Question

I just created a random mesh using Blender and I want to export it to be used in HTML5 via the Three.js. I haven’t seen any decent tutorials that shows how to do this. Can anyone help me out with this? I just want the 3D Mesh to display in the web, no animations included. Thanks!

Answer 1

The easiest way I found after many searches and trial and error was Three.ColladaLoader. Place your .dae files in a folder titled models in your /root directory. I found the Blender JSON exporter less reliable. Call the PinaCollada function from within the init() function, somthing like this:

function init(){
    scene = new THREE.scene;
    ...
    var object1 = new PinaCollada('model1', 1);
    scene.add(object1); 
    var object2 = new PinaCollada('model2', 2);
    scene.add(object2); 
    ...
}

function PinaCollada(modelname, scale) {
    var loader = new THREE.ColladaLoader();
    var localObject;
    loader.options.convertUpAxis = true;
    loader.load( 'models/'+modelname+'.dae', function colladaReady( collada ) {
        localObject = collada.scene;
        localObject.scale.x = localObject.scale.y = localObject.scale.z = scale;
        localObject.updateMatrix();
    } );
    return localObject;
}