If you have the two points, you can compute the vector direction by subtracting one from the other. Here’s a function you can use to get a rotation matrix from the origin and the vector. Lastly, you can use Quaternion.fromRotationMatrix to get a quaternion, and HeadingPitchRoll.fromQuaternion to …

How to get heading, pitch and roll from the two points

Ulrich_Lehner September 6, 2020, 6:30am 7

here‘s the code (for some reason the original link doesn’t work anymore):

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