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I'm setting up a 3d asset viewer in Three.js. I'm running the code on a Plesk server provided by the university and have it linked via Dreamweaver. I'm a total newbie to JS and it was suggested in many threads and posts that I wrap my code within an 'init();' function. Up doing so, and clearing any errors that the code had, it is now showing a black screen, rather than the 3d model it would show before.
I've spent the whole day error checking removing problems that I was having which included the 'canvas' not being created inside the 'container' div, and the 'onWindowResize' function. All these problems have been resolved, and there are no errors in the code apparently. I've got ambient lights in the code and there was a working skybox, so I'm sure its not a problem with position of camera or lack of lighting.
I know that you need as little code as possible, but I have no idea where the problem is coming from, so a majority of the code on the page is here :
<div id="container" ></div>
<script>
let container;
let camera;
let controls;
let scene;
let renderer;
init();
animate;
function init(){
// Renderer - WebGL is primary Renderer for Three.JS
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({antialias : true});
renderer.setClearColor(0xEEEEEE, 0.5);
// Selects and applies parameters to the 'Container' div
var container = document.querySelector("#container");
container.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
renderer.setSize(container.clientWidth, container.clientHeight);
// Perspective Camera (FOV, aspect ratio based on container, near, far)
var camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 75, container.clientWidth / container.clientHeight, 0.1, 1000);
camera.position.x = 750;
camera.position.y = 500;
camera.position.z = 1250;
// Scene will contain all objects in the world
var scene = new THREE.Scene();
//Lighting (Colour, intensity)
var light1Ambient = new THREE.AmbientLight(0xffffff , 0.3);
scene.add(light1Ambient);
var light1Point = new THREE.PointLight(0xfff2c1, 0.5, 0, 2);
scene.add(light1Point);
var light2Point = new THREE.PointLight(0xd6e3ff, 0.4, 0, 2);
scene.add(light2Point);
// All basic Geomety
var newPlane = new THREE.PlaneGeometry(250,250,100,100);
const mesh = new THREE.Mesh(
new THREE.BoxGeometry(1, 1, 1),
new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( {color: 0x00ff00} )
);
scene.add(mesh);
// Water
water = new THREE.Water(newPlane,
{
textureWidth: 512,
textureHeight: 512,
waterNormals: new THREE.TextureLoader().load( 'http://up826703.ct.port.ac.uk/CTPRO/textures/waternormals.jpg', function ( texture ) {
texture.wrapS = texture.wrapT = THREE.RepeatWrapping;
} ),
alpha: 1.0,
sunDirection: light1Point.position.clone().normalize(),
sunColor: 0xffffff,
waterColor: 0x001e0f,
distortionScale: 0.5,
fog: scene.fog !== undefined
}
);
water.rotation.x = - Math.PI / 2;
scene.add( water );
// All Materials (Normal for Debugging) (Lambert: color)
var material = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({color: 0xF3FFE2});
var materialNew = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( {color: 0x00ff00} );
// Skybox
var skybox = new THREE.BoxGeometry(1000,1000, 1000);
var skyboxMaterials =
[
new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: new THREE.TextureLoader().load("http://up826703.ct.port.ac.uk/CTPRO/skybox/blue/bluecloud_ft.jpg"), side: THREE.DoubleSide }),
new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: new THREE.TextureLoader().load("http://up826703.ct.port.ac.uk/CTPRO/skybox/blue/bluecloud_bk.jpg"), side: THREE.DoubleSide }),
new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: new THREE.TextureLoader().load("http://up826703.ct.port.ac.uk/CTPRO/skybox/blue/bluecloud_up.jpg"), side: THREE.DoubleSide }),
new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: new THREE.TextureLoader().load("http://up826703.ct.port.ac.uk/CTPRO/skybox/blue/bluecloud_dn.jpg"), side: THREE.DoubleSide }),
new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: new THREE.TextureLoader().load("http://up826703.ct.port.ac.uk/CTPRO/skybox/blue/bluecloud_rt.jpg"), side: THREE.DoubleSide }),
new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: new THREE.TextureLoader().load("http://up826703.ct.port.ac.uk/CTPRO/skybox/blue/bluecloud_lf.jpg"), side: THREE.DoubleSide }),
];
