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Mousemove event with three.js and gsap

I am trying to do a mousemove event where the mesh would scale when the mouse hovers over it and then it goes back to its original size when the mouse no longer hovers above it. So I've been looking at other examples and they don,t use gsap. The closest one I've seen is tween.js so maybe my syntax is wrong but I don't know how to rectify it.
Here is my function
function onMouseMove(event) {
//finding position of mouse
event.preventDefault();
mouse.x = ( event.clientX / window.innerWidth ) * 2 - 1;
mouse.y = - ( event.clientY / window.innerHeight ) * 2 + 1;
raycaster.setFromCamera(mouse,camera);
// meshes included in mousemove
objects.push( mesh);
objects.push( mesh2 );
//including objects into intersects
var intersects = raycaster.intersectObjects(objects, true);
//if statement for intersection
if ( intersects.length > 0 ) {
if ( intersects[ 0 ].object != INTERSECTED )
{
if ( INTERSECTED )
//gsap animation
INTERSECTED.gsap.to(intersects[0].object.scale, {duration: .7, x: 1.2, y:1.2});
INTERSECTED = intersects[ 0 ].object;
}
} else {// there are no intersections
// restore previous intersection object to its original size
if ( INTERSECTED )
gsap.to(intersects[0].object.scale, {duration: .7, x: 1, y:1});
INTERSECTED = null;
}
}
With this I get an error:
Cannot read property 'object' of undefined
at onMouseMove
But when I previously did a for loop with undefined object, the code works, but I just need it to scale down again
Here is my for loop:
for(var i = 0; i < intersects.length; i++) {
gsap.to(intersects[i].object.scale, {duration: .7, x: 1.2, y:1.2});
};
EDIT:
created a fiddle, using the for loop but commented out the if statement:
let camera, scene, renderer, cube, cube1;
let raycaster;
let mouse = new THREE.Vector2(), INTERSECTED;
const objects = [];
init();
animate();
function init() {
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 70, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.1, 100 );
camera.position.z = 20;
scene = new THREE.Scene();
const geometry = new THREE.BoxBufferGeometry(3,3,3);
const material = new THREE. MeshBasicMaterial({ color: 0x00ff00 });
cube = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
cube.position.y = 5;
scene.add(cube);
const geometry1 = new THREE.BoxBufferGeometry(3,3,3);
const material1 = new THREE. MeshBasicMaterial({ color: 0x00ff00 });
cube1 = new THREE.Mesh(geometry1, material1);
scene.add(cube1);
raycaster = new THREE.Raycaster();
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer( { antialias: true } );
renderer.setPixelRatio( window.devicePixelRatio );
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
document.body.appendChild( renderer.domElement );
window.addEventListener('mousemove',onMouseMove, false);
}
// animation
function onMouseMove (event) {
event.preventDefault();
mouse.x = ( event.clientX / window.innerWidth ) * 2 - 1;
mouse.y = - ( event.clientY / window.innerHeight ) * 2 + 1;
raycaster.setFromCamera(mouse,camera);
//included in mousemove
objects.push( cube );
objects.push( cube1 );
var intersects = raycaster.intersectObjects(objects, true);
//working for loop
for(var i = 0; i < intersects.length; i++) {
gsap.to(intersects[i].object.scale, {duration: .7, x: 1.2, y:1.2});
}
//not working if statement
/*
if ( intersects.length > 0 ) {
if ( intersects[ 0 ].object != INTERSECTED )
{
if ( INTERSECTED )
INTERSECTED.gsap.to(intersects[0].object.scale, {duration: .7, x: 1.2, y:1.2});
INTERSECTED = intersects[ 0 ].object;
}
} else {// there are no intersections
// restore previous intersection object (if it exists) to its original size
if ( INTERSECTED )
gsap.to(intersects[0].object.scale, {duration: .7, x: 1.2, y:1.2});
INTERSECTED = null;
}
*/
}
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame( animate );
renderer.render( scene, camera );
}
body {
margin: 0;
}
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/three#0.114/build/three.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gsap#3.2.4/dist/gsap.js"></script>

