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anthonylukach
Looks interesting. Is there any online examples of it in use?
ktpsns
After some clicking, via their github page:

https://cdn.rawgit.com/areknawo/ThreeMap/a76571ba/example/in...

However, doesn't look too impressive to me :-( (Firefox)

areknawo
Sorry for the inconvenience. I know that there are some issues with performance - antialiasing isn't fast enough (there are around 300k vertices in zoom 16 for example). I'll try to do better, as this is my first library too. Anyway, it is in early stages and working on, so expect updates in near future.
ktpsns
Probably I just suffer from a bug? https://imgur.com/a/KdRVofD looks like some textures were not loaded.
[dead] areknawo
Well, there are no textures. It's just MeshToonMaterial with vertex colors. If you mean the disappearing roads then it's either antialias turned off or not active logarithmic depth buffer. The only bug that I see is the performance (22 fps is really bad). I'll try to fix these issues as fast as I can. If you know ThreeJS - maybe have advice for me? For performance, I'm already utilizing WebWorkers and as for antialiasing (if fixing performance bug won't allow normal solution) maybe I'll try some FXAA...
bhouston
Maybe promote it once there are some working examples that are cool. Otherwise it is hard to get excited about just the idea of creating a library.
sghiassy
Example is in the README:

https://cdn.rawgit.com/areknawo/ThreeMap/a76571ba/example/in...

BugsJustFindMe
The example does nothing for me. Just a white page and errors in the browser console. That's not very compelling.
brianbterry
When I started (firefox) it was just a grey page with a frame rate graph in the top left. Turns out it started zoomed in way to far. Really cranking back on the scroll wheel revealed the map.
anigbrowl
Except it's zoomed in so far you can't see anything unless you zoom out, and then zooming out too far breaks it (chrome 66). That's why screenshots and explanatory text are good to have. I like it, it just feels not-quite-finished.