var skyboxMaterial = new THREE.MeshFaceMaterial(skyboxMaterials);
var skyMesh = new THREE.Mesh (skybox, skyboxMaterial);
scene.add(skyMesh);
//Grid Helper Beneath Ship
scene.add(new THREE.GridHelper(250, 250));
//OBJ Model Loading
var objLoader = new THREE.OBJLoader();
objLoader.load('http://up826703.ct.port.ac.uk/CTPRO/models/ship1.obj', function(object){
scene.add(object);
});
// Object positioning
water.position.y = -2.5;
// Misc Positioning
light1Point.position.z =20;
light1Point.position.x = 25;
// z - front-back position
light2Point.position.z = -400;
// x - left-right
light2Point.position.x = -25;
// y - up- down
light2Point.position.y = 250;
window.addEventListener("resize", onWindowResize, false);
function onWindowResize() {
camera.aspect = window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight;
camera.updateProjectionMatrix();
renderer.setSize(container.clientWidth, container.clientHeight);
};
};
// Canvas adapts size based on changing windows size
//Render loop
var animate = function(){
water.material.uniforms[ "time" ].value += 1.0 / 120.0;
function drawFrame(ts){
var center = new THREE.Vector2(0,0);
window.requestAnimationFrame(drawFrame);
var vLength = newPlane.geometry.vertices.length;
for (var i = 0; i < vLength; i++) {
var v = newPlane.geometry.vertices[i];
var dist = new THREE.Vector2(v.x, v.y).sub(center);
var size = 2.0;
var magnitude = 8;
v.z = Math.sin(dist.length()/-size + (ts/900)) * magnitude;
}
newPlane.geometry.verticesNeedUpdate = true;
};
requestAnimationFrame(animate)
renderer.render(scene, camera);
controls.update();
}
</script>
I'm no professional, so I'm sorry if this is super rough for those of you with experience!
I need to point out, before wrapping all of this in the init(); function, it was working perfectly.
When working, I should see a crudely modeled ship sitting in some water, with a cloud skybox. The controls were working and it would auto rotate.
Right now it does none of this. The obj loader is working as seen in the chrome console log OBJLoader: 1661.970703125ms but again, nothing is actually displayed, it's just a black screen.
Thanks to anyone who's able to help me out with this!
this line
animate;
needs to a function call
animate();
Also you probably need to change the code below where you create the animate function from
var animate = function(){
To this
function animate(){
The reason is named functions are defined when the code is loaded but variables var are created when the code is executed. So with code like this
init();
animate();
var animate = function(){ ...
animate doesn't actually exist at the point the code tries to call it whereas with this
init();
animate();
function animate(){ ...
it does exist
You could also re-arrange the code so for example define animate before you use it should work.
var animate = function(){
...
};
init();
animate();
It also appear some are declared inside init which means that are not available to animate. So for example
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({antialias : true});
declares a new variable renderer that only init can see. You wanted to set the renderer variable that is outside of init so change the code to
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({antialias : true});
controls is never defined so you probably need to define it or comment out
controls.update();
to
// controls.update();
note: you might find these tutorials helpful although if you're new to JavaScript you should probably spend time learning JavaScript
I'm studying Three.js and I'm tryng to do my first game: and endless game.
I have read this article and the purpose is to do something very similar.
The protagonist (the hero) is a blue ball that rolls towards the "infinity" and must avoid some obstacles that gradually arise in front of him. The user can avoid these obstacles by guiding the ball to the left or right and jumping (the idea is to use the keyboard and in particular the left/right arrow keys and the space bar to jump).
Here is my idea:
I want to follow the idea of the article but not to copy the code (I want to understand it).
This is what I've done so far:
let sceneWidth = window.innerWidth;
let sceneHeight = window.innerHeight;
let canvas;
let camera;
let scene;
let renderer;
let dom;
let sun;
let hero;
let ground;
let clock;
let spotLight;
let ambientLight;
init();
function init() {
createScene();
showHelpers();
update();
}
/**
* Set up scene.
