A growing collection of useful helpers and abstractions for react-three-fiber, saving you some boilerplate.
If you find yourself repeating set-up code often and if it's generic enough, add it here, everyone benefits!
npm install drei
import { ... } from 'drei'
For examples of drei in action, visit https://drei.react-spring.io/
Or, run the demo storybook on your computer:
git clone https://github.com/react-spring/drei
cd drei
npm install
npm run storybook
A responsive THREE.PerspectiveCamera that can set itself as the default.
<PerspectiveCamera
makeDefault // Registers it as the default camera system-wide (default=false)
{...props} // All THREE.PerspectiveCamera props are valid
>
<mesh />
</PerspectiveCamera>
A responsive THREE.OrthographicCamera that can set itself as the default.
If available controls have damping enabled by default, they manage their own updates, remove themselves on unmount, are compatible with the invalidateFrameloop canvas-flag. They inherit all props from their underlying THREE controls.
Buffer-geometry short-cuts:
<Plane args={[2, 2]} />
<Sphere>
<meshBasicMaterial attach="material" color="hotpink" />
</Sphere>
A box buffer geometry with rounded corners, done with extrusion.
<RoundedBox
args={[1, 1, 1]} // Width, Height and Depth of the box
radius={0.05} // Border-Radius of the box
smoothness={4} // Optional, number of subdivisions
{...meshProps} // All THREE.Mesh props are valid
>
<meshPhongMaterial attach="material" color="#f3f3f3" wireframe />
</RoundedBox>
Hi-quality text rendering w/ signed distance fields (SDF) and antialiasing, using troika-3d-text. All of troikas props are valid!
<Text
color="black" // default
anchorX="center" // default
anchorY="middle" // default
>
hello world!
</Text>
Renders a THREE.Line2.
<Line
points={[[0, 0, 0], ...]} // Array of points
color="black" // Default
lineWidth={1} // In pixels (default)
dashed={false} // Default
vertexColors={[[0, 0, 0], ...]} // Optional array of RGB values for each point
{...lineProps} // All THREE.Line2 props are valid
{...materialProps} // All THREE.LineMaterial props are valid
/>
A wrapper around THREE.LOD (Level of detail).
<Detailed
distances={[0, 10, 20]} // Camera distances, correspends to the # of the children
{...props} // All THREE.LOD props are valid
>
<mesh geometry={highDetail} />
<mesh geometry={mediumDetail} />
<mesh geometry={lowDetail} />
</Detailed>
A wrapper around THREE.PositionalAudio. Add this to groups or meshes to tie them to a sound that plays when the camera comes near.
<PositionalAudio
url="/sound.mp3" // Url of the sound file
distance={1} // Camera distance (default=1)
loop // Repat play (default=true)
{...props} // All THREE.PositionalAudio props are valid
/>
Standard Effects has been removed from drei in favour of (react-spring/react-postprocessing)[https://github.com/react-spring/react-postprocessing]
Adds a <Plane /> that always faces the camera.
<Billboard
follow={true} // Follow the camera (default=true)
lockX={false} // Lock the rotation on the x axis (default=false)
lockY={false} // Lock the rotation on the y axis (default=false)
lockZ={false} // Lock the rotation on the z axis (default=false)
/>
This material makes your geometry wobble and wave around. It was taken from the threejs-examples and adapted into a self-contained material.
<mesh>
<boxBufferGeometry attach="geometry" />
<MeshWobbleMaterial
attach="material"
factor={1} // Strength, 0 disables the effect (default=1)
speed={10} // Speed (default=1)
/>
</mesh>
This material makes your geometry distort following simplex noise.
<mesh>
<boxBufferGeometry attach="geometry" />
<MeshDistortMaterial
attach="material"
distort={1} // Strength, 0 disables the effect (default=1)
speed={10} // Speed (default=1)
/>
</mesh>
Adds a sky to your scene.
<Sky
distance={450000} // Camera distance (default=450000)
sunPosition={[0, 1, 0]} // Sun position normal (default=[0, 1, 0])
{...props} // All three/examples/jsm/objects/Sky props are valid
/>
Adds a blinking shader-based starfield to your scene.
