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Learning Three.js: The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL - Second Edition

Learning Three.js: The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL - Second Edition

By : Jos Dirksen
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Learning Three.js: The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL - Second Edition

Learning Three.js: The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL - Second Edition

4.4 (14)
By: Jos Dirksen
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Overview of this book

If you know JavaScript and want to start creating 3D graphics that run in any browser, this book is a great choice for you. You don't need to know anything about math or WebGL; all that you need is general knowledge of JavaScript and HTML.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Creating Your First 3D Scene with Three.js
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1. Creating Your First 3D Scene with Three.js
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Requirements to use Three.js
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Getting the source code
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Creating the HTML skeleton
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Rendering and viewing a 3D object
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Adding materials, lights, and shadows
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Expanding your first scene with animations
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Using dat.GUI to make experimenting easier
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Automatically resize the output when browser size changes
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2. Basic Components That Make Up a Three.js Scene
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2. Basic Components That Make Up a Three.js Scene
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Creating a scene
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Geometries and meshes
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Different cameras for different uses
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3. Working with the Different Light Sources Available in Three.js
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3. Working with the Different Light Sources Available in Three.js
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Different kinds of lighting provided by Three.js
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Basic lights
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Special lights
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4. Working with Three.js Materials
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4. Working with Three.js Materials
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Understanding common material properties
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Starting with a simple mesh
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Advanced materials
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Materials you can use for a line geometry
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5. Learning to Work with Geometries
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5. Learning to Work with Geometries
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The basic geometries provided by Three.js
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6. Advanced Geometries and Binary Operations
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6. Advanced Geometries and Binary Operations
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THREE.ConvexGeometry
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THREE.LatheGeometry
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Creating 3D text
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Using binary operations to combine meshes
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7. Particles, Sprites, and the Point Cloud
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7. Particles, Sprites, and the Point Cloud
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Understanding particles
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Particles, THREE.PointCloud, and THREE.PointCloudMaterial
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Styling particles with the HTML5 canvas
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Using textures to style particles
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Working with sprite maps
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Creating THREE.PointCloud from an advanced geometry
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8. Creating and Loading Advanced Meshes and Geometries
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8. Creating and Loading Advanced Meshes and Geometries
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Geometry grouping and merging
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9. Animations and Moving the Camera
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9. Animations and Moving the Camera
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Basic animations
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Working with the camera
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Morphing and skeletal animation
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Creating animations using external models
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10. Loading and Working with Textures
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10. Loading and Working with Textures
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Using textures in materials
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Advanced usage of textures
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11. Custom Shaders and Render Postprocessing
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11. Custom Shaders and Render Postprocessing
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Setting up Three.js for postprocessing
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Postprocessing passes
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Creating custom postprocessing shaders
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12. Adding Physics and Sounds to Your Scene
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12. Adding Physics and Sounds to Your Scene
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Creating a basic Three.js scene
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Material properties
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Basic supported shapes
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Using constraints to limit movement of objects
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Index
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Index

Chapter 3. Working with the Different Light Sources Available in Three.js

In the first chapter, you learned about the basics of Three.js, and in the previous chapter, we looked a bit deeper at the most important parts of the scene: the geometries, meshes, and cameras. You might have noticed that we skipped lights in that chapter even though they make up an important part of every Three.js scene. Without lights, we won't see anything rendered. Since Three.js contains a large number of lights, each of which has a specific use, we'll use this whole chapter to explain the various details of the lights and prepare you for the next chapter on material usage.

Note

WebGL itself doesn't have inherent support for lighting. Without Three.js, you would have to write specific WebGL shader programs to simulate these kinds of lights. A good introduction on simulating lighting in WebGL from scratch can be found at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/WebGL/Lighting_in_WebGL...

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