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Quaternion.ToAngleAxis

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public function ToAngleAxis(out angle: float, out axis: Vector3): void;
public void ToAngleAxis(out float angle, out Vector3 axis);

Description

Converts a rotation to angle-axis representation (angles in degrees).

    // Extracts the angle - axis rotation from the transform rotation

    var angle = 0.0;
    var axis = Vector3.zero;
    transform.rotation.ToAngleAxis(angle, axis);

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour {
    public float angle = 0.0F;
    public Vector3 axis = Vector3.zero;
    void Example() {
        transform.rotation.ToAngleAxis(out angle, out axis);
    }
}

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