I am trying to scale an object with dashed lines, but want the dash distances to stay the same.
Orange Box should have proper dash distances
var geometryCube = cube(3);
geometryCube.computeLineDistances();
var object = new THREE.LineSegments(geometryCube, new THREE.LineDashedMaterial({ color: 0xffaa00, dashSize: 3, gapSize: 1, linewidth: 2 }));
object.scale.multiplyScalar(10);
geometryCube.computeLineDistances();
self.bbox.geometry.lineDistancesNeedUpdate = true;
self.scene.add(object);
neither geometryCube.computeLineDistances(); helps nor self.bbox.geometry.lineDistancesNeedUpdate = true;.
does dashsize: .3 not work? or dashsize: 30 gapsize: 20 etc?
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EDIT: I solved my problem and this is what is was for. It now uses raw webgl and two triangles for each rectangle.
I'm a seasoned developer, but know next to nothing about 3d development.
I need to animate a million small rectangles where I set the coordinates in Javascript (rather than through a shader). (EDIT: It's a 2D job and I'm looking at webgl for performance reasons only.) I tweaked an existing threejs sample that uses "Points" to modify the coordinates in a BufferGeometry via Javascript and that performs really well, even with a million points.
The three.js concept of "Points", however, is a bit weird in that it appears they have to be squares - my rectangles can't be quite squares though, and they are of slightly different dimensions each.
I can think of a couple of workarounds, such as having foreground-colored squares partially overlap with squares of a background-color, thereby molding them into the correct rectangle. That's quite hacky though.
Another possibility would be to not do it with points but rather with proper triangles; but then I need to set 12 values from Javascript (2 triangles, 3 edges, 2 dimensions) rather than just the needed 4 (x, y, width, height). I suppose that could be improved with a vertex shader somehow, but that will be tricky for a noob like me.
I'm looking for some suggestions or, alternatively, a sample on how to set a large number of vertex coordinates from Javascript in threejs (the existing samples all appear to assume that manipulation is done in shaders, but that doesn't work so well for my use case).
EDIT - Here's a picture of how the rectangles could be laid out:
The rectangle's top and bottom edges are arbitrary, but they are organized into columns of arbitrary widths.
The rectangles of each column all have the same, uniform color.
Just an option with canvas and .map:
var scene = new THREE.Scene();
var camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(60, innerWidth / innerHeight, 1, 1000);
camera.position.set(0, 0, 10);
camera.lookAt(scene.position);
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setSize(innerWidth, innerHeight);
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
var gh = new THREE.GridHelper(10, 10, "black", "black");
gh.rotation.x = Math.PI * 0.5;
gh.position.z = 0.01;
scene.add(gh);
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
var map = new THREE.CanvasTexture(canvas);
canvas.width = 512;
canvas.height = 512;
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.fillStyle = "gray";
ctx.fillRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
function drawRectangle(x, y, width, height, color) {
let xUnit = canvas.width / 10;
let yUnit = canvas.height / 10;
let x_ = x * xUnit;
let y_ = y * yUnit;
let w_ = width * xUnit;
let h_ = height * yUnit;
ctx.fillStyle = color;
ctx.fillRect(x_, y_, w_, h_);
map.needsUpdate = true;
}
drawRectangle(1, 1, 4, 3, "aqua");
drawRectangle(0, 6, 6, 3, "magenta");
drawRectangle(3, 2, 6, 6, "yellow");
var plane = new THREE.Mesh(new THREE.PlaneBufferGeometry(10, 10), new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
color: "white",
map: map
}));
scene.add(plane);
renderer.setAnimationLoop(() => {
renderer.render(scene, camera);
});
body {
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0;
}
<script src="https://threejs.org/build/three.min.js"></script>
Read the source for these samples:
https://threejs.org/examples/?q=buffer#webgl_buffergeometry_custom_attributes_particles
https://threejs.org/examples/?q=buffer#webgl_buffergeometry_instancing
https://threejs.org/examples/?q=buffer#webgl_buffergeometry_instancing_billboards
https://threejs.org/examples/?q=buffer#webgl_buffergeometry_points
Using Three.JS, what is the easiest way to make an n-sided geometry with an arbitray number of equal sized faces?
For example you can make a cube using the BoxGeometry, and a octahedron using the OctahedronGeometry, but what about everything in between?
The 5 Platonic Solids can be rendered like so:
var geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry( 10, 10, 10 );
var geometry = new THREE.TetrahedronGeometry( 10, 0 );
var geometry = new THREE.OctahedronGeometry( 10, 0 );
var geometry = new THREE.IcosahedronGeometry( 10, 0 );
var geometry = new THREE.DodecahedronGeometry( 10, 0 );
There is also the BufferGeometry version of these 5 classes.
