Learn Three.js - Third Edition

Creating a particle system from a PLY model

Working with the PLY format isn't that much different than the other formats. You include the loader, provide a callback function, and visualize the model. For this last example, however, we're going to do something different. Instead of rendering the model as a mesh, we'll use the information from this model to create a particle system (see the 15-load-ply.html example). The following screenshot shows this example:

The JavaScript code to render the preceding screenshot is actually very simple; it is as follows:

loader.load("../../assets/models/carcloud/carcloud.ply", function (geometry) { var material ...