R3F & Rapier third person controller and follow camera

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Hello,

I just wanted to ask if anyone has created a third person controller and follow camera using @react-three/fiber & @react-three/rapier similar to this example → CodeSandbox - CodeSandbox

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the one in your link looks good, why not using it?

otherwise there’s a primitive keyboardcontrols in drei GitHub - pmndrs/drei: 🥉 useful helpers for react-three-fiber this is also being used in bruno simons last chapter where you make a physics game with a controller. Three.js Journey — Create a game with R3F

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The version in the link i posted doesnt use @react-three/rapier or any other physics library

ideally id like to have the character wrapped with a so it can interact with other objects in the space

also, im not great at maths, but from what i can understand the movement/force applied is needs to differ from the above example

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here’s an example with a first person controller using rapier

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Thanks, I’ve seen this example, but it doesn’t quite match the ‘3rd person’ example im looking for

Main differences are the camera location and rotation behind the player model

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I am looking exactly for the same as you @kdigidydawg , by any chance did you find a solution?
I found a few (where the camera will also rotate according to keystroke / direction user is going, with a subtle lerp and delay) but they are all in vanilla three js and i’m struggling to port it to r3f / drei.

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you can check this article it’s about third person control
https://medium.com/@m.mhde96/react-three-fiber-third-person-control-a0476c189dd1

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Here is a 3rd person controller demo. Sorry, it doesn’t use rapier. It uses useCannon
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Third Person Controller Demo: Obstacle Course - React Three Fiber Tutorials

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Hopefully my project helps :grin:: ecctrl (with animations) - CodeSandbox
You can also find it in pmndrs/ecctrl: GitHub - pmndrs/ecctrl: 🕹️ A floating rigibody character controller