How to move the camera in the direction the camera is facing?

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I have a playground saved here:
Moving the Camera | Babylon.js Playground (babylonjs.com)

I’m using a gamePad Camera and a render loop in the example and moving the camera along the z axis at the speed of the camera. How can I apply a constant force to propel the camera to move in the direction the camera is facing?

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Hi AjaxGodfather (little, big, or clean variety of Ajax? :smiley: ),

You can essentially combine your calculation and translation steps by using camera.getFrontPosition(distance). Pass in the distance in front of the camera that you’d like to move (e.g., the speed in a render loop) and it will return a Vector3 with the position that would represent. You can just set the camera’s position directly from there if you want.

HTH

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