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How can I rotate a dsc nebula mesh a "normal" 90 degrees?

This data -> Axis [-0.679381 0.221716 -0.699488] Angle 196.475 is perpendicular.

Could you give some more details? In what direction do you want to rotate your model 90 degrees?

This data (Axis [-0.679381 0.221716 -0.699488] Angle 196.475) places the mesh in the target galaxy (Milky Way), but the mesh has a wrong orientation. So the end result is perpendicular to the Milky Way plane.

I want to rotate the mesh 90 degrees to be on the plane of the Milky Way.

This is the mesh now:

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_______ (Milky Way)

My target state:

_______ ________

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I cannot rotate the 3ds mesh in Anim8tor or Blender, so I have to use the same cmod mesh.

see the Grant Hutchinson' tool : excel.zip (23KB, updated 16sep04)
https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/hutchison/spreadsheets.html

the other tools on this page may also be useful to you (note the archive names are similar)

gironde wrote:see the Grant Hutchinson' tool

I cannot use the tool, because I don't understand the math. Someone should explain it with this data set and with this problem...

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I know this is the problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis%E2%80%93angle_representation