Learn React VR (Chapter 5 | Star Wars Modeling)

Prerequisites

Chapter 1 | Hello Virtual World
Chapter 2 | Panoramic Road Trip
Chapter 3 | Outdoor Movie Theater
Chapter 4 | Transitions and Animations

Browser Note

At the time this chapter was released, Mozilla Nightly started having all sorts of issues rendering my VR apps. I have switched to using an experimental build of Chrome. You can learn more about that here.

Scope of This Chapter

So far, we have only been rendering 2D text and buttons within our virtual world. In this chapter, we are going to cover rendering 3D models within our virtual world.

To be more specific, we are going to start off focusing on how to render pre-existing 3D models and properties that we can control.

Then, we will look into how to do animation with 3D models.

Finally, we are going to look into how you can create your own 3D models from scratch. As a heads up, 3D modeling is a big topic and could be its own separate book. Therefore, I will be writing more along the lines of pointing you in the right direction than an in-depth tutorial.