Skills

Threejs Procedural Fields

Build coherent procedural scalar and vector fields for Three.js materials and geometry.

Install

npx skills add scottstts/Threejs-Awesome-Graphics-Agent-Skills --skill threejs-procedural-fields -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Engineering
Updated
13d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Lightabout 582 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Build coherent procedural scalar and vector fields for Three.js materials and geometry. Use for terrain, planets, wear, biomes, clouds, water masks, displacement, roughness, normals, domain warping, and any visual where several channels must derive from shared causes.

Procedural Fields

Do not start by stacking noise. Start by defining the fields the object physically or stylistically needs.

Field contract

Before shader code, write a field bundle:

coordinates
  → macro form
  → meso structure
  → derived causes
  → material channels

Example:

sphereDirection
  → warpedDirection
  → elevation + ridges + craterDepth
  → slope + cavity + latitude + moisture
  → biome + color + roughness + bump

Required workflow

  1. Choose coordinates that remain stable under camera and object motion.
  2. Lock real or perceptual scale for each frequency band.
  3. Create named primary fields. Never hide the whole look in one expression.
  4. Derive secondary fields from causes: slope from normals, shore from sea-level distance, wear from exposure, dirt from cavity.
  5. Reuse the same fields across color, roughness, normal, displacement, emission, and scattering.
  6. Add debug output for every named field.
  7. Filter high-frequency fields by derivatives, tessellation density, or camera distance.

Read references/field-stack-recipes.md before implementation. It records sphere, terrain, water, and structured-placement field contracts plus common parity defects.

Read the procedural planet surface for a shared CPU/GLSL field bundle whose height, continents, climate, biomes, roughness, and normals remain independently inspectable.

Non-negotiable rules

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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