A Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) shader material.

Implements

Hierarchy

  • ShaderMaterial
    • SSAOMaterial

Implements

Constructors

Properties

Accessors

Methods

Constructors

  • Constructs a new SSAO material.

    Parameters

    • camera: Camera

      A camera.

    Returns SSAOMaterial

Properties

allowOverride: boolean

Whether it's possible to override the material with Scene#overrideMaterial or not.

Default

true
alphaHash: boolean

Enables alpha hashed transparency, an alternative to Material#transparent or Material#alphaTest. The material will not be rendered if opacity is lower than a random threshold. Randomization introduces some grain or noise, but approximates alpha blending without the associated problems of sorting. Using TAA can reduce the resulting noise.

Default

false
alphaToCoverage: boolean

Whether alpha to coverage should be enabled or not. Can only be used with MSAA-enabled contexts (meaning when the renderer was created with antialias parameter set to true). Enabling this will smooth aliasing on clip plane edges and alphaTest-clipped edges.

Default

false
blendAlpha: number

Represents the alpha value of the constant blend color.

This property has only an effect when using custom blending with ConstantAlpha or OneMinusConstantAlpha.

Default

0
blendColor: Color

Represents the RGB values of the constant blend color.

This property has only an effect when using custom blending with ConstantColor or OneMinusConstantColor.

Default

(0,0,0)
blendDst: BlendingDstFactor

Defines the blending destination factor.

Default

OneMinusSrcAlphaFactor
blendDstAlpha: BlendingDstFactor

Defines the blending destination alpha factor.

Default

null
blendEquation: BlendingEquation

Defines the blending equation.

Default

AddEquation
blendEquationAlpha: BlendingEquation

Defines the blending equation of the alpha channel.

Default

null
blendSrc: BlendingSrcFactor

Defines the blending source factor.

Default

SrcAlphaFactor
blendSrcAlpha: BlendingSrcFactor

Defines the blending source alpha factor.

Default

null
blending: Blending

Defines the blending type of the material.

It must be set to CustomBlending if custom blending properties like Material#blendSrc, Material#blendDst or Material#blendEquation should have any effect.

Default

NormalBlending
clipIntersection: boolean

Changes the behavior of clipping planes so that only their intersection is clipped, rather than their union.

Default

false
clipShadows: boolean

Defines whether to clip shadows according to the clipping planes specified on this material.

Default

false
clipping: boolean

Defines whether this material supports clipping; true to let the renderer pass the clippingPlanes uniform.

Default

false
clippingPlanes: Plane[]

User-defined clipping planes specified as THREE.Plane objects in world space. These planes apply to the objects this material is attached to. Points in space whose signed distance to the plane is negative are clipped (not rendered). This requires WebGLRenderer#localClippingEnabled to be true.

Default

null
colorWrite: boolean

Whether to render the material's color.

This can be used in conjunction with Object3D#renderOder to create invisible objects that occlude other objects.

Default

true
defaultAttributeValues: {
    color: [number, number, number];
    uv: [number, number];
    uv1: [number, number];
}

When the rendered geometry doesn't include these attributes but the material does, these default values will be passed to the shaders. This avoids errors when buffer data is missing.

  • color: [ 1, 1, 1 ]
  • uv: [ 0, 0 ]
  • uv1: [ 0, 0 ]

Type declaration

  • color: [number, number, number]
  • uv: [number, number]
  • uv1: [number, number]
defines: {
    [key: string]: any;
}

Defines custom constants using #define directives within the GLSL code for both the vertex shader and the fragment shader; each key/value pair yields another directive.

defines: {
FOO: 15,
BAR: true
}

Yields the lines:

#define FOO 15
#define BAR true

Type declaration

  • [key: string]: any
depthFunc: DepthModes

Defines the depth function.

Default

LessEqualDepth
depthTest: boolean

Whether to have depth test enabled when rendering this material. When the depth test is disabled, the depth write will also be implicitly disabled.

Default

true
depthWrite: boolean

Whether rendering this material has any effect on the depth buffer.

When drawing 2D overlays it can be useful to disable the depth writing in order to layer several things together without creating z-index artifacts.

