Creating a scene
In the previous chapter, you created THREE.Scene, so you already know the basics of Three.js. We saw that for a scene to show anything, we need three types of components:
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Component |
Description |
|---|---|
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Camera |
This determines what is rendered on the screen. |
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Lights |
These have an effect on how materials are shown and used when creating shadow effects (discussed in detail in Chapter 3, Working with the Different Light Sources Available in Three.js). |
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Objects |
These are the main objects that are rendered from the perspective of the camera: cubes, spheres, and the like. |
THREE.Scene serves as the container for all these different objects. This object itself doesn't have that many options and functions.
Note
THREE.Scene is a structure that is sometimes also called a scene graph. A scene graph is a structure that can hold all necessary information of a graphical scene. In Three.js, this means that THREE.Scene contains all the objects, lights, and other objects necessary for rendering...
