Camera Direction

Treat the camera as an authored visual system, not a passive viewport. Compose the subject, establish scale, choose a stable up frame, and make every mode handoff explicit.

Build order

1. Define the design frame: subject size, screen occupancy, lens, near/far, motion, and horizon/up convention.
2. Build camera targets in semantic frames: ship, body surface, docking axis, or scene-authored shot.
3. Derive position and orientation independently, then combine them once.
4. Add input orbit/look only inside declared yaw/pitch and spatial constraints.
5. Add frame-rate-independent follow or a bounded spring where the reference uses inertia.
6. Snapshot and restore camera projection/state when a scene owns it.
7. Test mode transitions, cuts, pointer-lock reacquisition, resize, and large coordinates.