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Expose the objects holding constants

See original GitHub issue

It’s useful for editors & data files to be able to enumerate constants. So instead of having "wrapS" : 1000 you can write "wrapS" : "RepeatWrapping", or if you want to construct a drop down for all the different texture filter modes etc. What seems to be the best approach at the moment is to copy & paste TEXTURE_FILTER, I think it would be better if they were just exported as is instead. Not only is it a whole lot cleaner than copy & paste, but it also guarantees that they’re in sync if new ones ever gets added or if it’s changed.

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donmccurdycommented, Nov 13, 2019

I guess @Sairony is asking for all constants to be scoped under a particular namespace for their purpose. For example:

THREE.Mapping.UV
THREE.Mapping.CUBE_REFLECTION
THREE.Mapping.EQUIRECTANGULAR_REFLECTION
...
THREE.Wrapping.REPEAT
THREE.Wrapping.CLAMP_TO_EDGE
THREE.Wrapping.MIRRORED_REPEAT

From that perspective, the user can enumerate the choices in a dropdown with Object.keys(THREE.Wrapping) rather than having to maintain a matching list.

All else being equal I agree the scoped constants might be nice, but this seems like a major a hassle to change now, so I’m not sure we can justify moving all the constants.

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looeeecommented, Nov 14, 2019

I guess @Sairony is asking for all constants to be scoped under a particular namespace for their purpose.

Related: #12579, #12972

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