Preface

• Who this book is for
• What this book covers
• To get the most out of this book
• Download the example code files
• Conventions used
• Get in touch

1. Part 1: Getting Up and Running

2. Chapter 1: Creating Your First 3D Scene with Three.js FREE CHAPTER

• Technical requirements
• Testing and experimenting with the examples
• Exploring the HTML structure for Three.js applications
• Rendering and viewing a 3D object
• Helper objects and util functions
• Summary

3. Chapter 2: The Basic Components that Make up a Three.js Application

• Creating a scene
• How geometries and meshes are related
• Using different cameras for different scenes
• Summary

4. Chapter 3: Working with Light Sources in Three.js

• What lighting types are provided in Three.js?
• Working with basic lights
• Working with special lights
• Summary

5. Part 2: Working with the Three.js Core Components

6. Chapter 4: Working with Three.js Materials

• Understanding common material properties
• Starting with simple materials
• Advanced materials
• Materials you can use for a line geometry
• Summary

7. Chapter 5: Learning to Work with Geometries

• 2D geometries
• 3D geometries
• Summary

8. Chapter 6: Exploring Advanced Geometries

• Learning advanced geometries
• Creating a geometry by extruding a 2D shape
• Geometries you can use for debugging
• Creating a 3D text mesh
• Summary

9. Chapter 7: Points and Sprites

• Understanding points and sprites
• Styling particles using textures
• Working with sprite maps
• Creating THREE.Points from existing geometry
• Summary

10. Part 3: Particle Clouds, Loading and Animating Models

11. Chapter 8: Creating and Loading Advanced Meshes and Geometries

• Geometry grouping and merging
• Loading geometries from external resources
• Importing from 3D file formats
• Summary

12. Chapter 9: Animation and Moving the Camera

• Basic animations
• Working with the camera
• Morphing and skeleton animation
• Creating animations using external models
• Summary

13. Chapter 10: Loading and Working with Textures

• Using textures in materials
• Rendering to a canvas and using it as a texture
• Summary

14. Part 4: Post-Processing, Physics, and Sounds

15. Chapter 11: Render Postprocessing

• Setting up Three.js for postprocessing
• Postprocessing passes
• Advanced EffectComposer flows using masks
• Using THREE.ShaderPass for custom effects
• Creating custom postprocessing shaders
• Summary

16. Chapter 12: Adding Physics and Sounds to Your Scene

• Creating a basic Three.js scene with Rapier
• Simulating dominos in Rapier
• Working with restitution and friction
• Rapier-supported shapes
• Using joints to limit the movement of objects
• Adding sound sources to your scene
• Summary

17. Chapter 13: Working with Blender and Three.js

• Exporting from Three.js and importing into Blender
• Exporting a static scene from Blender and importing it into Three.js
• Exporting an animation from Blender and importing it into Three.js
• Baking lightmaps and ambient occlusion maps in Blender
• Custom UV modeling in Blender
• Summary

18. Chapter 14: Three.js Together with React, TypeScript, and Web-XR

• Using Three.js with TypeScript
• Using Three.js and React with TypeScript
• Using Three.js and React with React Three Fiber
• Three.js and VR
• Three.js and AR
• Summary

19. Index

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