Try it with this updated code:
let camera, scene, renderer, cube, cube1;
let raycaster;
let mouse = new THREE.Vector2(), INTERSECTED = null;
const objects = [];
init();
animate();
function init() {
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 70, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.1, 100 );
camera.position.z = 20;
scene = new THREE.Scene();
const geometry = new THREE.BoxBufferGeometry( 3, 3, 3 );
const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { color: 0x00ff00 } );
cube = new THREE.Mesh( geometry, material );
cube.position.y = 5;
scene.add( cube );
const geometry1 = new THREE.BoxBufferGeometry( 3, 3, 3 );
const material1 = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { color: 0x00ff00 } );
cube1 = new THREE.Mesh( geometry1, material1 );
scene.add( cube1 );
raycaster = new THREE.Raycaster();
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer( { antialias: true } );
renderer.setPixelRatio( window.devicePixelRatio );
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
document.body.appendChild( renderer.domElement );
window.addEventListener( 'mousemove', onMouseMove, false );
}
function onMouseMove( event ) {
event.preventDefault();
mouse.x = ( event.clientX / window.innerWidth ) * 2 - 1;
mouse.y = - ( event.clientY / window.innerHeight ) * 2 + 1;
raycaster.setFromCamera( mouse, camera );
//included in mousemove
objects.push( cube );
objects.push( cube1 );
var intersects = raycaster.intersectObjects( objects, true );
if ( intersects.length > 0 ) {
var object = intersects[ 0 ].object;
if ( object !== INTERSECTED ) {
INTERSECTED = object;
gsap.to( INTERSECTED.scale, { duration: .7, x: 1.2, y: 1.2 } );
}
} else {
if ( INTERSECTED !== null ) {
gsap.to( INTERSECTED.scale, { duration: .7, x: 1, y: 1 } );
INTERSECTED = null;
}
}
}
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame( animate );
renderer.render( scene, camera );
}
body {
margin: 0;
}
canvas {
display: block;
}
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/three#0.114/build/three.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gsap#3.2.4/dist/gsap.js"></script>