*/
function createScene() {
clock = new THREE.Clock();
clock.start();
scene = new THREE.Scene();
window.scene = scene;
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(60, sceneWidth / sceneHeight, 0.1, 1000);
camera.position.set(0, 0, 0);
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({ antialias: true });
renderer.setClearColor(0x333f47, 1);
renderer.shadowMap.enabled = true;
renderer.shadowMapSoft = true;
renderer.setSize(sceneWidth, sceneHeight);
canvas = renderer.domElement;
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
// const orbitControls = new THREE.OrbitControls(camera, canvas);
addGround();
addHero();
addLight();
camera.position.set(0, -1, 0.6);
camera.lookAt(new THREE.Vector3(0, 0, 0));
window.addEventListener("resize", onWindowResize, false);
}
/**
* Show helper.
*/
function showHelpers() {
const axesHelper = new THREE.AxesHelper(5);
// scene.add(axesHelper);
const spotLightHelper = new THREE.SpotLightHelper(spotLight);
scene.add(spotLightHelper);
}
/**
* Add ground to scene.
*/
function addGround() {
const geometry = new THREE.PlaneGeometry(1, 4);
const material = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({
color: 0xcccccc,
side: THREE.DoubleSide
});
ground = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
ground.position.set(0, 1, 0);
ground.receiveShadow = true;
scene.add(ground);
}
/**
* Add hero to scene.
*/
function addHero() {
var geometry = new THREE.SphereGeometry(0.03, 32, 32);
var material = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({
color: 0x3875d8,
side: THREE.DoubleSide
});
hero = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
hero.receiveShadow = true;
hero.castShadow = true;
scene.add(hero);
hero.position.set(0, -0.62, 0.03);
}
/**
* Add light to scene.
*/
function addLight() {
// spot light
spotLight = new THREE.SpotLight(0xffffff);
spotLight.position.set(2, 30, 0);
spotLight.angle = degToRad(10);
spotLight.castShadow = true;
spotLight.shadow.mapSize.width = 1024;
spotLight.shadow.mapSize.height = 1024;
spotLight.shadow.camera.near = 1;
spotLight.shadow.camera.far = 4000;
spotLight.shadow.camera.fov = 45;
scene.add(spotLight);
// ambient light
ambientLight = new THREE.AmbientLight(0x303030, 2);
scene.add(ambientLight);
}
/**
* Call game loop.
*/
function update() {
render();
requestAnimationFrame(update);
}
/**
* Render the scene.
*/
function render() {
renderer.render(scene, camera);
}
/**
* On window resize, render again the scene.
*/
function onWindowResize() {
sceneHeight = window.innerHeight;
sceneWidth = window.innerWidth;
renderer.setSize(sceneWidth, sceneHeight);
camera.aspect = sceneWidth / sceneHeight;
camera.updateProjectionMatrix();
}
/**
* Degree to radiants
*/
function degToRad(degree) {
return degree * (Math.PI / 180);
}
<script src="https://threejs.org/build/three.min.js"></script>
(JSFiddle)
I'm having several problems, the first is the position of objects and the camera.
I would like to be able to position the plane so that the minor side is positioned at the beginning of the screen (the entire plane must therefore be visible, there must not be a hidden part).
I would like the ball to be positioned horizontally in the middle and vertically almost at the beginning of the floor (in short, as shown in the figure) and with the shadow projected onto the plane. Each object must have the shadow projected onto the plane.
I'm using a spotlight and Lambert materials so the shade should be there, but there is not. Why?
I don't even understand how to position objects.
I understood that the point (0, 0, 0) is the center of the screen.
I would like the ground to be at y=0 and all the other objects are positioned above as if they were resting.
My code works but I don't know if there are better ways to handle object placement.
I would also simplify my life by assigning to sphere radius 1 and not 0.03 and then making the scene "smaller" moving the camera away as zoom-out (I think this is the trick).
So, I need help setting the scene correctly.
That is my first application in ThreeJs so any advice is welcome!
EDIT 1
I changed camera.lookAt(new THREE.Vector3(0, 0, 0)); to camera.lookAt(new THREE.Vector3(0, 0, -5)); and I added spotLight.lookAt(new THREE.Vector3(0, 0, -5));.
This is the result:
Not exactly what I want...
