Hello, i’d like to store the rotation from the vector (1,0,0) to (x,0,z)
what is the best way to get the quaternion that describes this rotation?
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Can you tell us why you want to do this? It seems like a strange requirement on its own as there are other ways to do the half a dozen things I guessed you might be doing.
lets say I have two translations vectors :
(0,0,0) -> (10,0,0)
(10,0,0) -> (10,0,10)
i would like to rotate those translations to have for X axis my new x axis (x,0,z)
it’d like to rotate all the vectors so that their xAxis becomes my new vector (x,0,z)
in order to do that I guess i’d have to get the angle between the xAxis and the new vectror (x,0,z) then appkly a rotation to all the translation vectors around the origin (Y axis)
To answer original question (not looking at alternatives):
To get the quaternion between 2 vectors, you would cross product the vectors, which would give you the axis to rotate around. Then use vector1.angleBetween (vector2); to give you the angle (make sure you pass in normalized vectors to this).
And to generate the quaternion, use: new Quaternion ().fromAngleAxis (angle, crossProdVec);
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Ok, and why do you want to do that?
More specifically, can you describe what you are actually trying to do at a higher level? I know you have painted your floor in a particular order and are standing in a corner now wondering how to get out… but maybe there was a different way to paint the floor in the first place. 
oh ok guys here is what I am doing :
I am making a skill generator,
where a skill is described by a list of animations to apply to parts of an object.
what I call an animation, is a list of transformations
and transformations can be combined.
For the moment I am working on translation transformation, a translation is described by two points, a start and an end.
and an animation just a list of those transformations.
example:
you guys any idea to rotate all the translations accordingly?
here is what ive done :
angle = Cursor.sub(spatialVec).normalize().anglebetween(Vector3f.UNIT_Y)
Quternion q = new Quaternion()
q.fromAngleAxis(angle , Vector3f.UNIT_Y)
then i’d just q.mult(translation vectors)
Why not just place the animated objects inside a node and rotate/etc the node.
You can then do all your work with the much simpler non-rotated vectors and everything is magically taken care of for you.
yes, that’s what I am doing, sorry, I did a mistake, I meant i’d rotate the parent node.
this works but I’m facing a little problem, only the angles under 180 work well, the others are reverted 
anglebetween seems to only return positive values ?
oww i get it, thanks wezrule,
i had to get the axis of rotation by making the cross product, it’d give me the axis of rotation (positive or negative :))