onLoad event in Three.js

I am making my first steps in JavaScript and playing with Three.js too. I am trying to make an event to activate a Tween each time that I reload my site.
I have a week trying to make it but I didn't get it. I already watched some tutorials but it still doesn't working. This is the code I made:
document.addEventListener( 'load', onDocumentLoad, false );
function onDocumentLoad( event ) {
raycaster.setFromCamera( mouse, camera );
var intersects = raycaster.intersectObjects( scene.children );
new TWEEN.Tween( intersects[ 0 ].object.position ).to( {
x: 0,
y: 0,
z: 1500 }, 50000 )
.easing( TWEEN.Easing.Sinusoidal.In).start();
new TWEEN.Tween( intersects[ 0 ].object.rotation ).to( {
x: Math.random() * 2 * Math.PI,
y: Math.random() * 2 * Math.PI,
z: Math.random() * 2 * Math.PI }, 30000 )
.easing( TWEEN.Easing.Sinusoidal.In).start();
//setTimeout('window.open(\'http://www.lemonde.fr/\',"_self")', 38000);
}
I knwow that maybe it is a stupid question but I am learning for my own. So please help me if you can, this is an important project for me.
and this is the complete code if it can helps:
<script>
var container;
var camera, scene, renderer;
var raycaster;
var mouse;
init();
animate();
function init() {
container = document.createElement( 'div' );
document.body.appendChild( container );
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 70, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 1, 10000 );
camera.target = new THREE.Vector3( 0, 50, 0 );
camera.position.y = 300;
camera.position.z = 500;
scene = new THREE.Scene();
//environment map
//JavaScript does not know the number of images on your server side. You need to count and pass a number of the last image from server with PHP in example.
var numberOfImages = 46, images = [];
for (var i = 1; i <= numberOfImages; i++) {
images.push('sources/instagram2/image' + i + ".jpg");
}
var urls = images.sort(function(){return .6 - Math.random()}).slice(0,6);
var reflectionSphere = THREE.ImageUtils.loadTextureCube( urls, THREE.SphereReflectionMapping );
//loading the model
var loader = new THREE.BinaryLoader();
loader.load( "sources/obj/mmlogo/mm_logo.js", function ( geometry ) {
var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( {
color: 0x515151,
morphTargets: true,
overdraw: 0.5,
envMap: reflectionSphere,
combine: THREE.AddOperation,
reflectivity: 1,
shininess: 0,
side: THREE.DoubleSide,
} );
//assign a mesh to the geometry
mesh = new THREE.Mesh( geometry, material );
mesh.scale.set( 120, 120, 120 );
mesh.position.y = 50;
scene.add( mesh );
mixer = new THREE.AnimationMixer( mesh );
var clip = THREE.AnimationClip.CreateFromMorphTargetSequence( 'gallop', geometry.morphTargets, 30 );
mixer.addAction( new THREE.AnimationAction( clip ).warpToDuration( 1 ) );
} );
//
raycaster = new THREE.Raycaster();
mouse = new THREE.Vector2();
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({ alpha: true });
renderer.setClearColor(0xfffff, 0);
renderer.setPixelRatio( window.devicePixelRatio );
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
container.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
document.addEventListener( 'load', onDocumentLoad, false );
//
window.addEventListener( 'resize', onWindowResize, false );
}
function onWindowResize() {
camera.aspect = window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight;
camera.updateProjectionMatrix();
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
}
function onDocumentTouchStart( event ) {
event.preventDefault();
event.clientX = event.touches[0].clientX;
event.clientY = event.touches[0].clientY;
onDocumentMouseDown( event );
}
function onDocumentLoad( event ) {
event.preventDefault();
mouse.x = ( event.clientX / renderer.domElement.width ) * 2 - 1;
mouse.y = - ( event.clientY / renderer.domElement.height ) * 2 + 1;
raycaster.setFromCamera( mouse, camera );
var intersects = raycaster.intersectObjects( scene.children );
new TWEEN.Tween( intersects[ 0 ].object.position ).to( {
x: 0,
y: 0,
z: 1500 }, 50000 )
.easing( TWEEN.Easing.Sinusoidal.In).start();
new TWEEN.Tween( intersects[ 0 ].object.rotation ).to( {
x: Math.random() * 2 * Math.PI,
y: Math.random() * 2 * Math.PI,
z: Math.random() * 2 * Math.PI }, 30000 )
.easing( TWEEN.Easing.Sinusoidal.In).start();
//setTimeout('window.open(\'http://www.lemonde.fr/\',"_self")', 38000);
}
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame( animate );
render();
}
var radius = 600;
var theta = 0;
function render() {
TWEEN.update();
theta += 0;
camera.position.x = radius * Math.sin( THREE.Math.degToRad( theta ) );
camera.position.y = radius * Math.sin( THREE.Math.degToRad( theta ) );
camera.position.z = radius * Math.cos( THREE.Math.degToRad( theta ) );
camera.lookAt( camera.target );
renderer.render( scene, camera );
}
</script>

How to position sprites in Three.js?