You're right in placing your plane and sphere at 0 on the y-axis. The problem you're having is that you're telling the camera to look straight at (0, 0, 0) when you do
camera.lookAt(0, 0, 0);
so you'll get the ball perfectly centered. What you should do is tell the camera to look a little bit ahead of the sphere. You'll have to tweak the value, but something like this should do the trick:
camera.lookAt(0, 0, -5);
Additionally, your spotlight is pointing straight ahead. When you place it at (2, 30, 0), its effects get lost. You need to point it to where you want:
spotLight.lookAt(0, 0, -5);
I have a 3D sphere that I want to map an array of images onto, and I want to be able to control each individual image i.e. fading out/in each image independently. I'll provide an example image of what I'm trying to achieve as I feel like that's the best way to explain it.
So as you can see above, 8 images per column and 16(?) per row.
I have been able to recreate the above image by simply mapping that image to a SphereGeometry, however I would like to be able to dynamically swap out images, and fade them in at different times.
What I've tried so far / My ideas:
I tried pushing 8 test images to an array and using that as the material map, and then looping through each face of the SphereGeometry and assigning a material index of 1 through 8 and then resetting after every 8 using modulo, but that didn't work:
function createGlobe() {
var geomGlobe = new THREE.SphereGeometry(40, 32, 16);
var l = geomGlobe.faces.length;
imageArray.push(new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: texture1}));
imageArray.push(new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: texture2}));
imageArray.push(new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: texture3}));
imageArray.push(new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: texture4}));
imageArray.push(new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: texture5}));
imageArray.push(new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: texture6}));
imageArray.push(new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: texture7}));
imageArray.push(new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: texture8}));
for (var i = 0; i < l; i++) {
geomGlobe.faces[i].materialIndex = i % 8;
}
Globe = new THREE.Mesh(geomGlobe, imageArray);
scene.add(Globe);
}
I think I need to count every 4 or 8 faces and then set the material
index for each one of those faces to be the same so that they all use
the same image, but I'm not sure if the faces line up correctly in
that way.
So essentially what I need:
A way to dynamically add images to a sphere in an 8 per column, 16 per row fashion, and the ability to manipulate each one of those images individually.
Any help is very appreciated because I'm very stuck!
I recommend making a large canvas and using that as your texture, then animating your transitions into the canvas, followed by setting texture.needsUpdate = true to update it on the GPU.
You may find that the texture updating takes too much time.. in which case, you could try making 2 canvasses+spheres.. and crossfade between them by changing the frontmost ones opacity.
Below is a snippet showing one way to fade one sphere into another with some randomly filled canvasses..
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
var w = 300;
var h = 200;
renderer.setSize(w, h);
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
var scene = new THREE.Scene();
var camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(
45, // Field of view
w / h, // Aspect ratio
0.1, // Near
10000 // Far
);
camera.position.set(15, 10, 15);
camera.lookAt(scene.position);
controls = new THREE.OrbitControls(camera, renderer.domElement);
var light = new THREE.PointLight(0xFFFF00);
light.position.set(20, 20, 20);
scene.add(light);
var light1 = new THREE.AmbientLight(0x808080);
light1.position.set(20, 20, 20);
scene.add(light1);
var light2 = new THREE.PointLight(0x00FFFF);
light2.position.set(-20, 20, -20);
scene.add(light2);
var light3 = new THREE.PointLight(0xFF00FF);
light3.position.set(-20, -20, -20);
scene.add(light3);
var sphereGeom = new THREE.SphereGeometry(5, 16, 16);
function rnd(rng) {
return (Math.random() * rng)
}
function irnd(rng) {
return rnd(rng) | 0
}
function randomCanvasTexture(sz) {
var canv = document.createElement('canvas');
canv.width = canv.height = sz;
var ctx = canv.getContext('2d')
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${irnd(256)},${irnd(256)},${irnd(256)})`
ctx.fillRect(irnd(sz), irnd(sz), 32, 32)
}
var tex = new THREE.Texture(canv);
tex.needsUpdate = true;
return tex;
}
var material = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({
color: 0x808080,
map: randomCanvasTexture(256)
});
var mesh = new THREE.Mesh(sphereGeom, material);
var mesh1 = mesh.clone()
mesh1.material = mesh.material.clone()
mesh1.material.transparent = true;
mesh1.material.opacity = 0.5;
mesh1.material.map = randomCanvasTexture(256)
scene.add(mesh);
scene.add(mesh1);
renderer.setClearColor(0xdddddd, 1);
(function animate() {
mesh1.material.opacity = (Math.sin(performance.now() * 0.001) + 1) * 0.5
requestAnimationFrame(animate);
controls.update();
renderer.render(scene, camera);
})();
<script src="https://threejs.org/build/three.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/mrdoob/three.js/master/examples/js/controls/OrbitControls.js"></script>
Without gunning for any optimizations, one could try something like this:
textures.forEach( tex=>{
const s = mySphere.clone()
s.material = s.material.clone()
tex.offset.copy(someOffset)
tex.repeat.copy(someRepeat)
tex.wrapS = tex.wrapT = THREE.ClampToEdgeWrapping // or something like that
s.material.map = tex
s.material.transparent = true
scene.add(s)
})
The idea is to just draw the same sphere over and over, but masked with different offsets. It might not work with just the .map but it might work with alphaMap which is either all black or all white.
