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@readyplayerme/web-3d-viewer
Advanced tools
web-3d-viewer is a collection of components for showcasing Ready Player Me avatars and 3D on the web!
Built with three.js, react-three-fiber, drei, three-stdlib and react.
web-3d-viewer is available as an npm package.
npm install @readyplayerme/web-3d-viewer
You can find all code examples of the components and their documentation on our GitHub page.
Here is the first one to get you started:
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { Avatar } from '@readyplayerme/web-3d-viewer';
const modelSrc = 'https://readyplayerme.github.io/web-3d-viewer/male.glb';
function App() {
return (
<Avatar modelSrc={modelSrc} />
);
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.querySelector('#app'));
Props such as modelSrc, animationSrc, poseSrc and onLoadedAnimation.src are validated before rendering on the scene.
Animation source props support both .glb and .fbx formats. All other props mentioned before only support .glb.
Examples on supported resource formats:
/headwear.glbhttps://readyplayerme.github.io/web-3d-viewer/male.glb?queryParams=alloweddata:application/octet-stream;base64data:model/gltf-binary;base64model/gltf-binaryweb-3d-viewer is MIT licensed.
FAQs
Easily display Player_Zero avatars and 3D on the web.
We found that @readyplayerme/web-3d-viewer demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 22 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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