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2. Don, I don’t want that. I initially made it like that but I prefer to give the cube the feel of a vehicle control, better say an anti-airctaft cannon. About the internals of the macro, I want to keep it very simple and do the rest in the worksheet. Don’t forget, this is an beginner tutorial.
   Thanks for the input, good stuff! I never used matrices in VBA. Readers might be quite interested in your version. George

3. Oh, I also forgot to mention that you have to convert the “azimuth” and “altitude” rotation matrices to values as well, so start with unit matrix values {{1,0,0},{0,1,0},{0,0,1}} in both.
   Cheers,
   Don

4. Hi George,
   I tried a modification to your spreadsheet by converting the “azimuth*altitude*roll” range I7:K9 to values and adding a reset button at well that runs the code:

   Private Sub resetButton_Click()
   [I7] = 1
   [J8] = 1
   [K9] = 1
   [I8:I9] = 0
   [J7] = 0
   [J9] = 0
   [K7:K8] = 0
   End Sub

   and changing your code for the Joystick to input increments to the rotation angles relative to the screen. That way the joystick will behave like you’re manipulating the cube in your hands rather than like you’re flying thecube and viewing it from a 3rd person perspective. Both styles of rotation are valid and it depends on your purposes as to which is the most appropriate to use.

   Note that this implementation also drops the “roll” rotation input altogether.

   The modified joystick code is:

   Dim Pt0 As POINTAPI
   Dim Pt1 As POINTAPI

   RunPause = Not RunPause
   GetCursorPos Pt0
   Do While RunPause = True
   DoEvents
   GetCursorPos Pt1
   [B50] = Pt1.X – Pt0.X
   DoEvents
   [C50] = -Pt1.Y + Pt0.Y
   DoEvents
   [B1] = [B52] / 1500
   [I7:K9] = WorksheetFunction.MMult([E2:G4], [I7:K9])
   DoEvents
   [B3] = [C52] / 1500
   [I7:K9] = WorksheetFunction.MMult([I2:K4], [I7:K9])
   Loop