Within the code snippet below, I am displaying some cubes and illuminating them with a PointLight and AmbientLight. Strangely, when the AmbientLight is set to 0xffffff, it changes the side colors to white regardless of their assigned colors. The point light, however, is functioning as expected.
Is there a way to make the ambient light behave like the point light? Meaning, it should not wash out the face colors but simply illuminate them. For example, setting the ambient light to 0xffffff should have the same effect as having multiple point lights at full intensity around the object.
$(function(){
var camera, scene, renderer;
var airplane;
var fuselage;
var tail;
init();
animate();
function init() {
scene = new THREE.Scene();
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 35, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.1, 10000 );
camera.position.z = 2;
airplane = new THREE.Object3D();
fuselage = newCube(
{x: 1, y: 0.1, z: 0.1},
{x: 0, y: 0, z: 0},
[0xffff00, 0x808000, 0x0000ff, 0xff00000, 0xffffff, 0x808080],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
);
airplane.add(fuselage);
tail = newCube(
{x: 0.15, y: 0.2, z: 0.05},
{x: 0.5, y: 0.199, z: 0},
[0xffff00, 0x808000, 0x0000ff, 0xff00000, 0xffffff, 0x808080],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
);
airplane.add(tail);
scene.add( airplane );
var ambientLight = new THREE.AmbientLight(0xffffff);
scene.add(ambientLight);
var pointLight = new THREE.PointLight(0x888888);
pointLight.position.x = 100;
pointLight.position.y = 100;
pointLight.position.z = 100;
scene.add(pointLight);
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setClearColorHex(0x000000, 1);
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
document.body.appendChild( renderer.domElement );
}
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame( animate );
render();
}
function render() {
airplane.rotation.x += 0.005;
airplane.rotation.y += 0.01;
renderer.render( scene, camera );
}
});
function newCube(dims, pos, cols, colAss){
var mesh;
var geometry;
var materials = [];
geometry = new THREE.CubeGeometry( dims.x, dims.y, dims.z );
for (var i in cols){
materials[i] = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial( { color: cols[i], overdraw: true } );
}
geometry.materials = materials;
for (var i in colAss){
geometry.faces[i].materialIndex = colAss[i];
}
mesh = new THREE.Mesh( geometry, new THREE.MeshFaceMaterial( materials ) );
mesh.position = pos;
return mesh;
}