I am able to display a THREE.TubeGeometry figure as follows
Code below, link to jsbin
<html>
<body>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/three.js/r75/three.js"></script>
<script>
// global variables
var renderer;
var scene;
var camera;
var geometry;
var control;
var count = 0;
var animationTracker;
init();
drawSpline();
function init()
{
// create a scene, that will hold all our elements such as objects, cameras and lights.
scene = new THREE.Scene();
// create a camera, which defines where we're looking at.
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(45, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.1, 1000);
// create a render, sets the background color and the size
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setClearColor('lightgray', 1.0);
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
// position and point the camera to the center of the scene
camera.position.x = 0;
camera.position.y = 40;
camera.position.z = 40;
camera.lookAt(scene.position);
// add the output of the renderer to the html element
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
}
function drawSpline(numPoints)
{
var numPoints = 100;
// var start = new THREE.Vector3(-5, 0, 20);
var start = new THREE.Vector3(-5, 0, 20);
var middle = new THREE.Vector3(0, 35, 0);
var end = new THREE.Vector3(5, 0, -20);
var curveQuad = new THREE.QuadraticBezierCurve3(start, middle, end);
var tube = new THREE.TubeGeometry(curveQuad, numPoints, 0.5, 20, false);
var mesh = new THREE.Mesh(tube, new THREE.MeshNormalMaterial({
opacity: 0.9,
transparent: true
}));
scene.add(mesh);
renderer.render(scene, camera);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
However, I would like to display incrementally, as in, like an arc that is loading, such that it starts as the start point, draws incrementally and finally looks the below arc upon completion.
I have been putting in some effort, and was able to do this by storing all the points/coordinates covered by the arc, and drawing lines between the consecutive coordinates, such that I get the 'arc loading incrementally' feel. However, is there a better way to achieve this? This is the link to jsbin
Adding the code here as well
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Incremental Spline Curve</title>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/three.js/r75/three.js"></script>
<style>
body {
margin: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
</head>
<script>
// global variables
var renderer;
var scene;
var camera;
var splineGeometry;
var control;
var count = 0;
var animationTracker;
// var sphereCamera;
var sphere;
var light;
function init() {
// create a scene, that will hold all our elements such as objects, cameras and lights.
scene = new THREE.Scene();
// create a camera, which defines where we're looking at.
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(45, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.1, 1000);
// create a render, sets the background color and the size
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
// renderer.setClearColor(0x000000, 1.0);
renderer.setClearColor( 0xffffff, 1 );
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
// position and point the camera to the center of the scene
camera.position.x = 0;
camera.position.y = 40;
camera.position.z = 40;
camera.lookAt(scene.position);
// add the output of the renderer to the html element
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
// //init for sphere
// sphereCamera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(45, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 1, 1000);
// sphereCamera.position.y = -400;
// sphereCamera.position.z = 400;
// sphereCamera.rotation.x = .70;
sphere = new THREE.Mesh(new THREE.SphereGeometry(0.8,31,31), new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({
color: 'yellow',
}));
light = new THREE.DirectionalLight('white', 1);
// light.position.set(0,-400,400).normalize();
light.position.set(0,10,10).normalize();
//get points covered by Spline
getSplineData();
}
//save points in geometry.vertices
function getSplineData() {
var curve = new THREE.CubicBezierCurve3(
new THREE.Vector3( -5, 0, 10 ),
new THREE.Vector3(0, 20, 0 ),
new THREE.Vector3(0, 20, 0 ),
new THREE.Vector3( 2, 0, -25 )
);
splineGeometry = new THREE.Geometry();
splineGeometry.vertices = curve.getPoints( 50 );
animate();
}
//scheduler loop
function animate() {
if(count == 50)
{
cancelAnimationFrame(animationTracker);
return;
}
//add line to the scene
drawLine();
renderer.render(scene, camera);
// renderer.render(scene, sphereCamera);
count += 1;
// camera.position.z -= 0.25;
// camera.position.y -= 0.25;
animationTracker = requestAnimationFrame(animate);
}
function drawLine() {
var lineGeometry = new THREE.Geometry();
var lineMaterial = new THREE.LineBasicMaterial({
color: 0x0000ff
});
console.log(splineGeometry.vertices[count]);
console.log(splineGeometry.vertices[count+1]);
lineGeometry.vertices.push(
splineGeometry.vertices[count],
splineGeometry.vertices[count+1]
);
var line = new THREE.Line( lineGeometry, lineMaterial );
scene.add( line );
}
// calls the init function when the window is done loading.
