Is it feasible to directly enter a screen coordinate and pan the camera controller directly, which is consistent with the result of dragging the mouse to pan the camera controller? Has anyone done it?

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Click on the screen coordinates to pan the camera controller

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It can be done by raycaster to get the coordinate where your mouse has clicked, then copy the raycaster object point to the camera target, add lerp so it pans smoothly.

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Screen coordinates are inherently 2D, while a controller’s target is 3D. So there are an infinite number of 3D coordinates (along a cast ray) which would yield the same screen coordinate.

While a raycaster returns the 3D coordinates of the first (closest) surface of a three,js geometry (while there is one), I expect the result of clicking an empty spot on the screen to be void / null or undefined.

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