'is there a way to rotate an actor's pitch past 90 degrees in unreal engine 4

I a working on a game and for some reason I can't get my component to rotate past 90 degrees pitch. I've distilled it down to EventTick->AddRelativeRotation(0, 5, 0) but when it hits the 90 degrees pitch mark it simply jitters back and fourth. I've read many pages on this topic and I simply cannot find an answer. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.

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Solution 1:[1]

This is known bug since 2014 but is not fixed yet. One way to get around this is make a rotator before then assign this rotator to target object.

  1. Break old rotation into 3 float values
  2. Make a new rotator adding the offset value from the old rotation (y=5 in your case)
  3. Assign rotation to desired object

Solution 2:[2]

Rotations using only three axes can be problematic. Rotations are more stable and reliable when using quaternions. The jittering you mention sounds a lot like something that would be fixed by using quaternion rotation instead.

It can be a bit confusing but there's plenty of documentation about this on the internet now that you have a term to search for.

Then, have a look at this UE forum post: Rotate a mesh around its center using quaternion It contains a link to a video showing how to do rotations using quaternions in UE, and some Blueprint that might help as well.

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