Can i use orbit control for 3rd person view camera?

Questions
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Im planning to use OrbitControl to do a simple 3rd person camera view, but i have a couple of questions.

  1. when i rotate the camera around an object, and press say “W” key to move forward, i want the object “look” or direction to gradualy rotate and move to the new direction the camera is facing.
    How can i do that in threejs using OrbitControl?

  2. how do I follow the character as it moves, do I just need to update the orbit control target everytime the object it suppose to follow moves and update the camera position based from an ideal offset?

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  1. You can do that using gsap and the coordinates from where the person is facing. When W is pressed you gsap to the desired coordinates. If mouse is used for camera you disable the gsap from W key.

2.Third-Person Camera
https://codepen.io/Fyrestar/pen/WNwMWZV?editors=0010