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ThreeJS
Three.js - Particles
Three.js - Shaders

Basics

/**
 * Test cube
 */
 const cube = new THREE.Mesh(
    new THREE.BoxGeometry(1, 1, 1),
    new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial()
)
scene.add(cube)

Helfer

Axes Helper

Koordinatenachsen anzeigen

const axesHelper = new THREE.AxesHelper( 5 );
scene.add( axesHelper );

Viewport Settings

Handle Viewport Resizing

window.addEventListener('resize', () =>{
  console.log('window resized')
  // Update sizes
  sizes.width = window.innerWidth
  sizes.height = window.innerHeight
  // Update camera
  camera.aspect = sizes.width/sizes.height
  camera.updateProjectionMatrix()
  // Update renderer
  renderer.setSize(sizes.width,sizes.height)
  renderer.setPixelRatio( Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio, 2) ) // in case monitor changed in double monitor settings
})

Handle Pixel Ratio Setting (Retina Displays)

Retina Displays haben eine Pixel Ratio von 2. D.h. das Display kann einen "Software"Bildpixel nochmal auf 4 physische Pixel verteilen und damit vor allem Vektoren nochmal schärfer darstellen. ThreeJS kann diese zusätzlichen Pixel ebenfalls nutzen wenn man dem renderer die Pixel Ratio mitgibt. Allerdings muss der Renderer auch mehr tun.

Moderne Handys haben Ratios bis zu 5, das ist allerdings sinnlos mehr als 2 oder 3 sehen wir bei normalem Betrachtungsabstand eh nicht. Deshalb setzen wir wenn möglich einen Ratio so hoch wie das Gerät kann aber nicht höher als 2 um die Performance zu erhalten.

renderer.setPixelRatio( Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio, 2) )

Handle Fullscreen Mode

// Handle Fullscreen 
// including safari (needs webkit prefix)
window.addEventListener('dblclick', () =>
{
    const fullscreenElement = document.fullscreenElement || document.webkitFullscreenElement

    if(!fullscreenElement)
    {
        if(canvas.requestFullscreen)
        {
            canvas.requestFullscreen()
        }
        else if(canvas.webkitRequestFullscreen)
        {
            canvas.webkitRequestFullscreen()
        }
    }
    else
    {
        if(document.exitFullscreen)
        {
            document.exitFullscreen()
        }
        else if(document.webkitExitFullscreen)
        {
            document.webkitExitFullscreen()
        }
    }
})

Animation

Three.js - Animation
Three.js - Scroll Based Animation

Timebased Tick / Loop Function

ThreeJS Clock Object

const clock = new THREE.Clock()
const tick = () =>
{
    // Hint: do NOT use clock.getDelta() - it can cause problems (buggy in end of 2021)
    const elapsedTime = clock.getElapsedTime()
    //console.log(elapsedTime)
    mesh.rotation.y = elapsedTime * Math.PI * 2 // one revolution / s
    camera.lookAt(mesh.position)
    camera.position.z = Math.sin(elapsedTime) // back and forth
    // Render
    renderer.render(scene, camera)
    window.requestAnimationFrame(tick) 
}
tick()

GSAP Animation

// GSAP has it's own requestAnimationFrame, thus no time calculation needed
// we just let gsap update our values and tick does render each frame
gsap.to(mesh.position,{ duration: 1, delay: 1, x: 2 })
gsap.to(mesh.position,{ duration: 1, delay: 1, x: 0 })
const tick = () =>
{
    // Render on each frame
    renderer.render(scene, camera)
    window.requestAnimationFrame(tick) 
}
// GO...
tick()

Nützliche Snippets für Animationen

Kreisbewegung / Circular Movement

myObject.position.y = Math.sin(elapsedTime) //(-1 -> 1 -> -1 -> ...)
myObject.position.x = Math.cos(elapsedTime)

