Suggestion: Add list of external three.js plugins to documentation

For the most part three.js extensions are stored and maintained in the examples directory of this project and it wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of users think this is how new packages can or should be built to extend three.js. There are some benefits but more broadly it seems unsustainable because it more or less passes the burden of maintaining the packages onto the maintainers of this repo. There may be other reasons people can’t or don’t want to include their library in this project, too. I think it would be great to create a page documentation page that links to externally maintained libraries that plug into three.js (or even just can be used with three.js).

I think this would encourage people to make more packages and make other packages people do maintain more discoverable. This thread on SDF text rendering specifically is what prompted the idea. I was looking for a three.js-compatible SDF implementation awhile ago but I wasn’t able to find this. Even when you know what you want packages aren’t always so findable.

I think the page would ultimately just be a list of github repos to start with and an optional short description. If the list becomes long enough we could organize a bit more. I know I have some projects I’d add to the list.

[Fyrestar]

I’m not sure if that fits to this, but i’ve been recently working on a portal for THREE that should be ready soon, it’s basically similar to asset stores Unity or Unreal have, though without being focused on commercial items nor selling.

It’s rather to share projects, libraries, plugins, engines, examples, books and other resources around THREE at one spot, as currently everything outside the core is rather hidden. Submitted items only need to get reviewed, they can get reviews by user and a status, that can be suggested by users too, so items might be WIP, in active development, maintained or abandoned, which i think helps a lot making decisions as a lot projects been laying around untouched since months with no hint if it’s abandoned.

[marquizzo]

I see lots of people asking in the forums for “what physics engine should I use?” so I started gathering this list of physics libraries for that same reason. The problem is that it’s buried 9 comments deep in an obscure thread. Would be great to have something similar in a place with higher visibility, where everyone can contribute to it to keep it up to date.