HYPER3D WebGL Renderer

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This version of Hyper3D is no longer developed. ~~Meanwhile, Hyper3D 3, the completely overhauled WebGL framework, is being developed here!~~

HYPER3D is a high-end (unofficial) renderer for three.js.

Features

Modern rendering engine
- Physically based rendering
- Roughness-metallic material workflow with support for custom shaders
- High dynamic range rendering
- High-quality post-effects
Development support
- Includes TypeScript definition
- Integrated GPU Profiler

More features are coming! See Roadmap.

Supported three.js Objects

Following three.js objects can safely be used with Hyper3D.

Mesh, SkinnedMesh
Points
Geometry, BufferGeometry
- Current limitation: when using a Geometry, calling dispose() on it doesn't reclaim memory.
PerspectiveCamera
AmbientLight, DirectionalLight, PointLight
- Current limitation: semantics of PointLight's parameters differs significantly. Recommended to use Hyper.PointLight instead for future compatibility.
- Current limitation: shadowBias and shadowMapSize is hardcoded.
- Shadow can be rendered by setting castShadow to true. However, most parameters related to the shadow rendering are computed automatically and cannot be overrided.
- shadowDarkness is not supported because it doesn't have a physical meaning.
Texture, CubeTexture
- Current limitation 1: texture parameters are not respected
- Current limitation 2: compressed textures are not supported
MeshBasicMaterial, MeshPhongMaterial
- Current limitation: transparency is not supported at all. Vertex color is not supported.
- Colored specular reflection, wireframe, lightMap, aoMap is not supported. Wireframe is not supported.
- specularMap is treated as a roughness map.
- Environment maps are not supported. Use Hyper.ReflectionProbe instead.
- Most of the properties defined in the base class Material are not supported.
PointsMaterial
- Current limitation 1: transparency is not supported at all. Vertex color is not supported.
- Current limitation 2: sizeAttenuation is ignored and the point size is always specified in the world-space coordinate system.

Hyper3D-specific Objects

Hyper.WebGLHyperRenderer
Hyper.ReflectionProbe (inherits from THREE.Object3D)
- Current limitation: positional probe is not supported.
Hyper.Material
- Current limitation: transparency is not supported at all. discard; still works
- This class allows you to write a custom shader that generates material parameters like m_albedo and m_roughness. This itself cannot be used as a material. It should be instantiated by creating Hyper.MaterialInstance.
Hyper.MaterialInstance (inherits from THREE.Material)
Hyper.PointLight (inherits from THREE.PointLight)
- Current limitation: sized lights are not supported.

Building

Before building Hyper3D, the following programs must be installed:

The latest version of Node.js

Prepare

# Clone the repository (you can just download ZIP instead)
git clone https://github.com/Hyper3D/hyper3d.git
cd hyper3d

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Download TypeScript definitions
npm run-script tsd-install

Build as standalone JS library

npm run-script build

hyper3d.js and hyper3d.min.js are generated in the build directory. You can use them like this:

<script type="application/javascript" src="three.min.js"></script>
<script type="application/javascript" src="hyper3d.min.js"></script>

Build as npm package

If you intend to use Hyper3D on Browserify-based apps, you might want a npm package instead of a simple JS file. In this case, run the following command:

npm run-script lib

# ..or, rebuild automatically whenever a source file was modified
# npm run-script watch

After running these command this library can be used in your project by using npm link.

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome. Feel free to talk to the developers.

License

MIT.