Cursor auswerten

// Sizes
const sizes = { width: 800,  height: 600}
// Cursor
const cursor = {
    x: 0,
    y: 0
}
window.addEventListener('mousemove', (event) => 
{
    //cursor.x = event.clientX / sizes.width // 0 <= x <= 1
    cursor.x = event.clientX / sizes.width - 0.5// -0.5 <= x <= +0.5
    cursor.y = event.clientY / sizes.height - 0.5// -0.5 <= x <= +0.5
    console.log('x: ' + cursor.x)
    console.log('y: ' + cursor.y)
})
// ...
// Update camera with position
    camera.position.x = cursor.x * 10
    camera.position.y = cursor.y * 10

Kamera auf einer Kreisbahn

Das obige Beispiel läßt sich ausbauen. Die Mausbewegung gibt uns nun cursor.x Werte von -0.5 bis 0.5. Wenn wir auf zwei Achsen sinus und cosinus kombinieren bekommen wir eine Kreisbahn um den Mittelpunkt auf der Ebene dieser beiden Achsen. Eine volle Umdrehung bekommen wir wenn wir mit 2xPi multiplizieren. Den Abstand vergrößern wir wenn wir das Ergebnis mit irgendeinem Faktor multiplizieren.

    // Update camera
    camera.position.x = Math.sin(cursor.x * 2 * Math.PI) * 3
    camera.position.z = Math.cos(cursor.x * 2 * Math.PI) * 3
    camera.position.y = cursor.y * 5 // damit wir auch etwas von oben oder unten schauen können
    camera.lookAt(mesh.position) // look at center

Für eine Kreisbahn um ein Objekt das nicht im Mittelpunkt ist, müßten wir noch die Koordinaten des Objekts auslesen und zu den Kamerakoordinaten addieren. So könnten wir den kompletten Kreis verschieben.

Bouncing Sphere + Shadow

    // Update the sphere
    sphere.position.x = Math.cos(elapsedTime) * 1.5
    sphere.position.z = Math.sin(elapsedTime) * 1.5
    sphere.position.y = Math.abs(Math.sin(elapsedTime * 3))

    // Update the shadow accordingly
    sphereShadow.position.x = sphere.position.x
    sphereShadow.position.z = sphere.position.z
    sphereShadow.material.opacity = (1 - sphere.position.y) * 0.3

Orbit Controls

https://threejs.org/docs/index.html?q=controls#examples/en/controls/OrbitControls

ThreeJS spart mit eigenen Control Klassen eine Menge Arbeit. OrbitControls müssen zusätzlich geladen werden. Also in HTML

<script src="/javascripts/OrbitControls.js"></script>

Oder z.B. in Webpack:

import { OrbitControls } from 'three/examples/jsm/controls/OrbitControls.js'

Dann erstellt man einfach ein OrbitControl Objekt und übergibt die Kamera und ein DOM Objekt (i.d.R. das Canvas).

const controls = new OrbitControls(camera,canvas)

Geometry Snippets

Create Geometry / Geometry Objekt erzeugen

Three.js - eigene Geometrie erzeugen

Beispiel: viele zufällige Dreiecke erzeugen

// Object
// const geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2)
const geometry = new THREE.BufferGeometry()
const count = 50
const positionsArray = new Float32Array(count * 3 * 3)
for (let i = 0; i < positionsArray.length; i++) {
    positionsArray[i] = Math.random() - 0.5 //-0.5 < x < 0.5
}
const positionsAttribute = new THREE.BufferAttribute(positionsArray,3) // use vals 3 by 3
geometry.setAttribute('position',positionsAttribute) // position is the attribute name in shaders

// Example Array
// const positionsArray = new Float32Array([
//     0,0,0,
//     0,1,0,
//     1,0,0
// ])

Debugging

lil-gui

// https://lil-gui.georgealways.com/#
import GUI from 'lil-gui'; 
/**
 * Debug
 */
const gui = new GUI({
    width:400
})
gui.close()
//...
// Debug
//gui.add(mesh.position,'y',-2,2,0.1) // OR
gui.add(mesh.position,'y')
  .min(-2)
  .max(3)
  .step(0.1)
  .name('elevation') // chain version
gui.add(mesh,'visible')
gui.add(material,'wireframe')
// we can not use material.color as it's not an object
// thus we use a separately created object...
// ... and update material when this param changed:
gui.addColor(params,'color')
.onChange( ()=>
{
    material.color.set(params.color)
})
gui.add(params, 'spin')

