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This PR addresses the highly requested features from Issue #116 (Camera that follows the object) and Issue #205.
While MeshCat supports Trackball controls to look at an object, there hasn't been a built-in Julia-side way to physically lock the camera's position to a moving target (like a 3rd-person chase camera for drones or robotic end-effectors).
This PR introduces
set_chase_camera!, a lightweight helper function that composes a target's transformation matrix with a user-defined camera offset, and applies it directly to thevis["/Cameras/default"]path.Example Usage inside a simulation loop: