I am unable to pass scenekw arguments through a Makie recipe such that the LScene is constructed correctly. Regardless of what I try, the result is always a perspective view with axes. My understanding is that Makie recipes should handle this use case without requiring an LScene to be constructed …

It seems a similar issue was raised here with no solution. [image] Accessing LScene and Figure attributes from Makie Recipes Visualization Is it possible to access figure level or LScene level attributes from a Makie recipe? For example, in the MWE below, myp…

Unfortunately I think that this needed use case pattern is not supported. There not so many recipe examples for this use case, however. But if the plot recipe is to create an LScene, it seems that we should be able to control how it is created, no?

I tried to solve this by creating a Theme which set Figure and Scene properties, but it fails as well: chart_theme = Theme( Figure(figure_padding=0,), Scene = (camera=campixel!, show_axis=false,) ) Just using the Figure as an example results in the errror: chart_theme = Theme…

A simple workaround is to skip recipes entirely and instead write a function that explicitly constructs the plot the way you want. If this lives in a Makie extension, you retain essentially the same benefits. Most importantly, your package does not need to depend on Makie directly. For example, in …

Issue: Passing `scenekw` Arguments in Makie Recipes

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prittjam August 29, 2025, 5:28pm 2

It seems a similar issue was raised here with no solution.

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Issue: Passing `scenekw` Arguments in Makie Recipes

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