Add the ability to hold children

[Michael Dobekidis]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'm trying to attach children to the CameraControls in order for them to be "pinned" to the camera

Describe the solution you'd like

Being able to add children to the camera controls, like OrbitControls can

Describe alternatives you've considered

Alligning the camera position on every frame, but it feels like too much work for a simple task

Additional context

No response

[Akihiro Oyamada]

How did you do that in OrbitControls?
Also, this might work for you, since Camera classes inherit Object3D.

const pinnedMesh = new THREE.Mesh(
	new THREE.BoxGeometry( 1, 1, 1 ),
	new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { color: 0xff00ff } )
);

scene.add( camera );
camera.add( pinnedMesh );
pinnedMesh.position.z = - 5;

[Michael Dobekidis]

In r3f we just included the Object as a child of the camera like

<PerspectiveCamera>
  <mesh></mesh>
 </PerspectiveCamera

then I guess I can just add that camera ref as the camera in CameraControls?

[Akihiro Oyamada]

Actually, I'm not sure because I don't really use R3F...
One thing I can say is that PerspectiveCamera must be a child of the rendering Scene.

[Tim]

Just attach them to cameraControls.camera, which is just a ref to the actual camera in the scene.