// Cloned by Thunder 3  on 9 Nov 2018 from World "One Cube World" by Starter user 
// Please leave this clone trail here.
 

const skycolor          = 'Blue';          // sky color

const objectsize        = 300;                  // size of object   

const startRadius       = 1000;                 // distance from centre we start the camera at

const maxRadius         = startRadius * 10;     // maximum distance from camera we render things 

const skycolorObject    = new THREE.Color ( skycolor.toLowerCase() );                              


function World() 
{ 
  // the object is a cube (each dimension equal): 
  var shape             = new THREE.BoxGeometry ( objectsize, objectsize, 100);
  var theobject         = new THREE.Mesh ( shape );

 const texturefile  = "/uploads/starter/earth.1.jpg";
 var   loader       = new THREE.TextureLoader();
 
 loader.load ( texturefile, function ( thetexture ) 
 // this defines a function to be called whenever the file is loaded 
    {                    
        thetexture.minFilter  = THREE.LinearFilter;
        theobject.material    = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial ( { map: thetexture } );
    }); 
        

}