Beispiel: Renderer ClearColor

// Debug
const params = {}
const gui = new dat.GUI({width: 400})
params.clearColor = '#2b4945'
//...
renderer.setClearColor(params.clearColor)
gui.addColor(params, 'clearColor').onChange( () => {renderer.setClearColor(params.clearColor)})

Textures

https://threejs.org/docs/index.html?q=texture#api/en/constants/Textures
three.js - Textures - ausführliche Infos zu TextureLoader Callbacks, LoadingManager...
three.js - baked map texture

Beispiel

/**
 * Textures
 */
const textureLoader = new THREE.TextureLoader()

const doorColorTexture = textureLoader.load('/textures/door/color.jpg')
const doorAlphaTexture = textureLoader.load('/textures/door/alpha.jpg')
const doorAmbientOcclusionTexture = textureLoader.load('/textures/door/ambientOcclusion.jpg')
const doorHeightTexture = textureLoader.load('/textures/door/height.jpg')
const doorNormalTexture = textureLoader.load('/textures/door/normal.jpg')
const doorMetalnessTexture = textureLoader.load('/textures/door/metalness.jpg')
const doorRoughnessTexture = textureLoader.load('/textures/door/roughness.jpg')

// HOW TO REPEAT TILES - uv wrapping
const repeat = 10;

const grassColorTexture = textureLoader.load('/textures/grass/color.jpg')
const grassNormalTexture = textureLoader.load('/textures/grass/normal.jpg')
const grassRoughnessTexture = textureLoader.load('/textures/grass/roughness.jpg')

grassColorTexture.repeat.set(repeat,repeat)
grassNormalTexture.repeat.set(repeat,repeat)
grassRoughnessTexture.repeat.set(repeat,repeat)

grassColorTexture.wrapS = THREE.RepeatWrapping
grassNormalTexture.wrapS = THREE.RepeatWrapping
grassRoughnessTexture.wrapS = THREE.RepeatWrapping

grassColorTexture.wrapT = THREE.RepeatWrapping
grassNormalTexture.wrapT = THREE.RepeatWrapping
grassRoughnessTexture.wrapT = THREE.RepeatWrapping

//...

/** 
 * Objects
 */

// Door
const door = new THREE.Mesh(
    new THREE.PlaneGeometry(2,2,100,100),// HEIGHTMAP NEEDS SOME SUBDIVISIONS
    new THREE.MeshStandardMaterial({
        map: doorColorTexture,
        transparent: true, // NEEDED FOR ALPHA TO WORK
        alphaMap: doorAlphaTexture,
        aoMap: doorAmbientOcclusionTexture,
        displacementMap: doorHeightTexture,
        displacementScale: 0.05,
        normalMap: doorNormalTexture,
        metalnessMap: doorMetalnessTexture,
        roughnessMap: doorRoughnessTexture,
        //wireframe: true
    })
)
// AOMAP NEEDS HIS OWN UV ATTRIBUTE (here we copy from geometry)
door.geometry.setAttribute('uv2', new THREE.Float32BufferAttribute(door.geometry.attributes.uv.array, 2))

house.add(door)

// Floor
const floor = new THREE.Mesh(
    new THREE.PlaneGeometry(20, 20),
    new THREE.MeshStandardMaterial({ 
        //color: '#a9c388',
        map: grassColorTexture,
        normalMap: grassNormalTexture,
        roughnessMap: grassRoughnessTexture    
    })
)

floor.rotation.x = - Math.PI * 0.5
floor.position.y = 0

scene.add(floor)

Materials

three.js - materials - Mehr Info und weitere Materialien.

