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Learn Three.js

You're reading from   Learn Three.js Programming 3D animations and visualizations for the web with HTML5 and WebGL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833288
Length 528 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Jos Dirksen Jos Dirksen
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Your First 3D Scene with Three.js FREE CHAPTER 2. The Basic Components that Make Up a Three.js Application 3. Working with Light Sources in Three.js 4. Working with Three.js Materials 5. Learning to Work with Geometries 6. Advanced Geometries and Binary Operations 7. Points and Sprites 8. Creating and Loading Advanced Meshes and Geometries 9. Animations and Moving the Camera 10. Loading and Working with Textures 11. Render Postprocessing 12. Adding Physics and Sounds to Your Scene 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a basic Three.js scene with physics

Setting up a Three.js scene for Physijs is very simple and only takes a couple of steps. The first thing we need to do is include the correct JavaScript file, which you can get from the GitHub repository at http://chandlerprall.github.io/Physijs/. Add the Physijs library to your HTML page like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="../libs/physi.js"></script> 
We've also included the necessary libraries in the sources of this book. Note that there is a bug in the Physijs code, which causes issues when using the point constraint. The Physijs library provided with the book contains a patch to make the code work correctly even with this specific constraint.

Simulating a scene is rather processor-intensive. If we run all the simulation computations on the render thread (since JavaScript...

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