Default

true
dithering: boolean

Whether to apply dithering to the color to remove the appearance of banding.

Default

false
extensions: {
    clipCullDistance: boolean;
    multiDraw: boolean;
}

This object allows to enable certain WebGL 2 extensions.

  • clipCullDistance: set to true to use vertex shader clipping
  • multiDraw: set to true to use vertex shader multi_draw / enable gl_DrawID

Type declaration

  • clipCullDistance: boolean
  • multiDraw: boolean
fog: boolean

Define whether the material color is affected by global fog settings; true to pass fog uniforms to the shader.

Default

false
forceSinglePass: boolean

Whether double-sided, transparent objects should be rendered with a single pass or not.

The engine renders double-sided, transparent objects with two draw calls (back faces first, then front faces) to mitigate transparency artifacts. There are scenarios however where this approach produces no quality gains but still doubles draw calls e.g. when rendering flat vegetation like grass sprites. In these cases, set the forceSinglePass flag to true to disable the two pass rendering to avoid performance issues.

Default

false
fragmentShader: string

Fragment shader GLSL code. This is the actual code for the shader.

glslVersion: GLSLVersion

Defines the GLSL version of custom shader code.

Default

null
index0AttributeName: string

If set, this calls [gl.bindAttribLocation]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRenderingContext/bindAttribLocation to bind a generic vertex index to an attribute variable.

Default

undefined
isMaterial: boolean

This flag can be used for type testing.

Default

true
isShaderMaterial: boolean

This flag can be used for type testing.

Default

true
lights: boolean

Defines whether this material uses lighting; true to pass uniform data related to lighting to this shader.

Default

false
linewidth: number

Controls line thickness or lines.

WebGL and WebGPU ignore this setting and always render line primitives with a width of one pixel.

Default

1
name: string

The name of the material.

opacity: number

Defines how transparent the material is. A value of 0.0 indicates fully transparent, 1.0 is fully opaque.

If the Material#transparent is not set to true, the material will remain fully opaque and this value will only affect its color.

Default

1
polygonOffset: boolean

Whether to use polygon offset or not. When enabled, each fragment's depth value will be offset after it is interpolated from the depth values of the appropriate vertices. The offset is added before the depth test is performed and before the value is written into the depth buffer.

Can be useful for rendering hidden-line images, for applying decals to surfaces, and for rendering solids with highlighted edges.

Default

false
polygonOffsetFactor: number

Specifies a scale factor that is used to create a variable depth offset for each polygon.

Default

0
polygonOffsetUnits: number

Is multiplied by an implementation-specific value to create a constant depth offset.

Default

0
precision: "highp" | "mediump" | "lowp"

Override the renderer's default precision for this material.

Default

null
premultipliedAlpha: boolean

Whether to premultiply the alpha (transparency) value.

Default

false
shadowSide: Side

Defines which side of faces cast shadows. If null, the side casting shadows is determined as follows:

  • When Material#side is set to FrontSide, the back side cast shadows.
  • When Material#side is set to BackSide, the front side cast shadows.
  • When Material#side is set to DoubleSide, both sides cast shadows.

Default

null
side: Side

Defines which side of faces will be rendered - front, back or both.

Default

FrontSide
stencilFail: StencilOp

Which stencil operation to perform when the comparison function returns false.

Default

KeepStencilOp
stencilFunc: StencilFunc

The stencil comparison function to use.

Default

AlwaysStencilFunc
stencilFuncMask: number

The bit mask to use when comparing against the stencil buffer.

Default

0xff
stencilRef: number

The value to use when performing stencil comparisons or stencil operations.

Default

0
stencilWrite: boolean

Whether stencil operations are performed against the stencil buffer. In order to perform writes or comparisons against the stencil buffer this value must be true.

Default

false
stencilWriteMask: number

The bit mask to use when writing to the stencil buffer.

Default

0xff
stencilZFail: StencilOp

Which stencil operation to perform when the comparison function returns true but the depth test fails.

Default

KeepStencilOp
stencilZPass: StencilOp

Which stencil operation to perform when the comparison function returns true and the depth test passes.

