Materials describe the appearance of objects. They are defined in a (mostly) renderer-independent way, so you don't have to rewrite materials if you decide to use a different renderer.

Constructor

Material()

Properties

# .id

# .name

# .opacity

Float in the range of 0.0 - 1.0 indicating how transparent the material is. A value of 0.0 indicates fully transparent, 1.0 is fully opaque. If transparent is not set to true for the material, the material will remain fully opaque and this value will only affect its color.

# .transparent

Defines whether this material is transparent. This has an effect on rendering as transparent objects need special treatment and are rendered after non-transparent objects. For a working example of this behaviour, check the WebGLRenderer code.
When set to true, the extent to which the material is transparent is controlled by setting opacity.

.blending

Which blending to use when displaying objects with this material. Default is NormalBlending. See the blending mode constants for all possible values.

.blendSrc

Blending source. It's one of the blending mode constants defined in Three.js. Default is SrcAlphaFactor. See the destination factors constants for all possible values.

# .blendDst

Blending destination. It's one of the blending mode constants defined in Three.js. Default is OneMinusSrcAlphaFactor.

# .blendEquation

Blending equation to use when applying blending. It's one of the constants defined in Three.js. Default is AddEquation.

# .depthTest

Whether to have depth test enabled when rendering this material. Default is true.

# .depthWrite

Whether rendering this material has any effect on the depth buffer. Default is true.

When drawing 2D overlays it can be useful to disable the depth writing in order to layer several things together without creating z-index artifacts.

# .polygonOffset

Whether to use polygon offset. Default is false. This corresponds to the POLYGON_OFFSET_FILL WebGL feature.

# .polygonOffsetFactor

# .polygonOffsetUnits

# .alphaTest

Sets the alpha value to be used when running an alpha test. Default is 0.

# .clippingPlanes

User-defined clipping planes specified as THREE.Plane objects in world space. These planes apply to the objects this material is attached to. Points in space whose dot product with the plane is negative are cut away. Default is null.

# .clipShadows

Defines whether to clip shadows according to the clipping planes specified on this material. Default is false.

# .overdraw

Amount of triangle expansion at draw time. This is a workaround for cases when gaps appear between triangles when using CanvasRenderer. 0.5 tends to give good results across browsers. Default is 0.

# .visible

# .side

Defines which of the face sides will be rendered - front, back or both.

# .needsUpdate

Specifies that the material needs to be updated at the WebGL level. Set it to true if you made changes that need to be reflected in WebGL.

This property is automatically set to true when instancing a new material.

Methods

EventDispatcher methods are available on this class.

# .clone ( material )

# .dispose ()

This disposes the material. Textures of a material don't get disposed. These needs to be disposed by Texture.

Material