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Create Floating Hearts 3D model in Three.JS and React Three Fiber

What is Three.JS?

Three.JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library and API used to create and display animated 3D graphics in Web browsers.

Three.JS allows the creation of GPU-accelerated 3D animations using the JavaScript language without relying on plugins

What is React Three Fiber?

react-three-fiber is a React renderer for Three.JS that has no additional overhead. Components participate in a unified render loop outside of React. It outperforms Three.JS at scale due to React’s scheduling abilities.

Set up

There are a lot of dependencies for this:

yarn add three @react-three/fiber @react-three/drei @react-three/postprocressing
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Build the canvas

The Canvas object is where you start to define your React Three Fiber Scene.

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In the code above, I just created a canvas with has configured camera and shadows

Lights and Shadows

Inside the canvas, we need the lights and the shadows, so our models will have their shadows, and look bright

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Create the Hearts

First, we have to create the heart shape:

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Then multiply it with different factors and speed:

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Because we want our hearts to float, we are going to set their position with useFrame

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Finally, we will cast the hearts with Instances and put it to the Canvas above

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Lastly, we need some effects

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Conclusion

The results:

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Live demo: https://threejs-floating-hearts.vercel.app/

Source code: https://github.com/leduc1901/threejs-floating-hearts

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maxdevjs

Visually appealing postπŸ˜€

P.S.: Live demo returns 404

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Duc Le

Sorry for wrong link, can you try again ? I just edited

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maxdevjs

πŸ™ˆ for the late reply! Indeed, it is working now :)
Can I ask which OS do you use and how Three.JS runs on it?

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Duc Le

I'm using MacOS and Windows, both run pretty good

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maxdevjs

I suspected it... on Linux every intensive graphic content is a painful experience with Chrome and Firefox (!). Surprisingly, with Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi it is way better πŸ€”

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Very Informative and Helpful

πŸ‘‰ Checkout my Blog too at dev.to/lovepreetsingh/what-is-dock...

πŸ“ And please provide any improvements