So I'm working on a ThreeJS WebVR Page. (I'm quite new to three.js)
So I tired to make a basic scene to test some stuff. But when I load the page with renderer.setAnimationLoop(render) I get my green cube for 1 Frame and then it disappears.
(I got it working with requestAnimationFrame() but this will not work with WebVR)
This is my code for my test sandbox:
var scene = new THREE.Scene();
var camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(75, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.01, 10);
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({
antialias: true
});
renderer.setPixelRatio(window.devicePixelRatio);
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
renderer.vr.enabled = true;
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
var geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(1, 1, 1);
var material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
color: 0x00ff00
});
var cube = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
scene.add(cube);
camera.position.z = 5;
function render() {
cube.rotation.x += 0.01;
cube.rotation.y += 0.01;
renderer.render(scene, camera);
}
function animate() {
renderer.setAnimationLoop(render);
}
animate();
//Button vor start VR Session
document.body.appendChild(WEBVR.createButton(renderer));
Not the problem with setAnimationLoop
The problem is you cannot set camera position when vr is enabled
check this stack overflow question
Unable to change camera position when using VRControls
Check this CodePen Link where i fixed your code by changing position of cube instead of camera
var cube = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
cube.position.z = -5; //added this instead of camera.position.z = 5;
if you want to move the camera you need make it as child of another object and set the position to that object
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I have looked through stack overflow and google and I have found how to CENTER a text geometry but that is not what I want to do.
I have a scene that just has a block of text that says "Buy Here!". Using the documentation in the three.js website and examples here I was able to do that after some struggling. I had some trouble finding out how to refer to that mesh since I had created the geometry inside a function, and it took hours for me to know about setting a name for it as a string so it can be accessible from different parent/child levels.
What I am NOT able to do now is to offset the text by some arbitrary number of units. I tried shifting it down by 5 units. No matter how I try to do it it isn't working. I either manage to make the text geometry disappear OR my whole scene is black.
Here is my code...
I have the basic scene setup working properly and I'll include it here but feel free to skip since I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with the issue...
import './style.css'
import * as THREE from 'three';
import { OrbitControls } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/three#0.117.0/examples/jsm/controls/OrbitControls.js';
import TWEEN from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/#tweenjs/tween.js#18.5.0/dist/tween.esm.js';
//BASIC SCENE SETUP
const scene = new THREE.Scene();
const camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(75, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.1, 1000);
const renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({ antialias: true });
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
renderer.setPixelRatio(window.devicePixelRatio);
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
//LIGHTS (POINT AND AMBIENT)
const pointLight = new THREE.PointLight(0xFFFFFF);
pointLight.position.set(5, 5, 5);
const ambientLight = new THREE.AmbientLight(0xFFFFFF);
scene.add(pointLight, ambientLight);
//RESIZE WINDOW
window.addEventListener('resize', () => {
camera.aspect = window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight;
camera.updateProjectionMatrix();
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
render();
}, false);
//ORBIT CONTROLS
const controls = new OrbitControls(camera, renderer.domElement);
controls.minDistance = 5;
controls.maxDistance = 70;
controls.enablePan = false;
controls.enableRotate = false;
controls.enableZoom = false;
controls.target.set(0,0,-1);
camera.position.setZ(25);
window.addEventListener("click", (event) => {
onClick(event);
})
window.addEventListener("mousemove", onMouseMove);
var animate = function() {
requestAnimationFrame(animate);
controls.update();
render();
TWEEN.update();
};
function render() {
renderer.render(scene, camera);
}
animate();
and here is my code for the text object....
var loaderF = new THREE.FontLoader();
loaderF.load( 'https://threejs.org/examples/fonts/optimer_regular.typeface.json', function ( font ) {
var geometry = new THREE.TextGeometry( 'Buy Here!', {
font: font,
size: 2.3,
height: 0.1,
curveSegments: 15,
bevelEnabled: true,
bevelThickness: 0.5,
bevelSize: 0.31,
bevelSegments: 7
} );
geometry.center();
var material = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({color: 0x686868});
var mesh = new THREE.Mesh( geometry, material );
mesh.name = "bhText"
scene.add( mesh );
mesh.userData = { URL: "http://google.com"};
} );
Here's what I have tried.....
under "var geometry ({...});" I typed....
geometry.position.setX(-5);
but the text object disappears completely so I tried
geometry.position.setX = -5;
but there was no difference so i tried taking out
geometry.center();
but it had the same results.
So then I tried using
mesh.position.x = -5;
with AND without
geometry.center();
but again, they all just make my text object disappear.
