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Mihai Pop
Mihai Pop

Reputation: 13

C# - Clamping an angle vs using modulo

What is the difference between clamping an angle like in the following code

do
 {
   if(angle < -360)
   {
     angle += 360;
   }
   if(angle > 360)
   {
     angle -= 360;
   }
 }while(angle < -360 || angle > 360);

... and using the modulo arithmetics;

angle = angle % 360;

... and if this is relevant for the Unity game engine.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1160

Answers (1)

user743382
user743382

Reputation:

Assuming angle is an integer, the difference is that your clamp code allows angles of exactly -360 or +360 degrees. Modulo would reduce that to zero.

The comments speak of a difference in handling negative values. Those comments are wrong. Both approaches would leave -10 as -10.

If angle isn't an integer type though, if it's double for instance, the % operator may give different results than repeated addition or subtraction, due to repeated addition or subtraction introducing rounding problems. In that case, the % operator would be a better match. You'd need excessively large angles for this to become a problem though, and with those excessively large angles, you don't have enough precision to represent angles accurately anyway.

Upvotes: 2

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