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Learn Three.js

You're reading from   Learn Three.js Programming 3D animations and visualizations for the web with HTML5 and WebGL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833288
Length 528 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Jos Dirksen Jos Dirksen
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Your First 3D Scene with Three.js 2. The Basic Components that Make Up a Three.js Application FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Light Sources in Three.js 4. Working with Three.js Materials 5. Learning to Work with Geometries 6. Advanced Geometries and Binary Operations 7. Points and Sprites 8. Creating and Loading Advanced Meshes and Geometries 9. Animations and Moving the Camera 10. Loading and Working with Textures 11. Render Postprocessing 12. Adding Physics and Sounds to Your Scene 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

Using models from external sources isn't that hard to do in Three.js. Especially for simple models, you only have to take a few simple steps. When working with external models, or creating them using grouping and merging, it is good to keep a couple of things in mind. The first thing you need to remember is that when you group objects, they still remain available as individual objects. Transformations applied to the parent also affect the children, but you can still transform the children individually. Besides grouping, you can also merge geometries together. With this approach, you lose the individual geometries and get a single new geometry. This is especially useful when you're dealing with thousands of geometries you need to render and you're running into performance issues.

Three.js supports a large number of external formats. When using these format...

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