Where can I call camera.setTransform()?

I have set $firstPerson to false, and I want to adjust the camera placement so it's above and farther back looking down on my player.

I started with the starter.fps. Like starter.fps, I called camera.setTransform() in GameConnection::createPlayer(). That had no effect. So I launched the original starter.fps and commented out this line:

%this.camera.setTransform(%player.getEyeTransform());

still there is no difference in the placement of the camera. It's as if the engine is overriding the camera transformation and ignoring the setTransformCall()?

Here is what I'm trying to do:

%xfrm = %player.getEyeTransform();
%lx = getWord(%xfrm, 0);
%ly = getWord(%xfrm, 1);
%lz = getWord(%xfrm, 2);
%rx = getWord(%xfrm, 3);
%ry = getWord(%xfrm, 4);
%rz = getWord(%xfrm, 5);
%ra = getWord(%xfrm, 6);
 // do transform
%lz += 10; // or something
 %this.camera.setTransform(%lx SPC %ly SPC %lz SPC %rx SPC %ry SPC %rz SPC %ra);