Default

KeepStencilOp
toneMapped: boolean

Defines whether this material is tone mapped according to the renderer's tone mapping setting.

It is ignored when rendering to a render target or using post processing or when using WebGPURenderer. In all these cases, all materials are honored by tone mapping.

Default

true
transparent: boolean

Defines whether this material is transparent. This has an effect on rendering as transparent objects need special treatment and are rendered after non-transparent objects.

When set to true, the extent to which the material is transparent is controlled by Material#opacity.

Default

false
type: string

The type property is used for detecting the object type in context of serialization/deserialization.

uniforms: {
    [uniform: string]: IUniform;
}

An object of the form:

{
"uniform1": { value: 1.0 },
"uniform2": { value: 2 }
}

specifying the uniforms to be passed to the shader code; keys are uniform names, values are definitions of the form

{
value: 1.0
}

where value is the value of the uniform. Names must match the name of the uniform, as defined in the GLSL code. Note that uniforms are refreshed on every frame, so updating the value of the uniform will immediately update the value available to the GLSL code.

Type declaration

  • [uniform: string]: IUniform
uniformsGroups: UniformsGroup[]

An array holding uniforms groups for configuring UBOs.

uniformsNeedUpdate: boolean

Can be used to force a uniform update while changing uniforms in Object3D#onBeforeRender.

Default

false
userData: Record<string, any>

An object that can be used to store custom data about the Material. It should not hold references to functions as these will not be cloned.

uuid: string

The UUID of the material.

version: number

This starts at 0 and counts how many times Material#needsUpdate is set to true.

Default

0
vertexColors: boolean

If set to true, vertex colors should be used.

The engine supports RGB and RGBA vertex colors depending on whether a three (RGB) or four (RGBA) component color buffer attribute is used.

Default

false
vertexShader: string

Vertex shader GLSL code. This is the actual code for the shader.

visible: boolean

Defines whether 3D objects using this material are visible.

Default

true
wireframe: boolean

Renders the geometry as a wireframe.

Default

false
wireframeLinewidth: number

Controls the thickness of the wireframe.

WebGL and WebGPU ignore this property and always render 1 pixel wide lines.

Default

1

Accessors

  • get alphaTest(): number
  • Sets the alpha value to be used when running an alpha test. The material will not be rendered if the opacity is lower than this value.

    Returns number

    Default

    0
    
  • set alphaTest(value): void
  • Parameters

    • value: number

    Returns void

  • get bias(): number
  • The depth bias. Range: [0.0, 1.0].

    Returns number

  • set bias(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: number

    Returns void

  • set depthBuffer(arg): void
  • The depth buffer.

    Parameters

    • arg: Texture

      The buffer.

    Returns void

  • set depthPacking(arg): void
  • The depth packing strategy.

    Parameters

    • arg: DepthPackingStrategies

      The depth packing strategy.

    Returns void

  • get distanceFalloff(): number
  • The occlusion distance falloff. Range: [0.0, 1.0].

    Returns number

  • set distanceFalloff(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: number

    Returns void

  • get distanceScaling(): boolean
  • Indicates whether distance-based radius scaling is enabled.

    Returns boolean

  • set distanceScaling(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: boolean

    Returns void

  • get distanceThreshold(): number
  • The occlusion distance threshold. Range: [0.0, 1.0].

    Returns number

  • set distanceThreshold(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: number

    Returns void

  • get fade(): number
  • The depth fade factor.

    Returns number

  • set fade(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: number

    Returns void

  • get intensity(): number
  • The intensity.

    Returns number

    Deprecated

    Use SSAOEffect.intensity instead.

  • set intensity(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: number

    Returns void

  • get minRadiusScale(): number
  • The minimum radius scale for distance scaling. Range: [0.0, 1.0].

    Returns number

  • set minRadiusScale(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: number

    Returns void

  • set needsUpdate(value): void
  • Setting this property to true indicates the engine the material needs to be recompiled.

    Parameters

    • value: boolean

    Returns void

    Default

    false
    
  • set noiseTexture(arg): void
  • The noise texture.

    Parameters

    • arg: Texture

      The texture.

    Returns void

  • set normalBuffer(arg): void
  • The normal buffer.

