Creating a scene

In the previous Chapter 1, Creating Your First 3D Scene with Three.js, you created THREE.Scene, so you already know the basics of Three.js. We saw that for a scene to show anything, we need four types of component:

Component	Description
Camera	This determines what is rendered on the screen.
Lights	These have an effect on how materials are shown and are used when creating shadow effects (discussed in detail in Chapter 3, Working with the Different Light Sources Available in Three.js).
Objects	These are the main objects that are rendered from the perspective of the camera, they include cubes, spheres, and point clouds.
Renderer	Uses the camera and the information from the scene to draw the output on the screen.

 

THREE.Scene serves as the container for the lights and the objects. THREE.Scene itself doesn't have that many options and functions.

Note

THREE.Scene is a structure that is sometimes also called a scene graph. A scene graph is a structure that can hold all the necessary information...