You're reading from Learn Three.js Program 3D animations and visualizations for the web with JavaScript and WebGL

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803233871

Length 554 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Three.js

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Jos Dirksen

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Up and Running

2. Chapter 1: Creating Your First 3D Scene with Three.js FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Basic Components that Make up a Three.js Application

4. Chapter 3: Working with Light Sources in Three.js

5. Part 2: Working with the Three.js Core Components

6. Chapter 4: Working with Three.js Materials

7. Chapter 5: Learning to Work with Geometries

8. Chapter 6: Exploring Advanced Geometries

9. Chapter 7: Points and Sprites

10. Part 3: Particle Clouds, Loading and Animating Models

11. Chapter 8: Creating and Loading Advanced Meshes and Geometries

12. Chapter 9: Animation and Moving the Camera

13. Chapter 10: Loading and Working with Textures

14. Part 4: Post-Processing, Physics, and Sounds

15. Chapter 11: Render Postprocessing

16. Chapter 12: Adding Physics and Sounds to Your Scene

17. Chapter 13: Working with Blender and Three.js

18. Chapter 14: Three.js Together with React, TypeScript, and Web-XR

19. Index

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Working with Three.js Materials

In Chapter 3, Working with Light Sources in Three.js, we talked a bit about materials. You learned that a material, together with a THREE.Geometry instance, forms a THREE.Mesh object. A material is like the skin of an object that defines what the outside of a geometry looks like. For example, a skin defines whether a geometry is metallic-looking, transparent, or shown as a wireframe. The resulting THREE.Mesh object can then be added to the scene to be rendered by Three.js.

So far, we haven’t looked at materials in much detail. In this chapter, we’ll dive into all the materials Three.js has to offer, and you’ll learn how you can use these materials to create good-looking 3D objects. The materials we’ll explore in this chapter are shown in the following list:

MeshBasicMaterial: This is a basic material that you can use to give your geometries a simple color or show the wireframe of your geometries. This material isn...