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Today I came across a question on stackoverflow asking how to make round particles in Three.js (Three.js - give particles round form). I have seen questions like this a few times and the answers always seem to be to load an image and use it as a texture. People seem to forget that you can use a canvas as a texture map and you can draw pretty much what ever you want on a canvas. I have demonstrated.....
Recently while experimenting with three.js shader materials I stumbled across RenderMonkey. It is old software that is no longer supported and the description on the website says: "RenderMonkey is a rich shader development environment for both programmers and artists that facilitates the collaborative creation of real-time shader effects." As I was going through the different shader examples that.....
When playing around and experimenting with Three.js ShaderMaterial I often want to take a look at how the standard Three.js materials are done. Looking through the code or constantly outputting the shaders in the javascript console is a pain in the arse. I though I would post them here for future reference and in case anyone else was interested. NOTE: These were output from Three.js version 70.....
Lately when using Three.js I have needed some very specific material qualities that the built in Three.js materials did not allow for so I have started experimenting with the Three.ShaderMaterial. This material allows you to write you own GLSL shaders for Three.js. My hope is that I can get a good understanding of GLSL and implement some of my own shaders and materials in Three.js even with my.....
Using Three.js in a fiddle on the site jsfiddle.net is really quite easy but I keep coming across people having trouble with it. So here are a couple of tips when trying to set up a Three.js scene in a fiddleIncluding the Three.js sourceWhen creating a fiddle to use Three.js the most important part is including the Three.js library itself. You can select to include Three.js from the "Framework and.....
Here is a list of useful Three.js links, mainly for my own reference but other may find it useful too. Three.js homepage Three.js documentation Three.js Google+ Tutorials Intro to WegGL with Three.js Articles The Hobbit Experience - a Good article to read up on three.js performance optimisations Demos Three.js examples stemkoski.github.io callumprentice.github.io/