MeshBasicMaterial

const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial()
material.color.set(0xaabb00)
material.map = doorColorTexture
material.side = DoubleSide
material.wireframe = true
material.transparent = true
material.opacity = 0.5
material.alphaMap = doorAlphaTexture

MeshMatcapMaterial

https://github.com/nidorx/matcaps - gute Quelle

// MATCAP - simulate lights / good for modelling
const textureLoader = new THREE.TextureLoader()
const matcapTexture = textureLoader.load('textures/matcaps/1.jpg')
const material = new THREE.MeshMatcapMaterial()
material.matcap = matcapTexture

MeshStandardMaterial

Standard Physical Based Rendering Material

// TEXTURES
const textureLoader = new THREE.TextureLoader()
const doorColorTexture = textureLoader.load('textures/door/color.jpg')
const doorAlphaTexture = textureLoader.load('textures/door/alpha.jpg')
const doorAmbientOcclusionTexture = textureLoader.load('textures/door/ambientOcclusion.jpg')
const doorHeightTexture = textureLoader.load('textures/door/height.jpg')
const doorMetalnessTexture = textureLoader.load('textures/door/metalness.jpg')
const doorNormalTexture = textureLoader.load('textures/door/normal.jpg')
const doorRoughnessTexture = textureLoader.load('textures/door/roughness.jpg')

// STANDARD MATERIAL
const material = new THREE.MeshStandardMaterial()
material.side = DoubleSide
material.map = doorColorTexture

material.roughness = 1 // default
material.roughnessMap = doorRoughnessTexture

material.metalness = 0 // default
material.metalnessMap = doorMetalnessTexture

material.aoMap = doorAmbientOcclusionTexture
material.aoMapIntensity = 1.1

material.displacementMap = doorHeightTexture
material.displacementScale = 0.03

material.normalMap = doorNormalTexture
material.normalScale.set(0.5,0.5)

material.transparent = true // needed for alpha to work
material.alphaMap = doorAlphaTexture

// OBJECTS
const plane = new THREE.Mesh(
    new THREE.PlaneGeometry(1,1,100,100), // subdivisions needed for height map
    material
)
// copy uv coordinates to uv2 attribute needed by aomap
plane.geometry.setAttribute(
    'uv2', 
    new THREE.BufferAttribute(plane.geometry.attributes.uv.array,2)
)

Environment Map

Three.js - Environment Map (Panorama)

// ENVIRONMENTAL MAP
const cubeTextureLoader = new THREE.CubeTextureLoader()
// load cube-images in the right order...
const environmentMapTexture = cubeTextureLoader.load([
    '/textures/environmentMaps/4/px.png',
    '/textures/environmentMaps/4/nx.png',
    '/textures/environmentMaps/4/py.png',
    '/textures/environmentMaps/4/ny.png',
    '/textures/environmentMaps/4/pz.png',
    '/textures/environmentMaps/4/nz.png',
])
const material = new THREE.MeshStandardMaterial()
material.envMap = environmentMapTexture
material.metalness = 0.7
material.roughness = 0.2

gui.add(material, 'metalness').min(0).max(1).step(0.0001)
gui.add(material, 'roughness').min(0).max(1).step(0.0001)

Hinweise

Eigenschaften kann man als Konstruktor Objekt übergeben oder direkt setzen oder über set (manchmal praktischer, wenn als Eigenschaftswert ein Objekt erwartet wird (z.B. bei der Farbe ein Farbobjekt)

3D Text

Three.js - 3D Text
http://gero3.github.io/facetype.js/ - Konvertieren von Fonts nach Facetype

Fontloader

Hinweis: Seit three.js 133 muss der Fontloader und die Fontgeometry importiert werden.

https://threejs.org/docs/index.html?q=fontloa#examples/en/loaders/FontLoader

Basic Example

import { FontLoader } from 'three/examples/jsm/loaders/FontLoader.js'
import { TextGeometry } from 'three/examples/jsm/geometries/TextGeometry.js'//i.e. with webpack
//...
/**
 * Fonts
 */
const fontLoader = new FontLoader()

fontLoader.load(
    //'/fonts/helvetiker_regular.typeface.json',
    '/fonts/BebasNeueBook_Regular.json',
    (font) =>
    {
        console.log('font loaded')
        const textGeometry = new TextGeometry(
            'KHOLJA',
            {
                font: font,
                size: 0.5,
                height: 0.2, // more like extrusion depth
                curveSegments: 8,
                bevelEnabled: true,
                bevelThickness: 0.03,
                bevelSize: 0.01,
                bevelOffset: 0,
                bevelSegments: 4
            }
        )
        textGeometry.center() // easy method to center the text
        const textMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial()
        textMaterial.wireframe = true
        const text = new THREE.Mesh(textGeometry,textMaterial)
        scene.add(text)
    }
)