I'm currently using PointCloud to generate a particle system but within that I would like one single sprite that floats in the position of my indication. When I tried using this three.js example: http://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_sprites I found that the Orthographic Camera limited my ability to still zoom about.
var container, stats;
var camera, scene, renderer, particles, geometry, materials =[], i, h, color, sprite, size;
var mouseX = 0, mouseY = 0;
var windowHalfX = window.innerWidth / 2;
var windowHalfY = window.innerHeight / 2;
init();
animate();
function init() {
container = document.createElement( 'div' );
document.body.appendChild( container );
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 55, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 2, 2000 );
camera.position.z = 1000;
scene = new THREE.Scene();
scene.fog = new THREE.FogExp2( 0x000000, 0.001 );
geometry = new THREE.Geometry();
sprite = THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture( "disc.png" );
for ( i = 0; i < 5000; i ++ ) {
var vertex = new THREE.Vector3();
vertex.x = 2000 * Math.random() - 1000;
vertex.y = 2000 * Math.random() - 1000;
vertex.z = 2000 * Math.random() - 1000;
geometry.vertices.push( vertex );
}
// size = Math.random() * 10;
material = new THREE.PointCloudMaterial( { size: 5, sizeAttenuation: false, map: sprite, alphaTest: 0.5, transparent: true } );
particles = new THREE.PointCloud( geometry, material );
scene.add( particles );
var map2 = THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture( "astronaut.png" );
var material2 = new THREE.SpriteMaterial( { map: map2, color: 0xffffff, fog: true } );
var sprite2 = new THREE.Sprite( material2 );
sprite2.position.x = 0;
sprite2.position.y = 0;
sprite2.position.z = 498;
scene.add( sprite2 );
//
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setPixelRatio( window.devicePixelRatio );
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
container.appendChild( renderer.domElement );
//
document.addEventListener( 'mousemove', onDocumentMouseMove, false );
document.addEventListener( 'touchstart', onDocumentTouchStart, false );
document.addEventListener( 'touchmove', onDocumentTouchMove, false );
//
window.addEventListener( 'resize', onWindowResize, false );
}
function onWindowResize() {
windowHalfX = window.innerWidth / 2;
windowHalfY = window.innerHeight / 2;
camera.aspect = window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight;
camera.updateProjectionMatrix();
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
}
function onDocumentMouseMove( event ) {
mouseX = event.clientX - windowHalfX;
mouseY = event.clientY - windowHalfY;
}
function onDocumentTouchStart( event ) {
if ( event.touches.length == 1 ) {
event.preventDefault();
mouseX = event.touches[ 0 ].pageX - windowHalfX;
mouseY = event.touches[ 0 ].pageY - windowHalfY;
}
}
function onDocumentTouchMove( event ) {
if ( event.touches.length == 1 ) {
event.preventDefault();
mouseX = event.touches[ 0 ].pageX - windowHalfX;
mouseY = event.touches[ 0 ].pageY - windowHalfY;
}
}
//
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame( animate );
render();
}
function render() {
var time = Date.now() * 0.00005;
camera.position.x += ( mouseX - camera.position.x ) * 0.05;
camera.position.y += ( - mouseY - camera.position.y ) * 0.05;
camera.lookAt( scene.position );
h = ( 360 * ( 1.0 + time ) % 360 ) / 360;
renderer.render( scene, camera );
}
My attempt at solving it was:
var map2 = THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture( "astronaut.png" );
var material2 = new THREE.SpriteMaterial( { map: map2, color: 0xffffff, fog: true } );
var sprite2 = new THREE.Sprite( material2 );
sprite2.position.x = 0;
sprite2.position.y = 0;
sprite2.position.z = 498;
scene.add( sprite2 );
Right now the sprite is in the center of the screen when I first load but instantly disappears when I begin to move the camera. Ideally, I would like the astronaut.png sprite to move with the other particles but if this is difficult, having him always fixed to the center of the screen would work fine as well.