So now I tried to set the position from outside the function by typing the following code OUTSIDE of everything that is contained in
loaderF.load ('https.....', function (font){var geometry = .....})
using the reference I learned....
scene.getObjectByName("bhText").position.x(-5);
but this makes my entire scene go blank (black). So I tried variations of like
scene.getObjectByName("bhText").position.x = -5;
scene.getObjectByName("bhText").position.setX(-5);
scene.getObjectByName("bhText").position.setX = -5;
mesh.position.setX = -5;// I was pretty sure this wasn't going to work since I wasn't
//using the mesh name specifically for when it's inside something
//I can't reach because of parent-child relations
and again trying each of those with AND without
geometry.center();
but they all made my scene go black.
I just wanna move it down a couple of units. Sheesh.
Could anyone be kind enough to tell me WHERE in my code I can set the position of the text geometry? Thank you please.
I just wanna move it down a couple of units.
In this case use mesh.position.y = - 5;. Changing the x coordinate will move the mesh to the left or right. Here is a complete live example based on your code:
const scene = new THREE.Scene();
const camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(75, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.1, 1000);
camera.position.set( 0, 0, 10 );
const renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({
antialias: true
});
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
renderer.setPixelRatio(window.devicePixelRatio);
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
const pointLight = new THREE.PointLight(0xFFFFFF);
pointLight.position.set(5, 5, 5);
const ambientLight = new THREE.AmbientLight(0xFFFFFF);
scene.add(pointLight, ambientLight);
const loader = new THREE.FontLoader();
loader.load('https://threejs.org/examples/fonts/optimer_regular.typeface.json', function(font) {
const geometry = new THREE.TextGeometry('Buy Here!', {
font: font,
size: 2,
height: 0.5
});
geometry.center();
const material = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({
color: 0x686868
});
const mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
mesh.position.y = - 1; // FIX
mesh.name = "bhText"
scene.add(mesh);
renderer.render(scene, camera);
});
body {
margin: 0;
}
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/three#0.130.1/build/three.min.js"></script>
I have to draw letters using 3JS.
Previously I have drawed objects in Canvas with beziercurves, using a website that helped do them with the mouse.
Is there such a tool for the same job in 3JS?
I can't seem to find anything. And drawing them manually in code just seems a waste of time.
I've searched everywhere for it but nothing.
I'm using Spline Curves btw...
curve = new THREE.SplineCurve( [
new THREE.Vector2( -90, 50),
new THREE.Vector2( -150, 0),
new THREE.Vector2( -130, 50),
]);
Thanks in advance
https://threejs.org/docs/#manual/en/introduction/Creating-text
Gives different ways to draw text.
You can use TextGeometry:
var camera, scene, renderer;
init();
animate();
function init() {
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(70, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight);
camera.position.z = 10;
scene = new THREE.Scene();
var loader = new THREE.FontLoader();
loader.load('https://unpkg.com/three#0.77.0/examples/fonts/helvetiker_regular.typeface.json', function(font) {
var geometry = new THREE.TextGeometry('Hello World', {
font: font,
size: 1,
height: 1
});
geometry.center();
var material = new THREE.MeshNormalMaterial();
var mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
scene.add(mesh);
});
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({
antialias: true
});
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
}
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame(animate);
renderer.render(scene, camera);
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/three.js/r99/three.js" integrity="sha256-QlZjRhqOlDukXFfprbpsdrDQws7TtQdTGDh7F7Q3310=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
I am trying to just copy the example three.js page into my own small website with a canvas where the 3d animation should be added to. But it just shows nothing even though it shows no errors.
I tried figuring it out by myself but nothing seems to work :(
i have my canvas element in one div on the page:
var canvas = document.getElementById("background");
var scene = new THREE.Scene();
var camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(75, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.1, 1000);
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.canvas = canvas;
renderer.setSize(canvas.innerWidth, canvas.innerHeight);
var geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(1, 1, 1);
var material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
color: 0x00ff00
});
var cube = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
scene.add(cube);
camera.position.z = 5;
var animate = function() {
requestAnimationFrame(animate);
cube.rotation.x += 0.01;
cube.rotation.y += 0.01;
renderer.render(scene, camera);
};
animate();
#background {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
<script src = "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/three.js/r83/three.min.js"></script>
<canvas id='background'></canvas>
Can you please take a look and show me what i did wrong?
Unless there is a reason for trying to create your own canvas, you can just let three.js produce its own with the following code:
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
document.body.appendChild( renderer.domElement );
With this it creates a new element sets the height and width to match the window and then adds it to the html.
