Threejs: assign different colors to each vertex in a geometry

Question

I want to do picking via IdMapping in Three.js

Because of performance issues I only have one huge geometry, computed like this:

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Answer 1

This code should work for three.js v49, creating an RGB color cube.

(Related to How to change face color in Three.js)

// this material causes a mesh to use colors assigned to vertices
var vertexColorMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { vertexColors: THREE.VertexColors } );

var color, point, face, numberOfSides, vertexIndex;

// faces are indexed using characters
var faceIndices = [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' ];

var size = 100;
var cubeGeometry = new THREE.CubeGeometry( size, size, size );

// first, assign colors to vertices as desired
for ( var i = 0; i < cubeGeometry.vertices.length; i++ ) 
{
    point = cubeGeometry.vertices[ i ];
    color = new THREE.Color( 0xffffff );
    color.setRGB( 0.5 + point.x / size, 0.5 + point.y / size, 0.5 + point.z / size );
    cubeGeometry.colors[i] = color; // use this array for convenience
}

// copy the colors to corresponding positions 
//     in each face's vertexColors array.
for ( var i = 0; i < cubeGeometry.faces.length; i++ ) 
{
    face = cubeGeometry.faces[ i ];
    numberOfSides = ( face instanceof THREE.Face3 ) ? 3 : 4;
    for( var j = 0; j < numberOfSides; j++ ) 
    {
        vertexIndex = face[ faceIndices[ j ] ];
        face.vertexColors[ j ] = cubeGeometry.colors[ vertexIndex ];
    }
}

cube = new THREE.Mesh( cubeGeometry, vertexColorMaterial );