Advanced Materials

Types of advanced materials

In this lesson, we’ll look at the more advanced materials Three.js has to offer. We’ll look at the following materials: 

• THREE.MeshLambertMaterial: This is a material for rough-looking surfaces.

• THREE.MeshPhongMaterial: This is a material for shiny-looking surfaces.

• THREE.MeshToonMaterial: This renders the mesh in a cartoon-like fashion.

• THREE.ShadowMaterial: This is a material that only shows shadows cast on it; the material is otherwise transparent.

• THREE.MeshStandardMaterial: This is a versatile material that can be used to represent many different kinds of surfaces.

• THREE.MeshPhysicalMaterial: This is similar to THREE.MeshStandardMaterial but provides additional properties for more real-world-like surfaces.

• THREE.ShaderMaterial: This is a material where we can define for ourselves how to render the object by writing our own shaders. ...