Converting 3D polar coordinates to cartesian coordinates

Your formula is correct for all angles. But the names that you’ve given the angles are probably not quite right. What you’ve called “horizontal angle” is the inclination angle – the angle between the vector and the z-axis. So if “horizontal angle” is 0, then the point lies on the z-axis, which means that it is correct for x and y to both be 0. What you’ve called “vertical angle” is actually the angle in the x-y plane. If it is 0, then the point lies in the x-z plane, so y is correctly set to 0.

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