Geometry intersection converting from direct geometry to buffergeometry - three.js

Question

I am using Three.js. Found a really good Decal library written by Benpurdy. It's very easily modifiable and also used the techniques described here
However, the technique uses Geometry. The project I am on, uses BufferGeometry. I traced the code which does the geometry intersects and can't figure out the conversion from faces and vertices to attributes.
this.createGeometry = function(matrix, mesh) {
var geom = mesh.geometry;
var decalGeometry = new THREE.Geometry();
var projectorInverse = matrix.clone().getInverse(matrix);
var meshInverse = mesh.matrixWorld.clone().getInverse(mesh.matrixWorld);
var faces = [];
for(var i = 0; i < geom.faces.length; i++){
var verts = [geom.faces[i].a, geom.faces[i].b, geom.faces[i].c];
var pts = [];
var valid = false;
for(var v = 0; v < 3; v++) {
var vec = geom.vertices[verts[v]].clone();
vec.applyMatrix4(mesh.matrixWorld);
vec.applyMatrix4(matrix);
if((vec.z > 1) || (vec.z < -1) || (vec.x > 1) || (vec.x < -1) || (vec.y > 1) || (vec.y < -1)) {
} else {
valid = true;
}
pts.push(vec);
}
if(valid) {
var uv = [];
for(var n = 0; n < 3; n++){
uv.push(new THREE.Vector2( (pts[n].x + 1) / 2, (pts[n].y + 1) / 2));
pts[n].applyMatrix4(projectorInverse);
pts[n].applyMatrix4(meshInverse);
decalGeometry.vertices.push( pts[n] );
}
// update UV's
decalGeometry.faceVertexUvs[0].push(uv);
var newFace = geom.faces[i].clone();
newFace.a = decalGeometry.vertices.length - 3;
newFace.b = decalGeometry.vertices.length - 2;
newFace.c = decalGeometry.vertices.length - 1;
decalGeometry.faces.push(newFace);
}
}
return decalGeometry;
}
Appreciate if anyone could shed some light on how to go about pursuing this? Thanks.

Answer 1

I ended up solving the problem by writing another function to compute intersections with buffergeometry. Took me a while trying to understand the original buffer geometry code.
this.createGeometryFromBufferGeometry = function(matrix, mesh) {
var geom = mesh.geometry;
var decalGeometry = new THREE.Geometry();
var projectorInverse = matrix.clone().getInverse(matrix);
var meshInverse = mesh.matrixWorld.clone().getInverse(mesh.matrixWorld);
var faces = [];
for(var i = 0; i < geom.attributes.position.array.length; i+=9){
var pts = [];
var valid = false;
for(var v = 0; v < 9; v+=3) {
var vec = new THREE.Vector3(geom.attributes.position.array[i+v],geom.attributes.position.array[i+v+1],geom.attributes.position.array[i+v+2]);
console.log((i+v) + " " + (i+v+1) + " " + (i+v+2) );
console.log(vec);
vec.applyMatrix4(mesh.matrixWorld);
vec.applyMatrix4(matrix);
if((vec.z > 1) || (vec.z < -1) || (vec.x > 1) || (vec.x < -1) || (vec.y > 1) || (vec.y < -1)) {
} else {
valid = true;
}
pts.push(vec);
}
if(valid) {
var uv = [];
for(var n = 0; n < 3; n++){
uv.push(new THREE.Vector2( (pts[n].x + 1) / 2, (pts[n].y + 1) / 2));
pts[n].applyMatrix4(projectorInverse);
pts[n].applyMatrix4(meshInverse);
decalGeometry.vertices.push( pts[n] );
}
decalGeometry.faceVertexUvs[0].push(uv);
var newFace = new THREE.Face3()
newFace.a = decalGeometry.vertices.length - 3;
newFace.b = decalGeometry.vertices.length - 2;
newFace.c = decalGeometry.vertices.length - 1;
decalGeometry.faces.push(newFace);
}
}
return decalGeometry;
}

Answer 2

BufferGeometry() has a method .fromGeometry(). Populates this BufferGeometry with data from a Geometry object.
var geom = new THREE.BoxGeometry(1,1,1);
var bufGeom = new THREE.BufferGeometry().fromGeometry(geom);
UPD. You can use the other way round.
var bufGeom = new THREE.BoxBufferGeometry(1,1,1);
var geom = new THREE.Geometry().fromBufferGeometry(bufGeom);

Answer 3

Quick and dirty solution is to create geometry from bufferGeometry and after calculating dispose created geometry
this.compute = function()
{
this.geometry = mesh.geometry
if(this.geometry.attributes)
{
this.geometry = new THREE.Geometry().fromBufferGeometry(this.geometry);
this.computeDecal();
this.geometry.dispose();
}
else
{
this.computeDecal();
}
}