DOM2three

Render web page element into three.js meshes for 3d radness!

Basic usage

1. Saving your HTML layout

1. Create a HTML layout and include the dom2three.js onto the page with content you want to convert.

    <script src="dom2thee.js"></script>
   

2. Tag any elements which you would like created into a three.js mesh with a data-mesh attribute.

    <div id="example" data-mesh> Example element </div>
   

3. Run the gulp script on your project folder.

    gulp render yourproject/index.html
   

4. The gulp script will place all the necessary data files into a dom2three sub-folder.

2. Adding DOM2three elements to your three.js scene.

1. Include dom2three.js onto the page with your three.js scene. (step 1 above)

2. Call load with the dom2three data folder (step 4 above)

    var d23 = DOM2three.load('dom2three_dir')
   

   Load returns a promise once we are ready to go.

3. Retrieve a dom2three node and add the mesh to your three.js scene.

    d23.then( function() {
        var node = d23.getNodeById('example', true);
        scene.add( node.mesh );
    });
   

More usage notes

• Create dynamic text areas from HTML layouts by specifying data-textarea attributes. You'll also need to include what mesh hosts this textarea by specifying data-hostmesh='mesh-name'.

Gotcha's!

• Examples are not really real examples yet. It's what we need to for our project www.github.com/mozvr/HIRO. I will come up with basic examples that are more general purpose at a later date.

• We are using JADE + SASS to make it quick for us to generate templates, but standard HTML/CSS pages will work too.

• There's a few dependencies that need to be installed. We will need to create a isntall script to make this easier to work with.

  • Slimerjs
  • Imagemagick
  • Node.js