Use physijs to give three.js Questions about adding physical effects? - three.js

I created a ground, then I dug a gap in it, and finally added physical effects through physijs.
let Mesh = new THREE.Mesh(new THREE.BoxGeometry(800, 10, 800), material);
Mesh = new ThreeBSP(Mesh);
let Gap = new THREE.Mesh(new THREE.BoxGeometry(230, 10, 170), material);
Gap = new ThreeBSP(Gap);
Mesh = Mesh.subtract(Gap).toMesh(material);
Mesh = new Physijs.BoxMesh(Mesh.geometry, Mesh.material, 0);
scene.add(Mesh);
Then you create a collection with physical effects. The plan is to fall from the hole in the ground, and the result appears to be suspended in the hole. Why?
let geometry = new Physijs.BoxMesh(new THREE.CylinderGeometry(10, 15, 50, 25), material, 1);
geometry.position.set(0, 500, 0);
scene.add(geometry);
I'm building a house. I'm digging holes in the floor and walls to represent staircases and doors, and then I add physical effects to the floor and walls. In the plan, objects representing people can pass through these holes, but they are blocked. People are directly suspended above the holes in the stairway, and the door can't pass through, as if blocked by an invisible wall

Physijs.BoxMesh will just create a box with eight corners and flat planes in between. Have you looked into using Physijs.ConcaveMesh? I couldn't find any documentation, but you can see it in the source code.
Mesh = Mesh.subtract(Gap).toMesh(material);
Mesh = new Physijs.ConcaveMesh(Mesh.geometry, Mesh.material, 0);
scene.add(Mesh);

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Why is three.js inconsistent about gouraud interpolation?

I want to shade a THREE.BoxBufferGeometry using a simple THREE.MeshLambertMaterial. The material is supposed to use a Lambert illumination model to pick the colors for each vertex (and it does), and then use Gouraud shading to produce smooth gradients on each face.
The Gouraud part is not happening. Instead, the cube's faces are each shaded with one single, solid color.
I have tried various other BufferGeometrys, and gotten inconsistent results.
For example, if instead I make an IcosahedronBufferGeometry, I get the same problem: each face is one single, solid color.
geometry = new THREE.IcosahedronBufferGeometry(2, 0); // no Gouraud shading.
geometry = new THREE.IcosahedronBufferGeometry(2, 2); // no Gouraud shading.
On the other hand, if I make a SphereBufferGeometry, the Gouraud is present.
geometry = new THREE.SphereBufferGeometry(2, 3, 2); // yes Gouraud shading.
geometry = new THREE.SphereBufferGeometry(2, 16, 16); // yes Gouraud shading.
But then if I make a cube using a PolyhedronBufferGeometry, the Gouraud shading doesn't appear unless I set the detail to something other than 0.
const verticesOfCube = [
-1,-1,-1, 1,-1,-1, 1, 1,-1, -1, 1,-1,
-1,-1, 1, 1,-1, 1, 1, 1, 1, -1, 1, 1,
];
const indicesOfFaces = [
2,1,0, 0,3,2,
0,4,7, 7,3,0,
0,1,5, 5,4,0,
1,2,6, 6,5,1,
2,3,7, 7,6,2,
4,5,6, 6,7,4
];
const geometry = new THREE.PolyhedronBufferGeometry(verticesOfCube, indicesOfFaces, 1, 1); // no Gouraud shading
geometry = new THREE.PolyhedronBufferGeometry(verticesOfCube, indicesOfFaces, 1, 1); // yes Gouraud shading
I am aware of the existence of the BufferGeometry methods computeFaceNormals() and computeVertexNormals(). Normals are emphatically important here, as they are used to determine the colors for each face and vertice, respectively. But while they help with the Icosahedron, they have no effect on the Box, no matter whether they are present, only one is present, or both are present in both possible orders.
Here is the code I expect to work:
const geometry = new THREE.BoxBufferGeometry(2, 2, 2);
geometry.computeFaceNormals();
geometry.computeVertexNormals();
const material = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({
color: 0xBE6E37
});
const mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
I should be getting a cube whose faces (the real, triangular ones) are shaded with a gradient. First, the face normals should be computed, and then the vertex normals by averaging the normals of the faces formed by them. Here is a triangular bipyramid on which correct Gouraud shading is being applied:
But the code above produces this instead:
At no point does three.js log any errors or warnings to the console.
So what is it that's going on here? The only explanation I can think of is that the Box is actually comprised of 24 vertices, three at each corner of the cube, and that they form faces such that each vertex's computed normal is an average of at most two faces pointing in the same direction. But I can't find that written down anywhere, and that explanation doesn't fly for the Polyhedron where vertices and faces were explicitly specified in code.

