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Learn Three.js

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803233871
Length 554 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

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 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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We discussed many different postprocessing options in this chapter. As you saw, creating EffectComposer and chaining passes together is actually very easy. You just have to keep a few things in mind. Not all passes will have an output on the screen. If you want to output to the screen, you can always use ShaderPass with CopyShader. The sequence in which you add passes to a composer is important. The effects are applied in that sequence. If you want to reuse the result from a specific EffectComposer instance, you can do so by using TexturePass. When you have more than one RenderPass in your EffectComposer, make sure to set the clear property to false. If not, you’ll only see the output from the last RenderPass step. If you want to only apply an effect to a specific object, you can use MaskPass. When you’re done with the mask, clear the mask with ClearMaskPass. Besides the standard passes provided by Three.js, there are also many standard shaders available. You...

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