Setting Position and Rotation of camera (can't find any of my objects)

[leo-petrucci]

I wanted to use react-three-gui to move my camera around and have more control over where I'm viewing my scene from, however as soon as I set position or rotation I lose any trace of my meshes.

What are the default values for camera position and rotation? Why does everything disappear when I set it to [0,0,0]?

I created a sandbox here https://codesandbox.io/s/r3f-basic-demo-forked-jbm2t?file=/src/index.js

This also happens when trying to set my camera as orthographic, I just end up loosing all my meshes.

[drcmda]

thats not how it works, these are just the initial values that the renderer and the cameras get. think of everything on the canvas element as a construction type of argument, the objects are literally constructed from it.

you can get to the camera in useframe or usethree https://codesandbox.io/s/r3f-particles-i-q4d2v careful with ortho cams, they behave differently, changing the z vector has no effect because there's no perspective. they have a "zoom" property instead.

[leo-petrucci]

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clearing that up! Tried adding a zoom value and I was actually able to see my meshes.

One last thing, I tried adding the suggested ortographic settings I found here, however I get the error cam.lookAt is not a function.

Not a big deal as I don't need it but just wondering if that's intended.

[drcmda]

that is badly documented. lookat is not a property, it calls (once) defaultCam.lookAt(0,0,0) on startup, that's what it tries to communicate there but i can see how that's confusing.