Resolved this on my own. I created a second THREE.Geometry and THREE.Vector3 an positioned it with vertices.
geometry2 = new THREE.Geometry();
var vertex2 = new THREE.Vector3(0, 0, -50);
geometry2.vertices.push( vertex2 );
var material2 = new THREE.PointCloudMaterial( { size: 100, sizeAttenuation: false, map: map2, alphaTest: 0.5, transparent: true } );
particles2 = new THREE.PointCloud( geometry2, material2 );
scene.add( particles2 );

It seems to me that your values for mouse position would be way too high for camera positions. OpenGL works on the (-1,1) (1,1) (1,-1) (-1,-1) bounding rectangle as a unit. Pixels for your cursor position are in screen pixels like 350,720 etc.
When you increment by the half distance, your numbers are still too large. So here you have to divide by your width/height:
camera.position.x += ( mouseX / window.innerWidth- camera.position.x ) * 0.05;
camera.position.y += ( - mouseY /window.innerHeight- camera.position.y ) * 0.05;
assuming your GL portal is the same size as the window.

Adding clickable image to a mesh

This may be a really stupid question, but I am new to three.js and while I've gotten the obj file to load on the web and be controllable via mouse, I'm not quite sure how to handle the next step.
What I'd really like to do is overlay a clickable .jpg or .png file over a section of the existing mesh linking out to some web pages I already have completed. How would I go about doing this? I'd appreciate it if someone could point me to an example or let me know if it's not doable so I can look for possible alternatives.
The code I currently have is below -- it's mostly cobbled together from online example so forgive me if it seems redundant or inelegant.
var container, stats;
var camera, scene, renderer;
var mouseX = 0, mouseY = 0;
var windowHalfX = window.innerWidth / 2;
var windowHalfY = window.innerHeight / 2;
init();
animate();
function init() {
container = document.createElement( 'div' );
document.body.appendChild( container );
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 45, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 1, 2000 );
camera.position.z = 10;
controls = new THREE.TrackballControls( camera );
controls.rotateSpeed = 1.0;
controls.zoomSpeed = 1.2;
controls.panSpeed = 0.8;
controls.noZoom = false;
controls.noPan = false;
controls.staticMoving = true;
controls.dynamicDampingFactor = 0.3;
controls.keys = [ 65, 83, 68 ];
controls.addEventListener( render );
// scene
scene = new THREE.Scene();
var ambient = new THREE.AmbientLight( 0xFFFFFF );
scene.add( ambient );
/*var directionalLight = new THREE.DirectionalLight( 0xffffff );
directionalLight.position.set( 1, 1, 0 ).normalize();
scene.add( directionalLight );*/
var hemisphereLight = new THREE.HemisphereLight( 0xffffff, 0xffffff, .70);
scene.add( hemisphereLight );
// model
var onProgress = function ( xhr ) {
if ( xhr.lengthComputable ) {
var percentComplete = xhr.loaded / xhr.total * 100;
console.log( Math.round(percentComplete, 2) + '% downloaded' );
}
};
var onError = function ( xhr ) {
};
THREE.Loader.Handlers.add( /\.dds$/i, new THREE.DDSLoader() );
THREE.Loader.Handlers.add( /\.dds$/i, new THREE.DDSLoader() );
var loader = new THREE.OBJMTLLoader();
loader.load( 'obj/test/test_model.obj', 'obj/test/test_model.mtl', function ( object ) {
object.scale = new THREE.Vector3( 25, 25, 25 );
//object.position.y = - 80;
scene.add( object );
}, onProgress, onError );
//
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({ alpha: true });
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
container.appendChild( renderer.domElement );
document.addEventListener( 'mousemove', onDocumentMouseMove, false );
//
window.addEventListener( 'resize', onWindowResize, false );
}
function onWindowResize() {
windowHalfX = window.innerWidth / 2;
windowHalfY = window.innerHeight / 2;
camera.aspect = window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight;
camera.updateProjectionMatrix();
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
controls.handleResize();
}
function onDocumentMouseMove( event ) {
// mouseX = ( event.clientX - windowHalfX ) / 2;
// mouseY = ( event.clientY - windowHalfY ) / 2;
}
//
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame( animate );
controls.update();
render();
}
function render() {
//camera.position.x += ( mouseX - camera.position.x ) * .05;
//camera.position.y += ( - mouseY - camera.position.y ) * .05;
//camera.lookAt( scene.position );
renderer.render( scene, camera );
}