    Parameters

    • arg: Texture

      The buffer.

    Returns void

  • set normalDepthBuffer(arg): void
  • The combined normal-depth buffer.

    Parameters

    • arg: Texture

      The buffer.

    Returns void

  • get proximityFalloff(): number
  • The occlusion proximity falloff. Range: [0.0, 1.0].

    Returns number

  • set proximityFalloff(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: number

    Returns void

  • get proximityThreshold(): number
  • The occlusion proximity threshold. Range: [0.0, 1.0].

    Returns number

  • set proximityThreshold(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: number

    Returns void

  • get radius(): number
  • The occlusion sampling radius. Range: [0.0, 1.0].

    Returns number

  • set radius(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: number

    Returns void

  • get rings(): number
  • The sampling spiral ring count.

    Returns number

  • set rings(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: number

    Returns void

  • get samples(): number
  • The sample count.

    Returns number

  • set samples(arg): void
  • Parameters

    • arg: number

    Returns void

  • get worldDistanceFalloff(): number
  • The occlusion distance falloff in world units.

    Returns number

  • set worldDistanceFalloff(value): void
  • Parameters

    • value: number

    Returns void

  • get worldDistanceThreshold(): number
  • The occlusion distance falloff. The occlusion distance threshold in world units.

    Returns number

  • set worldDistanceThreshold(value): void
  • Parameters

    • value: number

    Returns void

  • get worldProximityFalloff(): number
  • The occlusion proximity falloff in world units.

    Returns number

  • set worldProximityFalloff(value): void
  • Parameters

    • value: number

    Returns void

  • get worldProximityThreshold(): number
  • The occlusion proximity threshold in world units.

    Returns number

  • set worldProximityThreshold(value): void
  • Parameters

    • value: number

    Returns void

Methods

  • Adds a listener to an event type.

    Type Parameters

    • T extends "dispose"

    Parameters

    • type: T

      The type of event to listen to.

    • listener: EventListener<{
          dispose: {};
      }[T], T, SSAOMaterial>

      The function that gets called when the event is fired.

    Returns void

  • Adopts the settings of the given camera.

    Parameters

    • camera: Camera

      A camera.

    Returns void

  • Returns a new material with copied values from this instance.

    Returns SSAOMaterial

    A clone of this instance.

  • Copies the values of the given material to this instance.

    Parameters

    • source: Material

      The material to copy.

    Returns SSAOMaterial

    A reference to this instance.

  • In case Material#onBeforeCompile is used, this callback can be used to identify values of settings used in onBeforeCompile(), so three.js can reuse a cached shader or recompile the shader for this material as needed.

    This method can only be used when rendering with WebGLRenderer.

    Returns string

    The custom program cache key.

  • Fire an event type.

    Type Parameters

    • T extends "dispose"

    Parameters

    • event: BaseEvent<T> & {
          dispose: {};
      }[T]

      The event that gets fired.

    Returns void

  • Frees the GPU-related resources allocated by this instance. Call this method whenever this instance is no longer used in your app.

    Returns void

    Fires

    Material#dispose

  • Returns the depth bias.

    Returns number

    The bias.

    Deprecated

    Use bias instead.

  • Returns the depth fade factor.

    Returns number

    The fade factor.

    Deprecated

    Use fade instead.

  • Returns the intensity.

    Returns number

    The intensity.

    Deprecated

    Use intensity instead.

  • Returns the minimum radius scale for distance scaling.

    Returns number

    The minimum radius scale.

    Deprecated

    Use minRadiusScale instead.

  • Returns the occlusion sampling radius.

    Returns number

    The radius.

    Deprecated

    Use radius instead.

  • Returns the amount of spiral turns in the occlusion sampling pattern.

    Returns number

    The radius.

    Deprecated

    Use rings instead.

  • Returns the amount of occlusion samples per pixel.

    Returns number

    The sample count.

    Deprecated

    Use samples instead.

  • Checks if listener is added to an event type.

    Type Parameters

    • T extends "dispose"

    Parameters

    • type: T

      The type of event to listen to.