THREE.js: Looking for an alternative to MeshFaceMaterial

According to various posts at the three.js github, MeshFaceMaterial will be deprecated eventually.
I currently use this for my terrain. Granted it's not the best way to do it. Actually its pretty crappy. For one I cannot use BufferGeometry which is not good considering I generally have 2 layers of 128x128 (segmented) planes for terrain. Very high memory usage.
I've adapted all my code to allow for the terrain to be BufferGeometry except two things don't work. MeshFaceMaterial and BufferGeometry.merge(). The merge doesn't work on indexed geometry which to me is weird considering THREE creates this geometry, yet it can merge non-indexed geometry from blender. It cannot merge geometry it creates itself but can merge geometry from external sources... Oh well that's another post there, back to MeshFaceMaterial.
I currently use a 128x128 "MaterialMap". Each pixel represents a materialIndex for each face of the plane. This has two serious drawbacks. Squared up sections of terrain (no curves) and harsh distinctions on the borders of textures.
My question is: How can I generate this terrain with multiple textures without using MeshFaceMaterial. The highest res texture I have is 2048x2048 and zone size can easily be 10000x10000 making repeat necessary (right?).
Ultimately my goal is to use BufferGeometry and get rid of MeshFaceMaterial.
MaterialMap example:
Terrain Example (terribly cropped sorry {work pc}):
You helped me out a while back via email with advice on culling meshes so I would like to return the favor (with my humble strategy) :)
If you want to use THREE.PlaneBufferGeometry (which, as you know, is where all geometry in THREE.js is soon headed), then my advice would be to layer different PlaneBufferGeometries right on top of each other. For instance in the above example picture, you could have
var stoneFloorGeometry = new THREE.PlaneBufferGeometry(arenaWidth, arenaHeight, 1, 1);
var stoneFloorMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
depthWrite: false, // This is always underneath every other object
map: stoneFloorTexture
});
var stoneFloor = new THREE.Mesh(stoneFloorGeometry, stoneFloorMaterial);
stoneFloor.rotation.x = Math.PI / -2; // rotate to be flat in the X-Z plane
stoneFloor.position.set(0, 0, 0);
scene.add(stoneFloor);
// now add the grass plane right on top of that with its own texture and shape
var grassGeometry = new THREE.PlaneBufferGeometry(lawnWidth, lawnHeight, 1, 1);
var grassMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
depthWrite: false, // this is rendered right on top of the stone floor
map: grassTexture
});
var grass = new THREE.Mesh(grassGeometry, grassMaterial);
grass.rotation.x = Math.PI / -2;
grass.position.set(0, 0, 0);
scene.add(grass);
// finally add the stone path walkway on top of the grass, leading to the castle
var walkwayGeometry = new THREE.PlaneBufferGeometry(walkwayWidth, walkwayHeight, 1, 1);
var walkwayMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
depthWrite: false, // this is rendered right on top of the grass
map: stoneFloorTexture // uses same texture as large stoneFloor before
});
var walkway = new THREE.Mesh(walkwayGeometry, walkwayMaterial);
walkway.rotation.x = Math.PI / -2;
walkway.position.set(0, 0, 0);
scene.add(walkway);
As long as you layer the level from bottom to top and disable depthWrite, all the various textures will correctly show up on top of each other, and none will Z-fight. So, stoneFloor is added to the scene first, followed by grass, followed by walkway.
And since depthTest is still active, your moving game characters will render on top of all these various textures. Initially, it also looked like it worked with just disabling 'depthTest', but the textures ended up rendering over ('above') the characters/models which is incorrect.
Eventually when THREE.js moves ShapeGeometry over to BufferGeometry, it would be nice to define an arbitrary polygonal shape (like an octagon or something) and then texture map that and lay down shapes on top of each other for the game level in a similar manner, thus avoiding the 'square' problem you mentioned.
As for this current solution, on the modern CPU/GPU I don't think you will see much performance cost in creating 3 PlaneBufferGeometries instead of 1 large one with multiple faces/indexes. This way you have the advantages of using THREE's BufferGeometry while still having everything 'looking' like it is all texture-mapped to one large plane.
Hope this helps!
-Erich (erichlof on GitHub)