For the material, use shading: THREE.FlatShading for the best look.
three.js r.85
So lets say theres a cube with 2 materials.I'm using MultiMaterial but maybe thats not the correct approach because its showing 6 draw calls instead of 2. I'm worried about performance when it scales up.
http://codepen.io/glued/pen/JXmvzm
This is just an example, I know about FaceColors but would like to mix a meshBasicMaterial with another Material, say, with a texture.
var greenMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({ color: 0xc4f288 })
var orangeMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({ color: 0xf4511e })
var mats = [
orangeMaterial,
greenMaterial,
orangeMaterial,
orangeMaterial,
greenMaterial,
orangeMaterial
]
let box = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, new THREE.MultiMaterial( mats ))
If i used vertexColors: FaceColors and a texture:
new MeshBasicMaterial({ vertexColors: FaceColors, map:someTexture }))
how would i designate the texture for a specific face only?
I figured it out by creating a material with a texture and removing the UVs on the geometry faces that i'm not using
the texture is 128x256, See the codepen as i'm using a 2d canvas to generate
texture.repeat.y = 0.5
texture.offset.y = 0.5
let geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(50, 50, 50)
function assignUvAndColor(geo, i, color = 0x00cbff){
geo.faceVertexUvs[0][i] = new Array(3).fill(new THREE.Vector2(0, -1))
geo.faces[i].color.setHex(color)
}
const greenColor = 0xacffd3
assignUvAndColor(geometry, 3, greenColor)
assignUvAndColor(geometry, 2, greenColor)
assignUvAndColor(geometry, 0, greenColor)
assignUvAndColor(geometry, 1, greenColor)
assignUvAndColor(geometry, 4)
assignUvAndColor(geometry, 5)
assignUvAndColor(geometry, 6)
assignUvAndColor(geometry, 7)
let material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({ map: texture, vertexColors: THREE.FaceColors })
let box = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material)
http://codepen.io/glued/pen/grBEmo?editors=0010
multimaterial will always do N drawcalls where N = length of its material array
(see renderer implementation)
it does not even try to check whether some of its materials are duplicite in reference - so in your examples you have multimaterial with 6 materials = 6 drawcalls
you will have to change the geometry face material index or abandon using multimaterial and divide your geometry manually
(Please also refer to my illustration of the problem: http://i.stack.imgur.com/SfwwP.png)
problem description and ideas
I am creating several objects in the standard XYZ coordinate system.
Those are added to a THREE.group.
Please think of the group as a wall with several frames and image hung on it.
I want to create my frame objects with eg. dimension of (40, 20, 0.5). So I get a rather flat landscape formatted frame/artwork. I create and place several of those. Then I add them to the group, which I wanted to freely rotate in the world along two vectors start and end.
The problem I am struggling with is how to rotate and position the group from a given vector start to a give vector end.
So far I tried to solve it with a THREE.Matrix4().lookAt :
var group = new THREE.Group();
startVec = new THREE.Vector3( 100, 0, -100 );
endVec = new THREE.Vector3( -200, 0, 200 );
matrix = new THREE.Matrix4().lookAt(startVec, endVec, new THREE.Vector3( 0, 1, 0 ));
group.matrixAutoUpdate = false;
var object1 = new THREE.Mesh(new THREE.BoxGeometry(0.5, 20, 40), mat);
// etc. -> notice the swapping of X and Z coordinates I have to do.