In your onDocumentMouseMove - or in a click event - you must compute a ray-picking intersection with http://threejs.org/docs/#Reference/Core/Raycaster and handle the reaction from there.
There are multiples examples of this, in the Three.js examples (like http://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_geometry_terrain_raycast) and on StackOverflow.
A very naive solution could be:
// note that you may have to use other properties if the renderer is not fullscreen"
// like here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13542175/three-js-ray-intersect-fails-by-adding-div
var mouseX = ( event.clientX / window.innerWidth ) * 2 - 1;
var mouseY = -( event.clientY / window.innerHeight ) * 2 + 1;
var vector = new THREE.Vector3( mouseX, mouseY, camera.near );
// Convert the [-1, 1] screen coordinate into a world coordinate on the near plane
vector.unproject( camera );
var raycaster = new THREE.Raycaster( camera.position, vector.sub( camera.position ).normalize() );
// See if the ray from the camera into the world hits one of our meshes
var intersects = raycaster.intersectObjects( scene, true ); // true for recursive
// Toggle rotation bool for meshes that we clicked
if ( intersects.length > 0 ) {
var clickedObject = intersects[ 0 ].object;
// here, handle the clickedObject properties to react accordingly
// show an overlay, jump to a page, etc..
}

How can I make my text labels face the camera at all times? Perhaps using sprites?

