Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Learn how to build a dynamic minimap that follows your character using Three.js and React Three Fiber (R3F) with the Drei View component! 🗺️

In this tutorial, we’ll cover setting up a minimap in your 3D scene, integrating it with React Three Fiber, and using Drei’s View component. We'll implement it on the final project of the 3rd person controller tutorial (youtu.be/yjpGVIe_Gy8)


🚀 Learn React Three Fiber with the Ultimate Guide to 3D Web Development ✨
https://wawasensei.dev/courses/react-three-fiber/

Demo 🔗
https://minimap.wawasensei.dev/

Final code 🔗
github.com/wass08/r3f-3rd-person-controller-minimap

Starter code 🔗
github.com/wass08/r3f-3rd-person-controller-final

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▬▬▬▬▬▬ Useful L I N K S 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬

View Component from Drei library
https://drei.docs.pmnd.rs/portals/view

React Three Fiber
https://r3f.docs.pmnd.rs/getting-started/introduction

Threejs
threejs.org


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▬▬▬▬▬▬ T I M E S T A M P S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬

00:00 Intro
00:47 Third Person Controller
01:27 View Component
06:37 Valtio Proxy State
11:28 Minimap Camera Logic
14:44 Autorotate
16:33 Visual indicators
18:28 Final result
19:44 Conclusion

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