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Game Development with Three.js

You're reading from   Game Development with Three.js With Three.js you can create sophisticated 3D games that run in the web browser. This book is aimed at both the professional game designer and the enthusiast with a step by step approach including lots of tips and examples.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168539
Length 118 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Isaac Sukin Isaac Sukin
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Geometries


Geometries are instances of THREE.Geometry that define the shape of an object in a scene. They are made up of vertices and faces (which are themselves objects and are accessible through the vertices and faces array properties). Vertices are the THREE.Vector3 objects representing points in three-dimensional space, while faces are the THREE.Face3 objects representing triangular surfaces. (All more complex shapes are subdivided into triangular faces for rendering purposes.)

Luckily, dealing with vertices and faces directly is usually unnecessary because THREE.Geometry has many subclasses that help create commonly used shapes.

3D primitives

Three.js provides a number of classes that generate common shapes. The official documentation for each type is available at http://threejs.org/docs/, but a summary of common types is shown in the following table (some obscure, optional constructor parameters were omitted):

Type

Constructor

Description

Cube

THREE.CubeGeometry(width, height, depth...
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