Rotating an 3D object based on previous rotations, similar to the editor's rotation widget

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Godot Version

4.5

Question

I am trying to make a simple 3D model editor, but I am running into a problem with rotation. when I rotate an object 90 degrees in the x axis, 90 in the y axis then -90 in the x again it doesn’t rotate as I want it to. I want it to rotate how it does in the editor:
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but instead when I move it the second time in the x axis the object just goes back to being vertical. I have tried a couple different ways to fix this, mainly quaternions (which I don’t really understand), but I couldn’t get anything to work. What is the best way to solve this?

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Don’t use euler rotation angles. Work directly with the basis. If you want to rotate the object around its current axes you can use Node3D::rotate(axis, angle) and specify one of its global basis vectors as the axis.