Loading textures asynchronously
When you create Three.js scenes, you often need to load resources. There might be textures you want to load for your objects, you might have some external models you want to include in your scene, or maybe some CSV data that you want to use as an input for your visualization. Three.js offers a number of different ways of loading these resources asynchronously, which we'll explore in this and the following recipes.
To run these recipes and experiment with them, we included a simple sample in the source folder of this chapter that shows this loading in action. If you open an example 01.11-load-async-resources.html in your browser, and open the JavaScript console, you'll see the progress and the result of loading resources ...
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