window.onload = init;
</script>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Drawback : The drawback of doing it the above way is that, end of the day, I'm drawing a line between consecutive points, and so I lose out on a lot of the effects possible in TubeGeometry such as, thickness, transparency etc.
Please suggest me an alternative way to get a smooth incremental load for the TubeGeometry.
THREE.TubeGeometry returns a THREE.BufferGeometry.
With THREE.BufferGeometry, you have access to a property drawRange that you can set to animate the drawing of the mesh:
let nEnd = 0, nMax, nStep = 90; // 30 faces * 3 vertices/face
...
const geometry = new THREE.TubeGeometry( path, pathSegments, tubeRadius, radiusSegments, closed );
nMax = geometry.attributes.position.count;
...
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame( animate );
nEnd = ( nEnd + nStep ) % nMax;
mesh.geometry.setDrawRange( 0, nEnd );
renderer.render( scene, camera );
}
EDIT: For another approach, see this SO answer.
three.js r.144
Normally you would be able to use the method .getPointAt() to "get a vector for point at relative position in curve according to arc length" to get a point at a certain percentage of the length of the curve.
So normally if you want to draw 70% of the curve and a full curve is drawn in 100 segments. Then you could do:
var percentage = 70;
var curvePath = new THREE.CurvePath();
var end, start = curveQuad.getPointAt( 0 );
for(var i = 1; i < percentage; i++){
end = curveQuad.getPointAt( percentage / 100 );
lineCurve = new THREE.LineCurve( start, end );
curvePath.add( lineCurve );
start = end;
}
But I think this is not working for your curveQuad since the getPointAt method is not implemented for this type. A work around is to get a 100 points for your curve in an array like this:
points = curve.getPoints(100);
And then you can do almost the same:
var percentage = 70;
var curvePath = new THREE.CurvePath();
var end, start = points[ 0 ];
for(var i = 1; i < percentage; i++){
end = points[ percentage ]
lineCurve = new THREE.LineCurve( start, end );
curvePath.add( lineCurve );
start = end;
}
now your curvePath holds the line segments you want to use for drawing the tube:
// draw the geometry
var radius = 5, radiusSegments = 8, closed = false;
var geometry = new THREE.TubeGeometry(curvePath, percentage, radius, radiusSegments, closed);
Here a fiddle with a demonstration on how to use this dynamically
I'm not really that familiar with three.js. But I think I can be of assistance. I have two solutions for you. Both based on the same principle: build a new TubeGeometry or rebuild the current one, around a new curve.
Solution 1 (Simple):
var CurveSection = THREE.Curve.create(function(base, from, to) {
this.base = base;
this.from = from;
this.to = to;
}, function(t) {
return this.base.getPoint((1 - t) * this.from + t * this.to);
});
You define a new type of curve which just selects a segment out of a given curve. Usage:
var curve = new CurveSection(yourCurve, 0, .76); // Where .76 is your percentage
Now you can build a new tube.
Solution 2 (Mathematics!):
You are using for your arc a quadratic bezier curve, that's awesome! This curve is a parabola. You want just a segment of that parabola and that is again a parabola, just with other bounds.
