Importing model into three.js - performance

Question

Is there a good/recommended approach regarding performance to load a 3D model from file to be used in a three.js JavaScript application (especially where the model is genera

Answer 1

I've had some experience with this kind of problem. The issue here is that you model most likely has a lot of points/polygons. So no matter what format you use every point and face of your model has to be described. This ensures a large file size and there is no way around it.

My solution was to look at Blender rather than Three.js and optimise my models. There are a ton of posts on this topic (e.g. here, here, and here). After learning more about how Blender works, I was able to reduce most of my 4-8 Mb meshes down to < 200kb each without noticable degradation to the objects rendered in the browser.