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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Summary

We saw a lot in this chapter. We introduced a couple of advanced geometries and showed you how you can create and render text elements with Three.js. We showed you how you can create really beautiful shapes using advanced geometries such as THREE.ConvexGeometry, THREE.TubeGeometry, and THREE.LatheGeometry and how can you experiment with these geometries to get the results you’re looking for. A very nice feature is that we can also convert existing SVG paths to Three.js using THREE.ExtrudeGeometry.

We’ve also quickly looked at a couple of geometries that are very useful for debugging purposes. THREE.EdgesGeometry shows just the edges of another geometry, and THREE.WireframeGeometry can be used to show the wireframe of some other geometry.

Finally, if you want to create 3D text, Three.js provides TextGeometry, where you can pass in a font that you want to use. Three.js comes with a couple of fonts, but you can also create your own fonts. However, remember...