Starting with a simple mesh

In this section, we'll look at a few simple materials: MeshBasicMaterial, MeshDepthMaterial, and  MeshNormalMaterial. We start with MeshBasicMaterial.

Before we look into the properties of these materials, here's a quick note on how you can pass in properties to configure the materials. There are two options:

• You can pass in the arguments in the constructor as a parameters object,
  like this:

var material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( 
{ 
  color: 0xff0000, name: 'material-1', opacity: 0.5, 
     transparency: true, ... 
}); 

• Alternatively, you can also create an instance and set the properties individually, like this:

var material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial(); 
material.color = new THREE.Color(0xff0000); 
material.name = 'material-1'; 
material.opacity = 0.5; 
material.transparency = true; 

Usually, the...