Three.js Cookbook

Rotating an object around its own axis

There are many ways in which you can change the appearance of a mesh. For example, you can change its position, scale, or material. Often, you'll also need to change the rotation of THREE.Mesh. In this first recipe on rotation, we'll show you the simplest way to rotate an arbitrary mesh.

Getting ready

To rotate a mesh, we first need to create a scene that contains an object you can rotate. For this recipe, we provide an example, 02.01-rotate-around-axis.html, that you can open in your browser. When you open this recipe, you'll see something similar to the following screenshot in your browser:

In this demo, you ...