Lights

Three.js - Lights

Light Starters

Neutral Starter

/**
 * Lights
 */
// Ambient light
const ambientLight = new THREE.AmbientLight('#ffffff', 0.5)
gui.add(ambientLight, 'intensity').min(0).max(1).step(0.001)
scene.add(ambientLight)

// Directional light
const directionalLight = new THREE.DirectionalLight('#ffffff', 0.5)
directionalLight.position.set(4, 5, - 2)
gui.add(directionalLight, 'intensity').min(0).max(1).step(0.001)
gui.add(directionalLight.position, 'x').min(- 5).max(5).step(0.001)
gui.add(directionalLight.position, 'y').min(- 5).max(5).step(0.001)
gui.add(directionalLight.position, 'z').min(- 5).max(5).step(0.001)
scene.add(moonLight)

Moonlight Starter

/**
 * Lights
 */
// Ambient light
const ambientLight = new THREE.AmbientLight('#b9d5ff', 0.5)
gui.add(ambientLight, 'intensity').min(0).max(1).step(0.001)
scene.add(ambientLight)

// Directional light
const moonLight = new THREE.DirectionalLight('#b9d5ff', 0.5)
moonLight.position.set(4, 5, - 2)
gui.add(moonLight, 'intensity').min(0).max(1).step(0.001)
gui.add(moonLight.position, 'x').min(- 5).max(5).step(0.001)
gui.add(moonLight.position, 'y').min(- 5).max(5).step(0.001)
gui.add(moonLight.position, 'z').min(- 5).max(5).step(0.001)
scene.add(moonLight)

Shadows / Schatten

Three.js - Shadows - Ausführliche Infos zu Schatten

Komplettes Beispiel

//...
/**
 * Lights
 */
// Ambient light
const ambientLight = new THREE.AmbientLight(0xffffff, 0.5)
gui.add(ambientLight, 'intensity').min(0).max(1).step(0.001)
scene.add(ambientLight)

// Directional light
const directionalLight = new THREE.DirectionalLight(0xffffff, 0.5)
directionalLight.position.set(2, 2, - 1)
gui.add(directionalLight, 'intensity').min(0).max(1).step(0.001)
gui.add(directionalLight.position, 'x').min(- 5).max(5).step(0.001)
gui.add(directionalLight.position, 'y').min(- 5).max(5).step(0.001)
gui.add(directionalLight.position, 'z').min(- 5).max(5).step(0.001)

// Add Shadow and mapsize
directionalLight.castShadow = true
directionalLight.shadow.mapSize.x = 1024
directionalLight.shadow.mapSize.y = 1024
// Shadow camera settings...
directionalLight.shadow.camera.near = 1
directionalLight.shadow.camera.far = 6
// ...important for quality
directionalLight.shadow.camera.left = -2
directionalLight.shadow.camera.right = 2
directionalLight.shadow.camera.top = 2
directionalLight.shadow.camera.bottom = -2
// adding a bit of a cheap blur
// directionalLight.shadow.radius = 4

scene.add(directionalLight)

// Shadow camera helper
const directionalLightCameraHelper = new THREE.CameraHelper(directionalLight.shadow.camera)
scene.add(directionalLightCameraHelper)

// ...

/**
 * Objects
 */
sphere.castShadow = true
// ...
plane.receiveShadow = true
// ...
scene.add(sphere, plane)

/**
 * Renderer
 */
const renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({
    canvas: canvas
})
renderer.setSize(sizes.width, sizes.height)
renderer.setPixelRatio(Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio, 2))

// Renderer Shadowmap settings
renderer.shadowMap.enabled = true 
renderer.shadowMap.type = THREE.PCFSoftShadowMap; // default THREE.PCFShadowMap

Shadow Baking

Wie Texturen kann man auch Schatten baken. Nachteil. Bei Bewegung des Objekts bewegt sich der