To alter the style further you should use
renderer.domElement.style.attribute = "";
and then you just replace attribute with whatever you are trying to modify.
For more examples you can visit this link:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Object_Model/Using_dynamic_styling_information
I'm pretty beginner in three.js and webgl programming. so I have created a box in three.js and its working fine but the problem is when I set camera position in z axis(eg: camera.position.z = 2; ) the box just disappears. could anyone explain me why is it happening and how can I properly set the position of the camera?
try uncommenting the camera.position.z = 2; in the fiddle
function init() {
var scene = new THREE.Scene();
var box = getBox(1, 1, 1);
scene.add(box);
var camera = new THREE.Camera(45, window.innerWidth/window.innerHeight, 1, 1000 );
//camera.position.z = 2;
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
document.getElementById("webgl").appendChild(renderer.domElement);
renderer.render(scene, camera);
}
function getBox(w, h, d) {
var geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(w, h, d);
var material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
color : 0x00ff00
});
var mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
return mesh;
}
init();
not sure if you're trying to create this scene with an orthographic camera or perspective camera, but you'll typically need to specify the camera by type (ie THREE.PerspectiveCamera(...)).
I also added a few extra lines to ensure the camera was configured correctly, namely, setting the "LookAt" point to (0,0,0) , as well as setting an actual position of the camera via the THREE.Vector3.set(...) method.
Here are my adjustments to your code:
function init() {
var scene = new THREE.Scene();
var box = getBox(1, 1, 1);
scene.add(box);
var camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(70,
window.innerWidth/window.innerHeight, 0.1, 1000 ); // Specify camera type like this
camera.position.set(0,2.5,2.5); // Set position like this
camera.lookAt(new THREE.Vector3(0,0,0)); // Set look at coordinate like this
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
document.getElementById("webgl").appendChild(renderer.domElement);
renderer.render(scene, camera);
}
function getBox(w, h, d) {
var geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(w, h, d);
var material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
color : 0x00ff00
});
var mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
return mesh;
}
init();
Try
camera.position.set( <X> , <Y> , <Z> );
where <X> and <Z> are 2D coordinates and <Y> is height
When using three.js, I found a conflict between dat.gui.js and trackballControl.js. For example, after changing values by dat.gui, I can't rotate the camera with mousemove because the mouse can not move out from the area of GUI. Why and how to deal with it?
The trackballControls constructor allows for a second argument of a dom element.
This dom element is what the mouse event listeners for the controls will be added to. If you don't supply this argument, the mouse event listeners will be added to the document (which I believe is your problem).
It is hard to give you an example which will work for you, because you have not posted your code.
You should be able to send the renderer dom element to the trackballControls to fix your problem.
eg.
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(70, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 1, 1000);
// send dom element to trackballControlls.
controls = new THREE.TrackballControls( camera, renderer.domElement );
Run snippet below for working example.
var camera, scene, renderer, mesh, material, controls, gui, directionalLight;
init();
render();
animate();
function init() {
// Renderer.
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
//renderer.setPixelRatio(window.devicePixelRatio);
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
// Add renderer to page
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
// Create camera.
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(70, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 1, 1000);
camera.position.z = 400;
// Add TrackballControls, sending dom element to attach mouseevent listeners to.
controls = new THREE.TrackballControls(camera, renderer.domElement);
controls.addEventListener( 'change', render );
// Create scene.
scene = new THREE.Scene();
// Create material
material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial();
// Create cube and add to scene.
var geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(200, 200, 200);
mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
scene.add(mesh);
// Create ambient light and add to scene.
var light = new THREE.AmbientLight(0x404040); // soft white light
scene.add(light);
// Create directional light and add to scene.
directionalLight = new THREE.DirectionalLight(0xffffff);
directionalLight.position.set(1, 1, 1).normalize();
scene.add(directionalLight);
// Add listener for window resize.
window.addEventListener('resize', onWindowResize, false);
// Add GUI
var gui = new dat.GUI();
var lightFolder = gui.addFolder('Light');
lightFolder.add(directionalLight, 'intensity').onChange(function(){render()});
lightFolder.open();
}
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame(animate);
controls.update();
}
// Only called by controls change or gui change.
function render() {
renderer.render(scene, camera);
}
function onWindowResize() {
camera.aspect = window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight;
camera.updateProjectionMatrix();
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
controls.handleResize();
}
body {
margin: 0px;
}
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/dataarts/dat.gui/v0.6.2/build/dat.gui.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://rawgit.com/mrdoob/three.js/master/build/three.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://rawgit.com/mrdoob/three.js/dev/examples/js/controls/TrackballControls.js"></script>