React Three Fiber shaders

Select the shader path

Inspect installed Fiber, Drei, Three.js, and renderer versions first. The example uses Fiber 9 / React 19 and WebGL. Preserve an existing project's versions.

• Use built-in materials when their properties express the effect. For custom WebGL shading, use Drei shaderMaterial or a native <shaderMaterial>.
• WebGPU uses node materials and TSL; GLSL ShaderMaterial and onBeforeCompile are not portable to it. Read WebGPU and TSL only when that renderer is relevant.
• A shader is not automatically lit, shadowed, fogged, instanced, or skinned. Choose the required features before replacing a built-in material.

Animated WebGL material

Mount beneath Canvas. Keep the material class and extend call outside render; the local component avoids global JSX augmentation.

import { useRef } from 'react'
import { extend, useFrame } from '@react-three/fiber'
import { shaderMaterial } from '@react-three/drei'
import { Color } from 'three'