/**
 * Textures
 */
const textureLoader = new THREE.TextureLoader()
const bakedShadow = textureLoader.load('/textures/bakedShadow.jpg')
//...
const plane = new THREE.Mesh(
    new THREE.PlaneGeometry(5, 5),
    new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
        map: bakedShadow
    })
)
// we don't need the rendered shadows in this case
renderer.shadowMap.enabled = false

Dynamic Shadow Baking

Beispiel Kugel mit animiertem Fake-Schatten

const textureLoader = new THREE.TextureLoader()
const simpleShadow = textureLoader.load('/textures/simpleShadow.jpg')

// Sphere Shadow
const sphereShadow = new THREE.Mesh(
    new THREE.PlaneGeometry(1.5, 1.5),
    new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
        color: 0x000000,
        transparent: true,
        alphaMap: simpleShadow
    })
)
sphereShadow.rotation.x = - Math.PI * 0.5
sphereShadow.position.y = plane.position.y + 0.01

scene.add(sphere, sphereShadow, plane)

//...

/**
 * Animate
 */
const clock = new THREE.Clock()

const tick = () =>
{
    const elapsedTime = clock.getElapsedTime()

    // Update the sphere
    sphere.position.x = Math.cos(elapsedTime) * 1.5
    sphere.position.z = Math.sin(elapsedTime) * 1.5
    sphere.position.y = Math.abs(Math.sin(elapsedTime * 3))

    // Update the shadow accordingly
    sphereShadow.position.x = sphere.position.x
    sphereShadow.position.z = sphere.position.z
    sphereShadow.material.opacity = (1 - sphere.position.y) * 0.3

    // Update controls
    controls.update()

    // Render
    renderer.render(scene, camera)

    // Call tick again on the next frame
    window.requestAnimationFrame(tick)
}

tick()

Fog

Three.js - Fog

//...
// Fog
const fog = new THREE.Fog('#262837', 1, 15)
scene.fog = fog 
//...
renderer.setClearColor('#262837')

Particles

Benötigen eine Geometry, ein Material, ein Points Objekt (statt wie sonst ein Mesh)

Three.js - Particles

Starter Examples

/**
 * Particles
 */
// Geometry
const particlesGeometry = new THREE.SphereBufferGeometry(1,32,32)
// Material
const particlesMaterial = new THREE.PointsMaterial({
    size: 0.02,
    sizeAttenuation: true, //perspective smaller if far
})
// Points
const particles = new THREE.Points(particlesGeometry, particlesMaterial)
scene.add(particles)

Random Points Starter

/**
 * Fireflies
 */
const firefliesGeometry = new THREE.BufferGeometry()
const firefliesCount = 30
const positionArray = new Float32Array(firefliesCount * 3)

for(let i = 0; i < firefliesCount; i++)
{
    positionArray[i * 3 + 0] = ( Math.random() -0.5) * 4.5 // x from -0.5 to 4
    positionArray[i * 3 + 1] = ( Math.random() + 0.05) * 3 // y from 0.05 to 2.95
    positionArray[i * 3 + 2] = ( Math.random() ) * 4.5 // z from 0 to 4.5
}

firefliesGeometry.setAttribute('position', new THREE.BufferAttribute(positionArray, 3))
const firefliesMaterial = new THREE.PointsMaterial({ size: 0.1, sizeAttenuation: true })
const fireflies = new THREE.Points(firefliesGeometry, firefliesMaterial)

scene.add(fireflies)

Models Importieren

Three.js - Import Models

import { GLTFLoader } from 'three/examples/jsm/loaders/GLTFLoader.js'
//...
const gltfLoader = new GLTFLoader()
gltfLoader.load(
    '/models/FlightHelmet/glTF/FlightHelmet.gltf',
    (gltf) => { 
        console.log(gltf) //success - show what we got
        const children = [...gltf.scene.children] // duplicate
        for(const child of children){
            scene.add(child)
        }
        //scene.add(gltf.scene)
        //scene.add(gltf.scene.children[1])
    },
    () => {console.log('progress')},
    () => {console.log('error')}
)