    • listener: EventListener<{
          dispose: {};
      }[T], T, SSAOMaterial>

      The function that gets called when the event is fired.

    Returns boolean

  • Indicates whether distance-based radius scaling is enabled.

    Returns boolean

    Whether distance scaling is enabled.

    Deprecated

    Use distanceScaling instead.

  • An optional callback that is executed immediately before the shader program is compiled. This function is called with the shader source code as a parameter. Useful for the modification of built-in materials.

    This method can only be used when rendering with WebGLRenderer. The recommended approach when customizing materials is to use WebGPURenderer with the new Node Material system and [TSL]https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Three.js-Shading-Language.

    Parameters

    • parameters: WebGLProgramParametersWithUniforms
    • renderer: WebGLRenderer

      A reference to the renderer.

    Returns void

  • An optional callback that is executed immediately before the material is used to render a 3D object.

    This method can only be used when rendering with WebGLRenderer.

    Parameters

    • renderer: WebGLRenderer

      The renderer.

    • scene: Scene

      The scene.

    • camera: Camera

      The camera that is used to render the scene.

    • geometry: BufferGeometry<NormalBufferAttributes, BufferGeometryEventMap>

      The 3D object's geometry.

    • object: Object3D<Object3DEventMap>

      The 3D object.

    • group: Group<Object3DEventMap>

      The geometry group data.

    Returns void

  • Removes a listener from an event type.

    Type Parameters

    • T extends "dispose"

    Parameters

    • type: T

      The type of the listener that gets removed.

    • listener: EventListener<{
          dispose: {};
      }[T], T, SSAOMaterial>

      The listener function that gets removed.

    Returns void

  • Sets the depth bias.

    Parameters

    • value: number

      The bias.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use bias instead.

  • Sets the depth buffer.

    Parameters

    • buffer: Texture

      The depth texture.

    • Optional depthPacking: DepthPackingStrategies

      The depth packing strategy.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use depthBuffer and depthPacking instead.

  • Sets the occlusion distance cutoff.

    Parameters

    • threshold: number

      The distance threshold. Range [0.0, 1.0].

    • falloff: number

      The falloff. Range [0.0, 1.0].

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use distanceThreshold and distanceFalloff instead.

  • Enables or disables distance-based radius scaling.

    Parameters

    • value: boolean

      Whether distance scaling should be enabled.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use distanceScaling instead.

  • Sets the depth fade factor.

    Parameters

    • value: number

      The fade factor.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use fade instead.

  • Sets the intensity.

    Parameters

    • value: number

      The intensity.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use intensity instead.

  • Sets the minimum radius scale for distance scaling.

    Parameters

    • value: number

      The minimum radius scale.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use minRadiusScale instead.

  • Sets the noise texture.

    Parameters

    • value: Texture

      The texture.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use noiseTexture instead.

  • Sets the normal buffer.

    Parameters

    • value: Texture

      The buffer.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use normalBuffer instead.

  • Sets the combined normal-depth buffer.

    Parameters

    • value: Texture

      The buffer.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use normalDepthBuffer instead.

  • Sets the occlusion proximity cutoff.

    Parameters

    • threshold: number

      The range threshold. Range [0.0, 1.0].

    • falloff: number

      The falloff. Range [0.0, 1.0].

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use proximityThreshold and proximityFalloff instead.

  • Sets the occlusion sampling radius.

    Parameters

    • value: number

      The radius. Range [1e-6, 1.0].

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use radius instead.

  • Sets the amount of spiral turns in the occlusion sampling pattern.

    Parameters

    • value: number

      The radius.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use rings instead.

  • Sets the amount of occlusion samples per pixel.

    Parameters

    • value: number

      The sample count.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use samples instead.

  • Sets the size of this object.

    Parameters

    • width: number

      The width.

    • height: number

      The height.

    Returns void

  • Sets the texel size.

    Parameters

    • x: number

      The texel width.

    • y: number

      The texel height.

    Returns void

    Deprecated

    Use setSize() instead.

  • Parameters

    • Optional values: ShaderMaterialParameters

    Returns void

  • Parameters

    • Optional meta: JSONMeta

    Returns ShaderMaterialJSON