Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

Rendering a three-dimensional model

Thanks mainly to the gaming community, tools to create and render three-dimensional models are both plentiful and free. For example, there is a whole community dedicated to creating new 3D Mobs models in Minecraft using the open source tool Blender (check out Blender 2.5 Materials and Textures Cookbook, also from Packt, at: https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/blender-25-materials-and-textures-cookbook). To render the models in the browser, we will be using a JavaScript library called three.js--see https://threejs.org/ for details, as well as Learning Three.js - the JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL - Second Edition, also from Packt (more details can be found at https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/learning-threejs-%E2%80%93-javascript-3d-library-webgl-second-edition ...