- 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development: A must-read book to be comfortable with 3D maths. by @ZPostFacto & @Ian-Parberry
- Physically Based Rendering - From Theory to Implementation: A reference in term of PBR concepts. A gold mine. by @mmp, @wjakob & @humper
- The Nature of Code: Amazing book by a very funny author about a bunch of stuff to make experiences more natural based on the Processing language by @shiffman
- ThreeJS Journey: A great course accessible for the most beginner programmer who wants to learn how to make ThreeJS 3D experiences from scratch. by @bruno_simon
- The Easiest Way to Learn GLSL by @iced_coffee_dev
- The Book of Shaders: A reference on the road to master shaders. And it's free. by @patriciogv
- ThreeJS Fundamentals
- Shaderific for OpenGL: Documentation on GLSL
- GLSL documentation
- Explaining Homogeneous Coordinates & Projective Geometry: A very comprehensive article on homogeneous coordinates and projective geometry (To finally understand what is the 4th coordinate (w) in your vertex shaders)
- Surface Sampling in Three.js: A comprehensive article about MeshSurfaceSampler
- How to Create a Fake 3D Image Effect with WebGL: A good article to learn how to add a fake depth to a 2D image in ThreeJS.
- Tutorial on Matrices: A limpid tutorial to understand shader projection, view and model matrices (visually impactful)
- Real-time rendering of water caustics Clever approach to caustics rendering
- Realtime fluid simulation Awesome article for the ones that want to create truly realistic water
- generative artistry tutorials: Really awesome evolutive tutorial to acquire some knowledge on Generative Art by @rumyra & @tholman
- same.energy: Visual search engine by keyword or picture (a bit like Pinterest)
- Pinterest: Good source of inspiration
- ShaderToy: Prepare to be blown away by this shader sharing platform.
- ShaderShop videos: Some awesome videos about ShaderShop and more. by @mandy3284
- Poliigon: Assets for 3D artists (Textures, Models, HDRI)
- Poly Haven: Public CC0 3D Asset Library (Textures, Models, HDRI)
- 3D textures: Free PBR textures with Diffuse, Normal, Displacement, Occlusion, Specularity and Roughness Maps.
- Arroway Textures: Digital textures for 3D rendering and real-time use.
- ambientCG: - CC0 textures for Physically Based Rendering
- Signal shaping functions: A useful set of signal shaping patterns (to convert into GLSL) by @iquilezles
- Shaping functions: Awesome set of shaping functions for shaders by @golan
- Cheat sheet on curves: A quick reminder on how to make some signal patterns by @kyndinfo
- GLSL Noises: Noises coded by others so you can use them directly in your shaders for cool effects (included: Perlin noises)
- Realistic water shader There are also some links with explanation of the approach
- Polygonjs: Node-based WebGL design tool, used for procedural geometry, particles, materials and animation.
- Blender: Free and powerful to create your own 3D assets. A lot of export file extensions are available.
- Houdini: To create procedural 3D assets. The free licence "Houdini Apprentice" can be used to learn (no commercial usage)
- Spline: A promising tool for 3D modeling, collaboratively.
- HDRI-to-CubeMap: A tool to convert your HDRI file into a Cube map that can be load as a CubeTexture in ThreeJS. by @matheowis
- GraphToy: Powerful tool to wrap your head around and test shaping signals in GLSL by @iquilezles
- ShaderShop editor: Visually impactful editor to work on shaping signals, by drag and dropping patterns. (Mindblowingly awesome) by @mandy3284
- codesandbox: Sandbox to experiment and share with people. ThreeJS template can be easily found.
- codepen: Found it hard to configure for ThreeJS x Typescript, but a good sandbox to try out new things.
- threejs-editor: A nice tool to, for example, try out your Blender exports and how they will react in ThreeJS.
- vercel: Easy tool to host your projects, and free for a personal/hobbyist type of projects.
- react-three-fiber: A declarative way of handling your ThreeJS stuff for React by @pmndrs
- drei: Useful helpers for react-three-fiber by @pmndrs
- angular-three: Declarative ThreeJS inspired by r3f for the Angular ecosystem by @nartc
- threlte: A three.js component library for Svelte.
- svelte-cubed: Declarative ThreeJS for Svelte by @Rich-Harris
- Three-mesh-bvh Highly effective way to check for collisions
- Pathfinging.js Useful library with tons of settings
- Three-pathfinging Three.js plugin for navigation
- Kompute Easy to use steering library
- ossos A complete character skinning & animation library for the web
- mannequin.js Library for procedural character generation. Armature included
- fft-ocean Fast Fourier Transform ocean rendering for Three.js
- skunami.js Marvellous project with realistic water interaction
- Shallow water Demo project that shows water ripple effect
- Axis-Aligned Bounding Boxes AABB based collision detection
- Raycast based Collision detection
- Stackoverflow ThreeJS: Forum where you can ask your questions ( be sure to search well before)
- Official ThreeJS Discord
- Official ThreeJS Forum
- Official Slack
- Official Twitter
- Official Reddit
Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.
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