# build-threejs-scroll-worlds

Builds scroll-controlled Three.js worlds that stay spatially continuous across authored chapters. Useful for interactive portfolios, product stories, exhibitions, and WebGL explainers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1500 installs · ★ 7001
- Author: MengTo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/web-design/build-threejs-scroll-worlds/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/build-threejs-scroll-worlds

## What it does

This skill builds one persistent Three.js world and uses native document scroll as its conductor. Camera composition, lighting, fog, materials, objects, DOM copy, and interaction focus can change from chapter to chapter while the spatial world stays alive. The result is real-time WebGL with actual geometry and interaction, not a video chain presented as Three.js.

The guidance covers a world bible, a scene ledger, and a persistent architecture with one renderer, a scene graph, interactive targets, atmosphere, and DOM above the canvas. Chapter data can hold camera endpoints, light and fog state, active interactions, asset dependencies, and responsive overrides. Check target devices, available models and textures, and the initial-load and total-download budgets before building; these constraints shape the world.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-threejs-scroll-worlds -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/build-threejs-scroll-worlds/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/build-threejs-scroll-worlds/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-threejs-scroll-worlds -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/build-threejs-scroll-worlds/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-threejs-scroll-worlds -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/build-threejs-scroll-worlds/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install MengTo/Skills build-threejs-scroll-worlds
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/build-threejs-scroll-worlds/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-threejs-scroll-worlds -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/MengTo/Skills --path agent-skills/web-design/build-threejs-scroll-worlds
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/build-threejs-scroll-worlds/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-threejs-scroll-worlds -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/web-design/build-threejs-scroll-worlds/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a scroll-driven 3D story across authored chapters
- tie camera and lighting changes to native scroll
- keep one spatial environment alive between scene compositions
- add raycast targets and interaction states
- turn a portfolio or product story into an interactive WebGL world

## Example prompts
- Build one continuous Three.js world where native document scroll moves through authored chapters and changes the camera, lighting, and DOM story.
- Create a scene ledger for an interactive portfolio with persistent geometry, raycast targets, asset dependencies, and responsive camera overrides.
- Decide whether this request needs one persistent WebGL world rather than a video sequence or separate scenes.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: build-threejs-scroll-worlds
description: Build rich, scroll-controlled real-time Three.js experiences as one persistent 3D world whose camera, lighting, atmosphere, materials, objects, DOM story, and interactions evolve across authored chapters. Use for 3D scrollytelling, scroll-driven WebGL worlds, camera journeys, interactive portfolios, product stories, exhibitions, explainers, game or film microsites, spatial narratives, and multi-scene websites where native scroll should travel through one continuous place. Not limited to landing pages.
---

# Build Three.js Scroll Worlds

Build one detailed real-time world and use native document scroll as its deterministic conductor. Keep the renderer, scene graph, and spatial continuity alive while camera composition, light, fog, animation, copy, and interaction focus move through authored chapters.

The mechanism is **one persistent Three.js world + one normalized reversible scroll state**. If removing either makes the experience collapse into stacked sections, this skill applies.

The exact [Kage demo](demo/index.html) proves the quality bar; it is staging, not a mandatory subject or layout. Use its detailed anatomy only when the requested direction benefits from it: [references/kage-anatomy.md](references/kage-anatomy.md).

## Route the request correctly

- Use `threejs` for a single interactive scene with no scroll-authored journey.
- Use `scroll-world-storytelling` when deciding between real-time 3D, pre-rendered video, and DOM-first storytelling.
- Use `scroll-scrubbed-visual-sequence` for a video or image sequence whose time is scrubbed by scroll.
- Use `cinematic-scroll-storytelling` for DOM-first GSAP/Lenis choreography.
- Use this skill when objects must remain truly spatial and interactive while scroll moves through several compositions in one live WebGL world.

Do not disguise a video as Three.js. The public [oso95/scroll-world](https://github.com/oso95/scroll-world) project, reviewed at commit `71cc36d`, is a strong reference for intake, scene ledgers, budget gates, mobile-specific composition, config-driven playback, and seam QA, but its renderer is a pre-generated video chain. This skill adopts those structural strengths while retaining real geometry, materials, lighting, raycasting, and camera control.

## Read the build references

Before implementing a new world, read:
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