Three.js orthographic camera overlapping objects shining through

In my scene I'm using an orthographic camera and a WebGLRenderer (new THREE.WebGLRenderer({ antialias: true, preserveDrawingBuffer: true })). Two spheres are created by this code:
new THREE.Mesh(
new THREE.SphereGeometry(1, 64, 64),
new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({ color: 0xffffff })
)
I shifted them away from each other with another code snippet, and for some reason they shine through each other, as marked in the picture even though they have the same size and the same location except from one axis.
Does anyone know why this is the case and how I can fix it?
Your orthogarphic camera parameters are in the wrong order. Do this:
camera = new THREE.OrthographicCamera( -5, 5, 5, -5, 1, 11 );
camea.position.set( 0, 0, 6 );
Also, your near parameter should be positive, as it is a distance in front of the camera.
The camera is looking down the negative z-axis. In your case, do not rotate it.
three.js r.68

Automatically keep texture's ratio and texture's size when repeating

I'm using three.js to build a house, i have walls and textures for walls.
Walls are basically CubeGeometry.
I took a unique scale : 1cm = 1px
textures could be bricks or any other construction materials, but textures files are always 512x512 with details in it. for example : One brick in the texture file will be 10px per 4px.
I need to keep this ratio to keep the reality of the scene.
var texture = THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture("images/wall.jpg");
texture.wrapS = THREE.RepeatWrapping;
texture.wrapT = THREE.RepeatWrapping;
texture.repeat = new THREE.Vector2(0.2 , 0.2);
var wall = new THREE.Mesh(new THREE.CubeGeometry(100, 100, 10), new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({ map: texture }));
that's works quite well because the case is simple ;), it is also very simple to made a ratio for every walls (which can have any sort of sizes)
But in fact i have plenty of other geometries (procedurally generated and so on), is there by any chance a property like : "THREE.KeepMyTextureSizeAndRepeat" wrapping ? Or will i need to make ratios for each of my custom geometries ?
If you have any advice on this use case, i will be greatfull :)
Many thanks
EDIT : the final goal is to do something like "patterns" in 2D canvas
var pattern = context.createPattern(imageObj, repeatOption);
context.fillStyle = pattern;
context.fill();
when you do something like that, on a rect for example the pattern will be repeated keeping the aspect ratio (e.g http://www.html5canvastutorials.com/tutorials/html5-canvas-patterns-tutorial/)
you'll have to calculate every ratio by yourself because a texture doesn't know anything about the pixels. It only knows about the uvs.

Rotate a plane on its edge in three.js

I wanted to rotate a plane, but I can't figure out how to set the rotation axis. I'd like to rotate a plane around its edge.
I've seen solutions suggesting matrix transformations but they lacked explanation so I couldn't apply them.
Ok I figured it out. What you have to do is create a parent 3D object and add the plane to it. Once, added, you have to translate it by 50% and start rotating the parent object.
var object = THREE.SceneUtils.createMultiMaterialObject( new THREE.PlaneGeometry( 200, 50, 4, 4 ), [material] );
var parent = new THREE.Object3D();
object.applyMatrix( new THREE.Matrix4().makeTranslation( 0, 25, 0 ) );
parent.add(object);
parent.rotation.x = 1;
scene.add(parent)

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