[Closed] newbie rotation woes

Ok I’m writing a script (v7) to assemble a playground from a set of component files. These components have one or multiple objects in them in varying materials, and each object has its pivot point located at the origin. The script reads in a comma-delimited txt that lists a block name, x,y,z insertion coordinates, and a rotation value. It then cycles through, inserting a component, relocating it, and rotating it to proper orientation.

What happens is that the components are merged and relocated correctly, but rotations for grouped objects are not set correctly. Is this a limitation of the approach i’m using here?:

rotComponent = eulerangles 0 0 (rotationArray[b] as float)
rotate s rotComponent

Like I said, it works fine for single objects, and grouped objects do rotate, just not correctly. tia for any info. Here’s the full script for reference:

blockArray = #()
xValArray = #()
yValArray = #()
zValArray = #()
rotationArray = #()

in_name = (“C:\TEMP\PS5-19109.TXT”)
in_file = openFile in_name
if in_file != undefined then
(
a = 1
while not eof in_file do
(
blockArray[a] = readDelimitedString in_file “,”
xValArray[a] = readDelimitedString in_file “,”
yValArray[a] = readDelimitedString in_file “,”
zValArray[a] = readDelimitedString in_file “,”
rotationArray[a] = readDelimitedString in_file “,”
a += 1
)
)

b = 1
nativeSourcePath = “C:\[NEW MAPS]\[NATIVE COMPONENTS]\[NATIVE BLOCK SOURCE]”

while b <= blockArray.count do
(
mergeMAXFile (nativeSourcePath + “/” + blockArray[b] + “.max”) #mergeDups #select
s = getCurrentSelection()
setCoordCenter #local
s.pos = [(xValArray[b] as float),(yValArray[b] as float),(zValArray[b] as float)]
rotComponent = eulerangles 0 0 (rotationArray[b] as float)
rotate s rotComponent
b += 1
)