Monorepo for Aesthetic.Computer
aesthetic.computer
arena: decouple player rotation from camera rotation
Introduce playerFacing as independent state. During normal camera look-around,
playerFacing tracks cam.rotY. During right-click orbit, playerFacing stays
frozen so the player body doesn't spin.
This allows the camera to swivel freely around a stationary player during
orbit, enabling true freelook without player model rotation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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system/public/aesthetic.computer/disks/arena.mjs
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system/public/aesthetic.computer/disks/arena.mjs
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const ZOOM_DISTANCES = [0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4.5, 6, 9, 12, 16, 24, 32];
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let zoomLevel = 2; // Start at 1 unit back (shoulder camera)
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// 🎥 Player facing direction (decoupled from camera rotation)
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let playerFacing = 0; // Player body Y rotation (degrees), independent from camera
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// 🎥 Right-click camera orbit (3P mode only): rotate camera around player
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// without changing player body rotation. Orbits by modifying XZ offset.
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let orbitAngle = 0; // extra Y rotation for camera only (degrees)
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plumbLine.scale[1] = Math.max(0, playerWorldY - GROUND_Y - 0.02);
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}
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// Update player facing direction (camera rotY when not orbiting)
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if (!orbiting) {
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playerFacing = cam.rotY;
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}
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if (bodyFeet) {
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const footBaseY = playerAlive
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? GROUND_Y
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bodyFeet.position[0] = playerCamX;
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bodyFeet.position[1] = footBaseY;
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bodyFeet.position[2] = playerCamZ;
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bodyFeet.rotation[1] = cam.rotY;
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bodyFeet.rotation[1] = playerFacing;
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}
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if (bodyArms) {
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const crouchDrop = (phys?.crouch ?? 0) * 0.2;
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bodyArms.position[0] = playerCamX;
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bodyArms.position[1] = playerWorldY - crouchDrop + bob;
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bodyArms.position[2] = playerCamZ;
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bodyArms.rotation[1] = cam.rotY;
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bodyArms.rotation[1] = playerFacing;
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}
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