Unexpected mesh results from ThreeCSG boolean operation

Question

I am creating a scene & have used a boolean function to cut out holes in my wall. However the lighting reveals that the resultant shapes have messed up faces. I want the surface to look like one solid piece, rather than fragmented and displaying lighting backwards. Does anyone know what could be going wrong with my geometry?

The code that booleans objects is as follows:

//boolean subtract two shapes, convert meshes to bsps, subtract, then convert back to mesh 

var booleanSubtract = function (Mesh1, Mesh2, material) {

    //Mesh1 conversion
    var mesh1BSP = new ThreeBSP( Mesh1 );

    //Mesh2 conversion
    var mesh2BSP = new ThreeBSP( Mesh2 );

    var subtract_bsp = mesh1BSP.subtract( mesh2BSP );
    var result = subtract_bsp.toMesh( material );
    result.geometry.computeVertexNormals();
    return result;
};

I have two lights in the scene:

        var light = new THREE.DirectionalLight( 0xffffff, 0.75 );
        light.position.set( 0, 0, 1 );
        scene.add( light );

        //create a point light
        var pointLight = new THREE.PointLight(0xFFFFFF);

        // set its position
        pointLight.position.x = 10;
        pointLight.position.y = 50;
        pointLight.position.z = 130;

        // add to the scene
        scene.add(pointLight);

EDIT: Using WestLangley's suggestion, I was able to partially fix the wall rendering. And by using material.wireframe=true; I can see that after the boolean operation my wall faces are not merged. Is there a way to merge them?

Answer 1

Your problems are due to two issues.

First, you should be using FlatShading.

Second, as explained in this stackoverflow post, MeshLambert material only calculates the lighting at each vertex, and interpolates the color across each face. MeshPhongMaterial calculates the color at each texel.

You need to use MeshPhongMaterial to avoid the lighting artifacts you are seeing.

three.js r.68