Renderers

Earlier, we switched from CanvasRenderer to WebGLRenderer in order to support shadows and fog. As a rule of thumb, WebGLRenderer is faster and has the most features, while CanvasRenderer has fewer features but broader browser support. One particularly nice feature of WebGLRenderer is that it supports antialiasing to smooth out jagged edges. We can enable this for our cityscape by passing the option in to the renderer constructor:

renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({antialias: true});

With that, our cityscape is finally complete, as shown in the next screenshot:

A completed city

Three.js has several other renderers, most notably for CSS and SVG. These can be found in the examples/js/renderers folder and are available as THREE.CSS3DRenderer and THREE.SVGRenderer, respectively, if their eponymous files are included in your HTML document. These renderers have a smaller set of supported features and are not as widely used, so they are not included in the main library, but they can be useful...