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Can anyone advise as to how I wrap an object into an angle of 0 to 360 in its xy and z axes?

I have a 3d spaceship with a cube behind and above it, my camera seeks to the cubes position but I am having difficulty making my camera roll to the same plane so as to see the ship the correct way up.

it is the rota# value here:-

setcameralookat(1,getobjectx(1),getobjecty(1),getobjectz(1),rota#)

I find it complex because of the angles that an object reports behave oddly once you have rotated the object beyond 90 in its x axis in that y and z flip to 180 and that is just simply rotating the x alone.

Is it that I have to define my objects rotation between 0 to 360 somehow with quaterions so it is easier to ascertain how much rota# needs to be whichever direction the ship points in 3d space?

Rotation advice needed Thx

You can set the position of the camera and its rotation to the same as the object (ship) then move the camera using local movement rather than global.

1-position and rotate camera to same as object
2-move camera local z and local y

I can look up some code if you have trouble but that's how I've done it in AppGameKit 3D.

Thx baxslash, yes that`s how I position the cube that my camera is seeking the position of, but it will lead to a rigid camera I was hoping to have a slow integer follow in increments to the current rotation so as to allow for smoother viewing...but I am using the setcameratolookat command which generally rotates it and then I was trying to roll it to the x component of the ship.

Thinking about it, I notice that the cube doesn`t correctly rotate to the same orientation as the ship when I roll the x of the ship in(object 4 is my follower cube, 1 is the ship)

setobjectrotation(4,getobjectanglex(1),getobjectangley(1),(getobjectanglez(1)))
SetObjectPosition(4,getobjectx(1),getobjecty(1),getobjectz(1))
MoveObjectLocalX( 4, -20 )
MoveObjectLocaly( 4, 15 )

Should this be a `plus` 20 in the localX and I then need to re-export my ship drawn facing the other direction? ie down the x axis=forwards

From what you are saying I place my camera where my cube is and it will be ok as long as my cube has been moved in the correct direction, thx I`ll try it.

But all I need to do is be able to equate an actual 0 to 360 of my ship in its x axis relative to the screen orientation from its quats.
Is this not something like a sum of the quats.

1080*(quatx+quaty+quatz)/3 (`im guessing here)

Does anyone know how to return a 0-360 of an objects x rotation from its quaterions?

Actually..thx baxslash I realised my ship had to move along the z axis to match the coordintes of the camera, and I have managed to make a steady working camera that at least is on `elastic` when accelerating now, progress