Third Person Follow Camera

[randykeller11]

I'm working on an open world 3d game and can't find any starter code for the necessary camera controls. I've been able to hack the OrbitControls to create a first person camera experience but want a third person camera that is synced to the player controls WASD. The idea is whenever a player turns their avatar, the camera should rotate so the W key always sends you away from the camera and the S key always sends you towards the camera. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

[leone6]

i might be wrong here, but could it be easier to leave the camera and avatar completely still, and then rotate/move the world around them to simulate player movement?

[drcmda]

https://github.com/pmndrs/racing-game ? maybe it helps looking into that projects camera code.

[Dhruvisgoat]

yeah @leone6 u are right that probably makes sense.

[diebraga]

Any updates guys a simple example in how to it would be amazing!

[jamesryan-dev]

+1 for this - there's an official driving game by the team that built react-three-fibre but upon inspecitng the code I couldn't work out how they did it

[willmadd]

Just wanted to share a code sandbox I've created for third person camera that follows the target. It has the trolley effect too, so that camera follows the path of the object, while also still pointing at the object in question,
https://codesandbox.io/s/recursing-morning-jqerty