three-mesh-ui

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📢 7.x.x is in evaluation, check it out here https://github.com/felixmariotto/three-mesh-ui/pull/223

What is it ?

three-mesh-ui is a small library for building VR user interfaces. The objects it creates are three.object3Ds, usable directly in a three.js scene like any other Object3D.

It is not a framework, but a minimalist library to be used with the last version of three.js. It has no dependency but three.js.

Why ?

In a normal three.js workflow, the common practice is to build user interfaces with HTML/CSS.

In immersive VR, it is impossible, therefore this library was created.

Quick Start

Try it now

Give it a try in this jsFiddle

Using react-three-fiber ? Here is a codesandbox to get started.

Import

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#### With NPM
npm install three-mesh-ui
:warning: It requires three as peer dependency

##### ES6 (codesandbox demo)

``javascript
import ThreeMeshUI from 'three-mesh-ui'
`

##### CommonJS
`javascript
const ThreeMeshUI = require('three-mesh-ui');
`

##### HTML <script> tag (codesandbox demo)
`html






`
:muscle: You can use the minified version named __three-mesh-ui.module.min.js__ (codesandbox demo)




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#### HTML <script> tag (codesandbox demo)
`html



`
:muscle: You can use the minified version named __three-mesh-ui.min.js__ (codesandbox demo)
:warning: Although this would theorically allows you to build 'something', loading js libraries instead of using jsm, might restrict the global features you would have. This is true for both three and three-mesh-ui libraries.




Font files

In order to display some text with three-mesh-ui, you will need to provide font files.
You can use the two files named Roboto-msdf in this directory, or create your own font files

API

Here is an example of basic three-mesh-ui usage :

`javascript
const container = new ThreeMeshUI.Block({
width: 1.2,
height: 0.7,
padding: 0.2,
fontFamily: './assets/Roboto-msdf.json',
fontTexture: './assets/Roboto-msdf.png',
});

//

const text = new ThreeMeshUI.Text({
content: "Some text to be displayed"
});

container.add( text );

// scene is a THREE.Scene (see three.js)
scene.add( container );

// This is typically done in the render loop :
ThreeMeshUI.update();
``