A-Frame Low Poly

Low poly add-ons for a-frame virtual reality models. View the aframe low-poly demo »

Take any existing a-frame primitive, such as a-sphere and replace the prefix to obtain a low-poly version, such as lp-sphere. For example, the below is a low-poly sphere for a tree's foliage:

<lp-sphere color="#59810C" max-amplitude="0.2" position="0 0.6 0"></lp-sphere>

The above spheres are used in the demo pictured below at aaalv.in/vr/low-poly-trees. For more, see aaalv.in/vr

Usage

Looks like what you need? To get started, include the minified javascript in your a-frame project.

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/alvinwan/[email protected]/dist/aframe-low-poly.min.js"></script>

Low-Poly Attributes

Every low-poly object supports the following attributes. Modify the following attributes just like you would any other AFrame VR attribute:

max-amplitude: <x double> <y double> <z double>

min-amplitude: <x double> <y double> <z double>

Maximum and minimum amount of perturbation allowed for each vertex. The vertex will not be moved more or less than this amount away from the original position.

Example:

<lp-plane max-amplitude="1 0 0" min-amplitude="0.5 0 0"></lp-plane>

seed

Seed for random-number generator, allowing you to fix randomness during design.

max-amplitude-difference: <x double> <y double> <z double> coming soon

min-amplitude-difference: <x double> <y double> <z double> coming soon

Maximum and minimum difference in perturbation between adjacent points. For now, use the curvature specification below to achieve a similar effect.

Terrain

LowPolyTerrain.registerCurvature(componentName, function({x, y, z}, {xmin, ymin, zmin}, {xmax, ymax, zmax})

Allows you to specify curvature of the surface. Function that accepts the vertex's original position and outputs the vertex's new position. This is applied before customizable randomization. All random perturbations are applied to the vertex's new position.

Example:

LowPolyTerrain.registerCurvature('sine', function (vertex, min, max) {
    var py = (vertex.y - min.y) / (max.y - min.y);
    var z = Math.sin(py * 2 * Math.PI) + min.z;
    return {x: vertex.x, y: vertex.y, z: z}
});

Cloning

clone=<selector>

Duplicate entire entities without repeating common HTML. For example, say you have a template tree and many trees in your environment. Simply create one tree, and use the clone attribute for the rest, changing the position and rotating as necessary. This keeps your code streamlined and eases development (e.g., changing tree trunks for all cloned trees involves a single-line change)

Example:

<a-entity id="tree" ... ></a-entity>
<a-entity clone="#tree"></a-entity>

Projects

Projects that use aframe-low-poly:

• Ergo (aaalv.in/ergo): an endless runner game
• Tree Editor (trees.aaalv.in): a simplistic low-poly tree editor
• Tree Carousel (aaalv.in/vr/low-poly-trees): a demo carousel for low-poly trees