group.add(object1);
group.applyMatrix(matrix);
You can see the example on jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/y6b9Lumw/1/
If you open jsfiddle, you can see that the objects are not placed along the line from start to end, although I their are placed along the groups internal X-Axis like: addBox(new THREE.Vector3( i * 30, 0 , 0 ));
Full code:
<html>
<head>
<title>testing a rotation matrix</title>
<style>body { margin: 0; } canvas { width: 100%; height: 100% } </style>
</head> <body>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/three.js/r70/three.min.js"></script>
<script>
var scene, camera, renderer, light, matrix;
var startVec, endVec;
var boxes;
function addBox(v) {
var boxmesh;
var boxgeom = new THREE.BoxGeometry( 15, 5, 1 );
var boxmaterial = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial( {color: 0xdd2222} );
boxmesh = new THREE.Mesh( boxgeom, boxmaterial );
//boxmesh.matrix.makeRotationY(Math.PI / 2);
boxmesh.matrix.setPosition(v);
boxmesh.matrixAutoUpdate = false;
boxes.add(boxmesh);
}
function init() {
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setClearColor( 0x222222 );
renderer.setPixelRatio( window.devicePixelRatio );
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
document.body.appendChild( renderer.domElement );
scene = new THREE.Scene();
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 45, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 1, 1000 );
camera.position.set( -20, 30, 300 );
var light = new THREE.PointLight (0xCCCCCC, 0.5 );
scene.add(light);
startVec = new THREE.Vector3( 100, 0, -100 );
endVec = new THREE.Vector3( -200, 0, 200 );
matrix = new THREE.Matrix4().lookAt(startVec, endVec, new THREE.Vector3( 0, 1, 0 ));
boxes = new THREE.Group();
for (var i = -100; i < 100; i++) {
addBox(new THREE.Vector3( i * 30, 0 , 0 ));
}
boxes.matrixAutoUpdate = false;
boxes.applyMatrix(matrix);
scene.add(boxes);
var linegeometry = new THREE.Geometry();
linegeometry.vertices.push( startVec, endVec);
var line = new THREE.Line(linegeometry, new THREE.LineBasicMaterial({color: 0x33eeef}));
scene.add(line);
render();
}
function render(){
requestAnimationFrame(render);
renderer.render(scene, camera);
}
init();
</script>
</body> </html>
This works only nicely to some extend. As the look vector is usually oriented along the Z-Axis (i think it is (0,0,1)). So unfortunately the objects inside the group get rotated like that aswell.
This is actually what you would expect from a lookAt() rotational transformation. It's not what I would like to have though, as this places all the children in the group, on their Z-Axis, instead of their X-Axis.
In order to have things look properly I had to initialize my groups children with X and Z swapped.
Instead of:
var object1 = new THREE.BoxGeometry( 40, 20, 0.5 );
I have to do:
var object1 = new THREE.BoxGeometry( 0.5, 20, 40 );
same if I want to translate objects in the group on the X-Axis, I have to use the Z-Axis, as that is the look-vector along which the whole wall is oriented by the matrix transformation.
my question is:
How does my matrix have to be constructed/look like to accomplish what I want: Normally create objects, and then have their X-Axis placed along vector start and vector end, like placing artworks on a wall, which can be moved around?
I thought about creating a matrix, whose X-Axis is end.sub(start), so the vector from start end end, might this be what I need to do? If so, how would I construct it?
problem illustration with an image
I tried to illustrate my sitation in two images. One being the wall, one being the wall inside the world, with the same objects attached to the wall (see top of the post).
In the first figure you see the local coordinate system of the group, with two added children, one translated along X.
In the second figure, you can see the same localsystem inside the world how I would like it to be. The green axes are the world axes. The start and end vectors are shown aswell. You can see, both boxes, are properly placed along that line.
I would like to answer my own question by disregarding the idea of manipulating the matrix myself. Thx to #WestLangley I adapted my idea to the following by setting the groups quaternion via .setFromUnitVectors.
So the rotation is derived from the rotation from the x-axis to the direction vector of start and end, as explained in three.js' documentation:
"Sets this quaternion to the rotation required to rotate direction vector vFrom to direction vector vTo."
(http://threejs.org/docs/#Reference/Math/Quaternion.setFromUnitVectors)
Below is the relevant part of my solution:
// define the starting and ending vector of the wall
start = new THREE.Vector3( -130, -40, 300 );
end = new THREE.Vector3( 60, 20, -100 );
// dir is the direction from start to end, normalized
var dir = new THREE.Vector3().copy(end).sub(start).normalize();
// position wall in the middle of start and end
var middle = new THREE.Vector3().copy(start).lerp(end, 0.5);
wall.position.copy(middle);
// rotate wall by applying rotation from X-Axis to dir
wall.quaternion.setFromUnitVectors( new THREE.Vector3(1, 0, 0), dir );
The result can be seen here: http://jsfiddle.net/L9dmqqvy/1/
I have a cube of size 1 x 1 x 2. On the larger (1 x 2) face, I would like to show one color on half of the face, and another color on the other half. What would the recommended way of implementing this? Should I use hierarchy to build this 1 x 1 x 2 cube using two 1 x 1 x 1 cubes of different face color?
Here is the pattern to follow. Adjust to your liking:
var geometry = new THREE.CubeGeometry( 10, 10, 20, 1, 1, 2 );
for ( var i = 0; i < geometry.faces.length; i ++ ) {
geometry.faces[ i ].color.setHSL( Math.random(), 0.5, 0.5 ); // pick your colors
}
var material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { vertexColors: THREE.FaceColors } );
var mesh = new THREE.Mesh( geometry, material );
If you are using CanvasRenderer, you can set material.overdraw = 0.5 to try to eliminate the diagonal lines. This is not required for WebGLRenderer.
three.js r.60