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Pointer lock provides input methods based on the movement of the mouse over time, not just the absolute position of the mouse cursor.

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How to do hit detection of mouse in Three.js using PointerLockControls?

I made an open source project. It is a data visualizer for your books in 3D using Three.js. (https://github.com/AlinCiocan/BooksIn3D). And now I want to do detect if a user is in front of a book if pressed a key. Something like this: For example,…
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Locking the pointer to elements in a vscode extension webview panel throws an error

I am building a vscode extension that creates a webview panel. This panel uses threejs to render a 3d scene - this happens successfully. Unfortunately, no matter what I try, I cannot get the pointer to lock to the canvas with the scene and in the…
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Is there a way to implement pointerlock in a scene exported from blender?

On ThreeJS website, in the example misc_controls_pointerlock, the scene is built with geometries written directly in the code. Is there a good way to implement this pointerlock in a model of a room that I would have conceived in Blender, for exemple…
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Center pointerlockcontrols on the mouse curosr

The problem As the cursor locks, the cursor is set to the position of the screen where i clicked. But i would like to have my cursor centered to the screen. As that is not possible for security reasons, the only available option is to move the…
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Disabling mouse acceleration not supported in Chrome v88

So we use the requestPointerLock() function to lock the mouse pointer of users while gaming on our website. Following the web.dev disable-mouse-acceleration article, I tested their pointer lock API sample and discovered that requesting pointer lock…
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Firefox: allow pointer lock from any context

I need to lock the pointer but when I requestPointerLock it's telling me Request for pointer lock was denied because Element.requestPointerLock() was not called from inside a short running user-generated event handler, and the document is not in…
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mousemove doesn't fire if pointer lock is on

I'm observing strange behaviour when attempting to add a mousemove listener to document after requesting a pointer lock. I've implemented the following, mostly based on documentation from MDN: var onLockChange = () => { …
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Preventing Mouse Wheel Event during Pointer Lock in Chrome

I want to prevent the mouse wheel from actually scrolling the document if the pointer is locked to a certain element. Here is a minimal example: