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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Materials you can use for a line geometry

The last couple of materials we’re going to look at can only be used on one specific mesh: THREE.Line. As the name implies, this is just a single line that only consists of lines and doesn’t contain any faces. Three.js provides two different materials you can use on a THREE.Line geometry, as follows:

THREE.LineBasicMaterial: This basic material for a line allows you to set the color and vertexColors properties.
THREE.LineDashedMaterial: This has the same properties as THREE.LineBasicMaterial but allows you to create a dashed line effect by specifying dash and spacing sizes.

We’ll start with the basic variant; after that, we’ll look at the dashed variant.

THREE.LineBasicMaterial

The materials that are available for the THREE.Line geometry are very simple. It inherits all of the properties from THREE.Material, but the following are the properties that are most important for this material:

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