# Texture Constants

## Mapping Modes

`THREE.UVMapping THREE.CubeReflectionMapping THREE.CubeRefractionMapping THREE.EquirectangularReflectionMapping THREE.EquirectangularRefractionMapping THREE.SphericalReflectionMapping THREE.CubeUVReflectionMapping THREE.CubeUVRefractionMapping`

These define the texture's mapping mode.
[page:Constant UVMapping] is the default, and maps the texture using the mesh's UV coordinates.
The rest define environment mapping types.
[page:Constant CubeReflectionMapping] and [page:Constant CubeRefractionMapping] are for use with a [page:CubeTexture CubeTexture], which is made up of six textures, one for each face of the cube. [page:Constant CubeReflectionMapping] is the default for a [page:CubeTexture CubeTexture].
[page:Constant EquirectangularReflectionMapping] and [page:Constant EquirectangularRefractionMapping] are for use with an equirectangular environment map. Also called a lat-long map, an equirectangular texture represents a 360-degree view along the horizontal centerline, and a 180-degree view along the vertical axis, with the top and bottom edges of the image corresponding to the north and south poles of a mapped sphere.
[page:Constant SphericalReflectionMapping] is for use with a spherical reflection map such as may be obtained by cropping a photograph of a mirrored ball. Sphere maps will be rendered "facing" the camera, irrespective of the position of the camera relative to the cubemapped object or surface.
See the [example:webgl_materials_envmaps materials / envmaps] example.

## Wrapping Modes

`THREE.RepeatWrapping THREE.ClampToEdgeWrapping THREE.MirroredRepeatWrapping`

These define the texture's [page:Texture.wrapS wrapS] and [page:Texture.wrapT wrapT] properties, which define horizontal and vertical texture wrapping.
With [page:constant RepeatWrapping] the texture will simply repeat to infinity.
[page:constant ClampToEdgeWrapping] is the default. The last pixel of the texture stretches to the edge of the mesh.
With [page:constant MirroredRepeatWrapping] the texture will repeats to infinity, mirroring on each repeat.

## Magnification Filters

`THREE.NearestFilter THREE.LinearFilter`

For use with a texture's [page:Texture.magFilter magFilter] property, these define the texture magnification function to be used when the pixel being textured maps to an area less than or equal to one texture element (texel).
[page:constant NearestFilter] returns the value of the texture element that is nearest (in Manhattan distance) to the specified texture coordinates.
[page:constant LinearFilter] is the default and returns the weighted average of the four texture elements that are closest to the specified texture coordinates, and can include items wrapped or repeated from other parts of a texture, depending on the values of [page:Texture.wrapS wrapS] and [page:Texture.wrapT wrapT], and on the exact mapping.

## Minification Filters

`THREE.NearestFilter THREE.NearestMipmapNearestFilter THREE.NearestMipmapLinearFilter THREE.LinearFilter THREE.LinearMipmapNearestFilter THREE.LinearMipmapLinearFilter`

For use with a texture's [page:Texture.minFilter minFilter] property, these define the texture minifying function that is used whenever the pixel being textured maps to an area greater than one texture element (texel).
In addition to [page:constant NearestFilter] and [page:constant LinearFilter], the following four functions can be used for minification:
[page:constant NearestMipmapNearestFilter] chooses the mipmap that most closely matches the size of the pixel being textured and uses the [page:constant NearestFilter] criterion (the texel nearest to the center of the pixel) to produce a texture value.
[page:constant NearestMipmapLinearFilter] chooses the two mipmaps that most closely match the size of the pixel being textured and uses the [page:constant NearestFilter] criterion to produce a texture value from each mipmap. The final texture value is a weighted average of those two values.
[page:constant LinearMipmapNearestFilter] chooses the mipmap that most closely matches the size of the pixel being textured and uses the [page:constant LinearFilter] criterion (a weighted average of the four texels that are closest to the center of the pixel) to produce a texture value.
[page:constant LinearMipmapLinearFilter] is the default and chooses the two mipmaps that most closely match the size of the pixel being textured and uses the [page:constant LinearFilter] criterion to produce a texture value from each mipmap. The final texture value is a weighted average of those two values.
See the [example:webgl_materials_texture_filters materials / texture / filters] example.

## Types

`THREE.UnsignedByteType THREE.ByteType THREE.ShortType THREE.UnsignedShortType THREE.IntType THREE.UnsignedIntType THREE.FloatType THREE.HalfFloatType THREE.UnsignedShort4444Type THREE.UnsignedShort5551Type THREE.UnsignedShort565Type THREE.UnsignedInt248Type`

For use with a texture's [page:Texture.type type] property, which must correspond to the correct format. See below for details.
[page:constant UnsignedByteType] is the default.

