# How can i make my camera to have Z up, X pointing towards me and Y to the left

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** animation, materials, geometry\
**Created:** [August 19, 2024, 7:04am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/how-can-i-make-my-camera-to-have-z-up-x-pointing-towards-me-and-y-to-the-left/69455 "2024-08-19T07:04:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![siamak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@siamak](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/siamak)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 7:04am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/how-can-i-make-my-camera-to-have-z-up-x-pointing-towards-me-and-y-to-the-left/69455/1 "2024-08-19T07:04:44Z")

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Hi Team,  
I want to set my camera to accomplish the following axis:

 ![Screenshot 2024-08-18 235652](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/threejs/original/3X/8/8/88ffa4cfbed425df96667e2673c38a12fc63f741.png)

As you can see in this desktop open Gl app the Y is to the left in the arrow pointers on the bottom left, Z is up, and X is pointing towards the user or I should say X is facing the user looking like a small red dot. other orientations easily by setting the camera position, but not this one.  
Any suggestions here as to how best i can achieve this?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![mjurczyk](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.threejs.org/mjurczyk/32/10995_2.png) [@mjurczyk](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/mjurczyk)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 8:12am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/how-can-i-make-my-camera-to-have-z-up-x-pointing-towards-me-and-y-to-the-left/69455/2 "2024-08-19T08:12:11Z")

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> [@siamak](#):
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> Any suggestions here as to how best i can achieve this?

Any reason to not just rotate model after loading it?

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**Author:** ![siamak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@siamak](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/siamak)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/how-can-i-make-my-camera-to-have-z-up-x-pointing-towards-me-and-y-to-the-left/69455/3 "2024-08-19T15:13:51Z")

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Thanks @mjurczyk for the reply. I am not sure how to rotate it to achieve that exact orientation using the .rotate method of the group. Also when i try to rotate it by mouse to that orientation using orbitcontrol, it does not rotate that way. As if there are some limitations for rotating to that orientation. That is why I posted this for more insights.