Radians or Degrees?¶
This topic has been discussed to death quite frankly during the development of the game. The general consensus is that we should use both, but define a clear line between two of them. Here is the rules we decided and why we made the decision:
If you are unfamiliar with Radians, please read this wikipedia article.
- In-code, use Radians
- This is because all the matrix methods, sin/cos, internal math operations/etc are all based on Radians. This makes the most sense to store all internal values as Radians.
- In-configuration with external files, use Degrees
- Degrees, quite simply, are easier to read and more intuitive into what they represent. Things like the [[Model XML]] format and other configurations will store values in Degrees.