I'm looking at two examples, one is canvas interactive objects and the other is mouse tooltip. I tried combining the two to generate text labels on each individual cube and here's what I have so far.
However, the text moves with the rotating cubes and the text appears backwards or sideways at times.
How can I make the text fixed in a sprite like in the mouse tooltip (http://stemkoski.github.io/Three.js/Mouse-Tooltip.html) example? I tried to incorporate the sprite but I kept getting errors. I'm not sure how to do it. Could you explain how I can go by it?
Thanks.
Here's my code so far:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>three.js canvas - interactive - cubes</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0">
<style>
body {
font-family: Monospace;
background-color: #f0f0f0;
margin: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script src="js/three.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/stats.min.js"></script>
<script>
var container, stats;
var camera, scene, projector, renderer;
var projector, mouse = { x: 0, y: 0 }, INTERSECTED;
var particleMaterial;
var currentLabel = null;
var objects = [];
init();
animate();
function init() {
container = document.createElement( 'div' );
document.body.appendChild( container );
var info = document.createElement( 'div' );
info.style.position = 'absolute';
info.style.top = '10px';
info.style.width = '100%';
info.style.textAlign = 'center';
info.innerHTML = 'three.js - clickable objects';
container.appendChild( info );
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 70, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 1, 10000 );
camera.position.set( 0, 300, 500 );
scene = new THREE.Scene();
var geometry = new THREE.CubeGeometry( 100, 100, 100 );
for ( var i = 0; i < 10; i ++ ) {
var object = new THREE.Mesh( geometry, new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { color: Math.random() * 0xffffff, opacity: 0.5 } ) );
object.position.x = Math.random() * 800 - 400;
object.position.y = Math.random() * 800 - 400;
object.position.z = Math.random() * 800 - 400;
object.scale.x = Math.random() * 2 + 1;
object.scale.y = Math.random() * 2 + 1;
object.scale.z = Math.random() * 2 + 1;
object.rotation.x = Math.random() * 2 * Math.PI;
object.rotation.y = Math.random() * 2 * Math.PI;
object.rotation.z = Math.random() * 2 * Math.PI;
object.label = "Object " + i;
scene.add( object );
objects.push( object );
}
var PI2 = Math.PI * 2;
particleMaterial = new THREE.ParticleCanvasMaterial( {
color: 0x000000,
program: function ( context ) {
context.beginPath();
context.arc( 0, 0, 1, 0, PI2, true );
context.closePath();
context.fill();
}
} );
projector = new THREE.Projector();
renderer = new THREE.CanvasRenderer();
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
container.appendChild( renderer.domElement );
stats = new Stats();
stats.domElement.style.position = 'absolute';
stats.domElement.style.top = '0px';
container.appendChild( stats.domElement );
document.addEventListener( 'mousedown', onDocumentMouseDown, false );
//
window.addEventListener( 'resize', onWindowResize, false );
}
function onWindowResize() {
camera.aspect = window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight;
camera.updateProjectionMatrix();
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
}
function onDocumentMouseDown( event ) {
event.preventDefault();
var vector = new THREE.Vector3( ( event.clientX / window.innerWidth ) * 2 - 1, - ( event.clientY / window.innerHeight ) * 2 + 1, 0.5 );
projector.unprojectVector( vector, camera );
var raycaster = new THREE.Raycaster( camera.position, vector.sub( camera.position ).normalize() );
var intersects = raycaster.intersectObjects( objects );
if ( intersects.length > 0 ) {
if ( intersects[ 0 ].object != INTERSECTED )
{
// restore previous intersection object (if it exists) to its original color
if ( INTERSECTED ) {
INTERSECTED.material.color.setHex( INTERSECTED.currentHex ); }
// store reference to closest object as current intersection object
INTERSECTED = intersects[ 0 ].object;
// store color of closest object (for later restoration)
INTERSECTED.currentHex = INTERSECTED.material.color.getHex();
// set a new color for closest object
INTERSECTED.material.color.setHex( 0xffff00 );
var canvas1 = document.createElement('canvas');
var context1 = canvas1.getContext('2d');
context1.font = "Bold 40px Arial";
context1.fillStyle = "rgba(255,0,0,0.95)";
context1.fillText(INTERSECTED.label, 0, 50);
// canvas contents will be used for a texture
var texture1 = new THREE.Texture(canvas1)
texture1.needsUpdate = true;
var material1 = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( {map: texture1, side:THREE.DoubleSide } );
material1.transparent = true;
var mesh1 = new THREE.Mesh(
new THREE.PlaneGeometry(canvas1.width, canvas1.height),
material1
);
mesh1.position = intersects[0].point;
if (currentLabel)
scene.remove(currentLabel);
scene.add( mesh1 );
currentLabel = mesh1;
}
else // there are no intersections
{
// restore previous intersection object (if it exists) to its original color
if ( INTERSECTED ) {
console.log("hello");
INTERSECTED.material.color.setHex( INTERSECTED.currentHex );
}
// remove previous intersection object reference
// by setting current intersection object to "nothing"
INTERSECTED = null;
mesh1 = null;
mesh1.position = intersects[0].point;
scene.add( mesh1 );
}
//var particle = new THREE.Particle( particleMaterial );
//particle.position = intersects[ 0 ].point;
//particle.scale.x = particle.scale.y = 8;
//scene.add( particle );
}
/*
// Parse all the faces
for ( var i in intersects ) {
intersects[ i ].face.material[ 0 ].color.setHex( Math.random() * 0xffffff | 0x80000000 );
}
*/
}
//
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame( animate );
render();
stats.update();
}
var radius = 600;
var theta = 0;
function render() {
theta += 0.1;
camera.position.x = radius * Math.sin( THREE.Math.degToRad( theta ) );
camera.position.y = radius * Math.sin( THREE.Math.degToRad( theta ) );
camera.position.z = radius * Math.cos( THREE.Math.degToRad( theta ) );
camera.lookAt( scene.position );
renderer.render( scene, camera );
}
</script>
</body>

Billboarding is easy. All you have to do, in your case, is add this inside your render loop:
if ( currentLabel ) currentLabel.lookAt( camera.position );