DRACO Loader nutzen

import { GLTFLoader } from 'three/examples/jsm/loaders/GLTFLoader.js'
import { DRACOLoader } from 'three/examples/jsm/loaders/DRACOLoader.js'
//...
const dracoLoader = new DRACOLoader()
dracoLoader.setDecoderPath("/draco/") // get webassembly version (faster but you have to provide the appropriate draco files)

const gltfLoader = new GLTFLoader()
gltfLoader.setDRACOLoader(dracoLoader)
gltfLoader.load(
    '/models/Duck/glTF-Draco/Duck.gltf',
    (gltf) => { 
        scene.add(gltf.scene)
    }
)

Starters

Three.js - Starters

Helpers

Nützliche Renderer Settings

/**
 * Renderer
 */
const renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({
    canvas: canvas,
})
renderer.setSize(sizes.width, sizes.height)
renderer.setPixelRatio(Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio, 2))
renderer.setClearColor('#262837')

Nützliche Animation Settings

/**
 * Animate
 */
const clock = new THREE.Clock()

const tick = () =>
{
    const elapsedTime = clock.getElapsedTime()

    // Update material (used for own Shader only)
    material.uniforms.uTime.value = elapsedTime

    // Update controls (used for orbit controls only)
    controls.update()

    // Render
    renderer.render(scene, camera)

    // Call tick again on the next frame
    window.requestAnimationFrame(tick)
}

tick()

Orbit Controls

Don't forget to update in tick function, when animating

// Controls
const controls = new OrbitControls(camera, canvas)
controls.enableDamping = true

Optimizations

Materialien und Geometrien wiederverwenden

Das Erstellen von komplexen Objekten kann zeit- und speicherintensiv sein.

console.time('donuts')
for(let i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
    const donutGeometry = new THREE.TorusGeometry(0.3, 0.2, 20, 45)
    const donutMaterial = new THREE.MeshMatcapMaterial({ matcap: matcapTexture })
    const donut = new THREE.Mesh(donutGeometry, donutMaterial)
    scene.add(donut)
}
console.timeend('donuts')

Zwei Zeilen umgestellt aber weit über 100mal schneller !

console.time('donuts')
const donutGeometry = new THREE.TorusGeometry(0.3, 0.2, 20, 45)
const donutMaterial = new THREE.MeshMatcapMaterial({ matcap: matcapTexture })
for(let i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
    const donut = new THREE.Mesh(donutGeometry, donutMaterial)
    scene.add(donut)
}
console.timeend('donuts')

Nützliche Schnipsel

Objekte auf Ringbahn positionieren

// Graveyard
const graves = new THREE.Group()
scene.add(graves)
const graveGeometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(0.6, 0.8, 0.2)
const graveMaterial = new THREE.MeshStandardMaterial({color: '#b2b6b1'})

for (let i = 0; i  < 50; i++) {
    const min = 4 // minimaler Radius
    const max = 8.5 // maximaler Radius
    const radius = min + Math.random() * (max-min)// Radius zwischen min und max
    const angle = Math.random() * 2*Math.PI // 0 < angle < 2PI (voller Kreis im Bogenmaß)
    // (Bogen)Winkel in x,z Koordinaten umrechnen. Ohne * radius wäre Abstand 1
    const x = Math.sin(angle) * radius
    const z = Math.cos(angle) * radius
    const y = 0.35
    
    const grave = new THREE.Mesh(graveGeometry, graveMaterial)
    grave.position.set(x,y,z)
    // Setze Grabsteine leicht schief und verdreht
    grave.rotation.y = (Math.random() - 0.5) * 0.4
    grave.rotation.z = (Math.random() - 0.5) * 0.3 
    
    graves.add(grave)
}

Zufallsarrays für Particles sinnvoll aufbauen

for(let i = 0; i < firefliesCount; i++)
{
    positionArray[i * 3 + 0] = Math.random() * 4
    positionArray[i * 3 + 1] = Math.random() * 4
    positionArray[i * 3 + 2] = Math.random() * 4
}
console.log(positionArray)

Cool Colors

#ac8e82 - brown walls
#a9c388 - green night grass
#89c854 - green bush
#b35f45 - greek roof red
#b2b6b1 - grey tombstone
#b9d5ff - blue moonlight
#ff7d49 - orange warm light
#262837 - blueish fog