Cannot programatically set <a-camera> rotation in v0.8.0

Description:

• A-Frame Version: 0.8.0
• Platform / Device: Chrome 65.x, Desktop, Windows 10.
• Reproducible Code Snippet or URL: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/wheat-cord

For some reason, using setAttribute will no longer allow me to programmatically rotate the camera via a component’s init.

Please view the glitch above, view the non-working example, then uncomment the 0.7.1 CDN version to see it work.

I’ve scoured the API, but can’t see any updates to method signatures or the like for this version.

[dsinni]

It is in the docs for master; I guess it just never made its way over to 0.8.*.

https://aframe.io/docs/master/primitives/a-camera.html#manually-positioning-the-camera

[donmccurdy]

You’ll need to use a wrapper entity — the camera entity itself should not be rotated directly. For example:

<a-entity id=“rig”>
  <a-entity camera look-controls position=“0 1.6 0” />
</a-entity>

Some examples with aframe extras:
https://github.com/donmccurdy/aframe-extras/tree/master/src/controls

I thought we’d documented this somewhere, but it’s notably not there on the camera docs so I agree it should be added…