<Stars
radius={100} // Radius of the inner sphere (default=100)
depth={50} // Depth of area where stars should fit (default=50)
count={5000} // Amount of stars (default=5000)
factor={4} // Size factor (default=4)
saturation={0} // Saturation 0-1 (default=0)
fade // Faded dots (default=false)
/>
Injects percent closer soft shadows (pcss) into threes shader chunk.
softShadows({
frustrum: 3.75, // Frustrum width (default: 3.75)
size: 0.005, // World size (default: 0.005)
near: 9.5, // Near plane (default: 9.5)
samples: 17, // Samples (default: 17)
rings: 11, // Rings (default: 11)
})
Creates a THREE.ShaderMaterial for you with easier handling of uniforms, which are also automatically declared as setter/getters on the object.
import { extend } from "react-three-fiber"
import glsl from "babel-plugin-glsl/macro"
const ColorShiftMaterial = shaderMaterial(
{ time: 0, color: new THREE.Color(0.2, 0.0, 0.1) },
// vertex shader
glsl`
varying vec2 vUv;
void main() {
vUv = uv;
gl_Position = projectionMatrix * modelViewMatrix * vec4(position, 1.0);
}
`,
// fragment shader
glsl`
uniform float time;
uniform vec3 color;
varying vec2 vUv;
void main() {
gl_FragColor.rgba = vec4(0.5 + 0.3 * sin(vUv.yxx + time) + color, 1.0);
}
`
)
extend({ ColorShiftMaterial })
<mesh>
<colorShiftMaterial attach="material" color="hotpink" time={1} />
Allows you to tie HTML content to any object of your scene. It will be projected to the objects whereabouts automatically.
<Html
prepend // Project content behind the canvas (default: false)
center // Adds a -50%/-50% css transform (default: false)
fullscreen // Aligns to the upper-left corner, fills the screen (default:false)
scaleFactor={10} // If set (default: undefined), children will be scaled by this factor, and also by distance to a PerspectiveCamera.
zIndexRange={[100, 0]} // Z-order range (default=[16777271, 0])
portal={domnodeRef} // Reference to target container (default=undefined)
{...groupProps} // All THREE.Group props are valid
{...divProps} // All HTMLDivElement props are valid
>
<h1>hello</h1>
<p>world</p>
</Html>
Easily add reflection to any object
<Reflector>
<planeBufferGeometry args={[2, 5]} attach="geometry" />
</Reflector>
A cheap canvas-texture-based circular gradient.
<Shadow
color="black" // Color (default:black)
colorStop={0} // First gradient-stop (default:0)
opacity={0.5} // Alpha (default:0.5)
fog={false} // Reacts to fog (default=false)
/>
Adds stats to document.body. It takes over the render-loop!
<Stats
showPanel={0} // Start-up panel (default=0)
className="stats" // Optional className to add to the stats container dom element
{...props} // All stats.js props are valid
/>
You can choose to mount Stats to a different DOM Element - for example, for custom styling:
const node = useRef(document.createElement('div'))
useEffect(() => {
node.current.id = 'test'
document.body.appendChild(node.current)
return () => document.body.removeChild(node.current)
}, [])
return <Stats parent={parent} />
A very fast, but often good-enough bounds-only raycast for meshes. You can use this if performance has precidence over pointer precision.
<mesh raycast={meshBounds} />
A hook for the rare case when you are using non-default cameras for heads-up-displays or portals, and you need events/raytracing to function properly (raycasting uses the default camera otherwise).
<mesh raycast={useCamera(customCamera)} />
A hook for a quick way to add helpers to existing nodes in the scene. It handles removal of the helper on unmount and auto-updates it by default.
const mesh = useRef()
useHelper(mesh, BoxHelper, 'cyan')
This hook calculates aspect ratios (for now only what in css would be image-size: cover is supported). You can use it to make an image fill the screen. It is responsive and adapts to viewport resize. Just give the hook the image bounds in pixels. It returns an array: [width, height, 1].
const scale = useAspect(
"cover", // Aspect ratio: cover | ... more to come, PR's welcome ;)
1024, // Pixel-width
512, // Pixel-height
1 // Optional scaling factor
)
return (
<mesh scale={scale}>
<planeBufferGeometry />
<meshBasicMaterial map={imageTexture} />
This hook mutates a mesh geometry using three's Subdivision modifier.
