In contrast to Babylon.js, Babylon Lite’s camera up vector appears to be hard-coded to world +Y. I need to look in the Y direction, so I need to provide an up vector orthogonal to that direction (for example +Z). With a fixed +Y up vector, the look direction and up vector are parallel and the camer…

This is all the philosophy of Lite :slight_smile: in a nutshell we do not expose an API if the user can do it easily. For a Z-up camera, you can parent the camera to a rotated TransformNode . Camera transforms and controls operate in the parent’s local frame, so the camera can remain in its regul…

[Lite] Configurable camera up vector

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axeljaeger August 24, 2026, 6:26pm 3

Thank you. I continued my journey with your fix, unfortunately I just ran into the next one: [Lite] Screenshot / Grab framebuffer

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[Lite] Configurable camera up vector

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