Orbit+perspective Camera (start at a default zoom with ability to zoom in and out with limits)

Questions
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I’m trying to make my 3d model start at example 200 in terms of zoom and can zoom in to maximum 100 and zoom out to max 300

camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(25, 3/2,0.1, 1000);
controls = new THREE.OrbitControls(camera, renderer.domElement);
controls.minDistance = 120;
controls.maxDistance = 200;

camera.zoom isn’t doing anything and the weird thing is at fov 40 everything was alright when I changed as we want it that way it loads at 120 always and it’s too zoomed as initial

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  1. OrbitControls does not use camera.zoom - it does the distance calculations internally.
  2. While there’s no defaultDistance property, you can just replace it with a single controls.update call:
const controls = new THREE.OrbitControls(camera, renderer.domElement);
controls.minDistance = controls.maxDistance = 200.0;
controls.update(); // NOTE This will place the camera at the default distance

controls.minDistance = 100.0;
controls.maxDistance = 300.0;