotation. I like how with Lightwave you can rotate as much as you want, and it will always work corectly.

[Ian Jones]

You can edit the curve in the IPO window to correct it. As for local axis, I'm not sure... I'm learning Blender, not tried much animation yet.

[hyenaman]

Might be better to only have one axis of rotation on the object and then parent it to another object or null for animating the the tilt.

[kernond]

This tutorial might help:
Animating Perpetual Object Rotations in Blender (http://blendernewbies.blogspot.com/2008/05/animating-perpetual-object-rotations-in.html)

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