Coloring faces of a Three.js BoxGeometry

Question

I saw some solutions that accessed the THREE.BoxGeometry faces like that:

var geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(n,n,n)
let faces = geometry.faces;
for (let face of faces) {
  face.color.set(Math.random() * 0xffffff);
}

But it seems that the faces-array doesn't exist in the current Three.js version r129 (Uncaught TypeError: faces is not iterable).

How can I achieve an easy coloring of the six cube faces?

Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44828713/paint-cube-faces-as-a-whole-not-the-triangles-that-make-up-the-face-three-js ? My answer is from an older version (and the running example throws the warnings to prove it), but the concept still applies. — TheJim01, Jun 15 '21 at 19:25

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 15 '21 at 17:54

Try it like so:

let camera, scene, renderer, mesh;

init();
animate();

function init() {

    camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 70, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.01, 10 );
    camera.position.z = 1;

    scene = new THREE.Scene();

    const geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry( 0.2, 0.2, 0.2 ).toNonIndexed();
        
    // vertexColors must be true so vertex colors can be used in the shader
        
    const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { vertexColors: true } ); 
        
    // generate color data for each vertex
        
    const positionAttribute = geometry.getAttribute( 'position' );
        
    const colors = [];
    const color = new THREE.Color();
        
    for ( let i = 0; i < positionAttribute.count; i += 3 ) {
        
            color.set( Math.random() * 0xffffff );
            
            // define the same color for each vertex of a triangle
            
            colors.push( color.r, color.g, color.b );
            colors.push( color.r, color.g, color.b );
            colors.push( color.r, color.g, color.b );
        
    }
        
    // define the new attribute
        
    geometry.setAttribute( 'color', new THREE.Float32BufferAttribute( colors, 3 ) );

    mesh = new THREE.Mesh( geometry, material );
    scene.add( mesh );

    renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer( { antialias: true } );
    renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
    document.body.appendChild( renderer.domElement );

}

function animate() {

    requestAnimationFrame( animate );

    mesh.rotation.x += 0.01;
    mesh.rotation.y += 0.02;

    renderer.render( scene, camera );

}

body {
      margin: 0;
}

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/three@0.129.0/build/three.js"></script>

The previous geometry format was removed from the core with r125. More information in the following post at the three.js forum.

https://discourse.threejs.org/t/three-geometry-will-be-removed-from-core-with-r125/22401

Thank you - it works! This solution would never have occurred to me. — ironmouse, Jun 15 '21 at 20:31

Coloring faces of a Three.js BoxGeometry

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