## Formats

`THREE.AlphaFormat THREE.RGBFormat THREE.RGBAFormat THREE.LuminanceFormat THREE.LuminanceAlphaFormat THREE.RGBEFormat THREE.DepthFormat THREE.DepthStencilFormat`

For use with a texture's [page:Texture.format format] property, these define how elements of a 2d texture, or *texels*, are read by shaders.
[page:constant AlphaFormat] discards the red, green and blue components and reads just the alpha component.
[page:constant RGBFormat] discards the alpha components and reads the red, green and blue components.
[page:constant RGBAFormat] is the default and reads the red, green, blue and alpha components.
[page:constant LuminanceFormat] reads each element as a single luminance component. This is then converted to a floating point, clamped to the range [0,1], and then assembled into an RGBA element by placing the luminance value in the red, green and blue channels, and attaching 1.0 to the alpha channel.
[page:constant LuminanceAlphaFormat] reads each element as a luminance/alpha double. The same process occurs as for the [page:constant LuminanceFormat], except that the alpha channel may have values other than *1.0*.
[page:constant RGBEFormat] is identical to [page:constant RGBAFormat].
[page:constant DepthFormat] reads each element as a single depth value, converts it to floating point, and clamps to the range [0,1]. This is the default for [page:DepthTexture DepthTexture].
[page:constant DepthStencilFormat] reads each element is a pair of depth and stencil values. The depth component of the pair is interpreted as in [page:constant DepthFormat]. The stencil component is interpreted based on the depth + stencil internal format.
Note that the texture must have the correct [page:Texture.type type] set, as described above. See [link:https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/WebGLRenderingContext/texImage2D WebGLRenderingContext.texImage2D] for details.

## DDS / ST3C Compressed Texture Formats

`THREE.RGB_S3TC_DXT1_Format THREE.RGBA_S3TC_DXT1_Format THREE.RGBA_S3TC_DXT3_Format THREE.RGBA_S3TC_DXT5_Format`

For use with a [page:CompressedTexture CompressedTexture]'s [page:Texture.format format] property, these require support for the [link:https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/extensions/WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc/ WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc] extension.
There are four [link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression S3TC] formats available via this extension. These are:
[page:constant RGB_S3TC_DXT1_Format]: A DXT1-compressed image in an RGB image format.
[page:constant RGBA_S3TC_DXT1_Format]: A DXT1-compressed image in an RGB image format with a simple on/off alpha value.
[page:constant RGBA_S3TC_DXT3_Format]: A DXT3-compressed image in an RGBA image format. Compared to a 32-bit RGBA texture, it offers 4:1 compression.
[page:constant RGBA_S3TC_DXT5_Format]: A DXT5-compressed image in an RGBA image format. It also provides a 4:1 compression, but differs to the DXT3 compression in how the alpha compression is done.

## PVRTC Compressed Texture Formats

`THREE.RGB_PVRTC_4BPPV1_Format THREE.RGB_PVRTC_2BPPV1_Format THREE.RGBA_PVRTC_4BPPV1_Format THREE.RGBA_PVRTC_2BPPV1_Format`

For use with a [page:CompressedTexture CompressedTexture]'s [page:Texture.format format] property, these require support for the [link:https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/extensions/WEBGL_compressed_texture_pvrtc/ WEBGL_compressed_texture_pvrtc] extension.
PVRTC is typically only available on mobile devices with PowerVR chipsets, which are mainly Apple devices.
There are four [link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVRTC PVRTC] formats available via this extension. These are:
[page:constant RGB_PVRTC_4BPPV1_Format]: RGB compression in 4-bit mode. One block for each 4×4 pixels.
[page:constant RGB_PVRTC_2BPPV1_Format]: RGB compression in 2-bit mode. One block for each 8×4 pixels.
[page:constant RGBA_PVRTC_4BPPV1_Format]: RGBA compression in 4-bit mode. One block for each 4×4 pixels.
[page:constant RGBA_PVRTC_2BPPV1_Format]: RGBA compression in 2-bit mode. One block for each 8×4 pixels.

## ETC Compressed Texture Format

`THREE.RGB_ETC1_Format`

For use with a [page:CompressedTexture CompressedTexture]'s [page:Texture.format format] property, these require support for the [link:https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/extensions/WEBGL_compressed_texture_etc1/ WEBGL_compressed_texture_etc1] extension.

## Encoding

`THREE.LinearEncoding THREE.sRGBEncoding THREE.GammaEncoding THREE.RGBEEncoding THREE.LogLuvEncoding THREE.RGBM7Encoding THREE.RGBM16Encoding THREE.RGBDEncoding THREE.BasicDepthPacking THREE.RGBADepthPacking`

For use with a Texture's [page:Texture.encoding encoding] property.
If the encoding type is changed after the texture has already been used by a material, you will need to set [page:Material.needsUpdate Material.needsUpdate] to *true* to make the material recompile.
[page:constant LinearEncoding] is the default. Values other than this are only valid for a material's map, envMap and emissiveMap.

## Source

[link:https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/master/src/constants.js src/constants.js]