What we need is a section of the bezier curve. Let's say the curve is defined by A (start), B (direction), C (end). If we want to change the start to a point D and the end to a point F we need the point E that is the direction of the curve in D and F. So the tangents to our parabola in D and F have to intersect in E. So the following code will give us the desired result:
// Calculates the instersection point of Line3 l1 and Line3 l2.
function intersection(l1, l2) {
var A = l1.start;
var P = l2.closestPointToPoint(A);
var Q = l1.closestPointToPoint(P);
var l = P.distanceToSquared(A) / Q.distanceTo(A);
var d = (new THREE.Vector3()).subVectors(Q, A);
return d.multiplyScalar(l / d.length()).add(A);
}
// Calculate the tangentVector of the bezier-curve
function tangentQuadraticBezier(bezier, t) {
var s = bezier.v0,
m = bezier.v1,
e = bezier.v2;
return new THREE.Vector3(
THREE.CurveUtils.tangentQuadraticBezier(t, s.x, m.x, e.x),
THREE.CurveUtils.tangentQuadraticBezier(t, s.y, m.y, e.y),
THREE.CurveUtils.tangentQuadraticBezier(t, s.z, m.z, e.z)
);
}
// Returns a new QuadraticBezierCurve3 with the new bounds.
function sectionInQuadraticBezier(bezier, from, to) {
var s = bezier.v0,
m = bezier.v1,
e = bezier.v2;
var ns = bezier.getPoint(from),
ne = bezier.getPoint(to);
var nm = intersection(
new THREE.Line3(ns, tangentQuadraticBezier(bezier, from).add(ns)),
new THREE.Line3(ne, tangentQuadraticBezier(bezier, to).add(ne))
);
return new THREE.QuadraticBezierCurve3(ns, nm, ne);
}
This is a very mathematical way, but if you should need the special properties of a Bezier curve, this is the way to go.
Note: The first solution is the simplest. I am not familiar with Three.js so I wouldn't know what the most efficient way to implement the animation is. Three.js doesn't seem to use the special properties of a bezier curve so maybe solution 2 isn't that useful.
I hope you have gotten something useful out of this.
I created a small scene with 3 spheres and a triangle connecting the 3 centers of the spheres, i.e. the triangle vertex positions are the same variables as the sphere positions.
Now I expected that if i change the position of one of the spheres, the triangle vertex should be moved together with it (since it's the same position object) and therefore still connect the three spheres.
However, if I do this coordinate change AFTER the renderer was called, the triangle is NOT changed. (Though it does change if I move the sphere BEFORE the renderer is called.)
This seems to indicate that the renderer doesnt use the original position objects but a clone of them.
Q: Is there a way to avoid this cloning behaviour (or whatever is the reason for the independent positions) so I can still change two objects with one variable change? Or am I doing something wrong?
The code:
var width = window.innerWidth;
var height = window.innerHeight;
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({ antialias: true });
renderer.setSize(width, height);
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
var scene = new THREE.Scene;
var camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(30, width / height, 0.1, 10000);
camera.position=new THREE.Vector3(50,50,50);
camera.lookAt(new THREE.Vector3(0,0,0));
scene.add(camera);
var pointLight = new THREE.PointLight(0xffffff);
pointLight.position=camera.position;
scene.add(pointLight);
var sphere=[];
var sphereGeometry = new THREE.SphereGeometry(1,8,8);
var sphereMaterial = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({ color: 0xff0000 });
var triGeom = new THREE.Geometry();
for (var i=0; i<3; i++) {
sphere[i] = new THREE.Mesh(sphereGeometry, sphereMaterial);
sphere[i].position=new THREE.Vector3(10*i,20+5*(i-1)^2,0);
scene.add(sphere[i]);
triGeom.vertices.push(sphere[i].position);
}
triGeom.faces.push( new THREE.Face3( 0, 1, 2 ) );
triGeom.computeFaceNormals();
var tri= new THREE.Mesh( triGeom, new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({side:THREE.DoubleSide, color: 0x00ff00}) );
scene.add(tri);
sphere[0].position.x+=10; // this changes both sphere and triangle vertex
renderer.render(scene, camera);
sphere[1].position.x+=10; // this changes only the sphere
renderer.render(scene, camera);
This is probably because of geometry caching feature. You will have to set triGeom.verticesNeedUpdate = true every time you change vertex position.