Third-person camera support? about noa HOT 3 CLOSED

Hey, thanks for looking at the library!

Third person camera can mean a couple of things, but did you see noa.rendering.zoomDistance? In all my demos scrolling the mousewheel zooms the camera back by changing that property.

The way it currently works is, there's an empty mesh called noa.rendering._cameraHolder that stays pinned to the player's view location and rotates as the player moves their view. Then the actual camera is a child of that mesh, and when you change the zoomDistance the camera moves back and forth in the camera holder mesh's local coordinates, so in world coords it winds up projected to a point behind the player.

But it's meant to be an optional default implementation - a game with particular needs can in principle make a new camera and have it move however, and tell Babylon to render with that one instead of the default one. I haven't done this personally, so there might be wrinkles though.

Let me know if that's what you're looking for..

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Oh my goodness, I can't believe I didn't figure this out. Yes, this is exactly what I was wanting! Thank you so much! ❤️

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Ah good... the property could probably be better named. BTW there's also a camera zoom speed property, for how fast the camera tweens to the desired zoom level. But the default behavior is that the library also raycasts backwards from the player's head each frame looking for obstructions, and limits the zoom level if it encounters solid voxels.

Hope that helps, thanks for trying things out!

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