👉 Vertex count is quadrupled for each subdivision.
const meshRef = useSubdivision(4)
return (
<mesh ref={meshRef}>
<boxBufferGeometry args={[10, 10]} />
</mesh>
)
This hook mutates a mesh geometry using three's Simplification modifier.
👉 The simplification code is based on this algorithm.
const meshRef = useSimplification(0.5) // the vertices will be halved
return (
<mesh ref={meshRef}>
<octahedronBufferGeometry args={[2, 5]} />
</mesh>
)
This hook mutates a mesh geometry using three's Tessellation modifier. It will break-up faces withe edge longer than the maxEdgeLength parameter.
const meshRef = useTessellation(
2, // passes - number of times the geometry will be subdivided
8, // maxEdgeLength - faces with edges longer than this number will be broken up
)
return (
<mesh ref={meshRef}>
<octahedronBufferGeometry args={[2, 2]} />
</mesh>
)
A convenience hook that uses useLoader, GLTFLoader and draco:
useGLTFLoader(
url,
true // use draco binaries in /draco-gltf/
)
useGLFTLoader(
url,
'/my-draco-binaries' // use draco binaries from a custom path
)
A convenience hook that uses useLoader and TextureLoader
const texture = useTextureLoader(url)
const [texture1, texture2] = useTextureLoader([texture1, texture2])
A convenience hook that uses useLoader and CubeTextureLoader
const envMap = useCubeTextureLoader(
['px.png', 'nx.png', 'py.png', 'ny.png', 'pz.png', 'nz.png'],
{ path: 'cube/' }
)
Adds the Draco extension to your GLTFLoader, to be used in conjuction with useLoader and GLTFLoader when more control is needed.
useLoader(
GLTFLoader,
url,
draco(
'/draco-gtltf/' // Path to the Draco binaries (default='/draco-gtltf/')
)
)
A convenience hook that wraps THREE.DefaultLoadingManager's progress status.
function Loader() {
const { active, progress, errors, item, loaded, total } = useProgress()
return <Html center>{progress} % loaded</Html>
}
<Suspense fallback={<Loader />}>
<AsyncModels />
</Suspense>
If you don't want your progress component to re-render on all changes you can be specific as to what you need, for instance if the component is supposed to collect errors only. Look into zustand for more info about selectors.
const errors = useProgress(state => state.errors)
👉 Note that your loading component does not have to be a suspense fallback. You can use it anywhere, even in your dom tree, for instance for overlays.
A quick and easy loading overlay component that you can drop on top of your canvas. It will show an animated loadingbar and a percentage.
<Canvas>
<Suspense fallback={null}>
<AsyncModels />
</Suspense>
</Canvas>
<Loader />
You can override styles, too.
<Loader
containerStyles={...container} // Flex layout styles
innerStyles={...inner} // Inner container styles
barStyles={...bar} // Loading-bar styles
dataStyles={...data} // Text styles
dataInterpolation={(p) => `Loading ${p.toFixed(2)}%`} // Text
initialState={(active) => active} // Initial black out state
>
Loads matcap textures from this repository: https://github.com/emmelleppi/matcaps
(It is a fork of this repository: https://github.com/nidorx/matcaps)
const [matcap, url] = useMatcapTexture(
0, // index of the matcap texture https://github.com/emmelleppi/matcaps/blob/master/matcap-list.json
1024 // size of the texture ( 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 )
)
return (
...
<meshMatcapMaterial matcap={matcap} />
...
)
👉 You can also use the exact name of the matcap texture, like so:
const [matcap] = useMatcapTexture("3E2335_D36A1B_8E4A2E_2842A5");
👉 Use the url to download the texture when you are ready for production!
Loads normal textures from this repository: https://github.com/emmelleppi/normal-maps
const [normalMap, url] = useNormalTexture(
1, // index of the normal texture - https://github.com/emmelleppi/normal-maps/blob/master/normals.json
// second argument is texture attributes
{
offset: [0, 0],
repeat: [normRepeat, normRepeat],
anisotropy: 8
}
)
return (
...
<meshStandardMaterial normalMap={normalMap} />
...
)
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