Custom Shader Material
Extend Three.js standard materials with custom vertex and fragment shaders for both vanilla and React environments.
What is Custom Shader Material?
Custom Shader Material is a Three.js library that allows developers to extend standard Three.js materials with custom vertex and fragment shaders. It solves the problem of wanting custom shader effects while retaining the lighting, roughness, transmission, and other properties of built-in materials like MeshPhysicalMaterial. Instead of creating a ShaderMaterial from scratch, developers can inject GLSL code into existing materials.
Three.js developers and creative coders who need custom shader effects but want to preserve standard material features, especially those working with React Three Fiber or vanilla Three.js projects.
Developers choose Custom Shader Material because it provides a clean, type-safe API for shader injection without losing Three.js' built-in material capabilities, offering a middle ground between standard materials and fully custom shaders.
Overview
🧩 Extend Three.js standard materials with your own shaders!
Use Cases
Best For
- Adding custom vertex animations to Three.js materials
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