Three.js: Best Importer - FAQ fill request

[jfpferreira]

Description of the problem

In the FAQ section of the documentation, there is this question:

Which Import Format/Exporter is best supported?

This question intrigued me, since there are so many available importers, so I tried to search for an answer to this question. After browsing a bit I saw that there were a couple of them available:

• https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/issues/580
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11243689/preferred-3d-model-format-of-three-js

But these are a bit outdated, dating as far as 7 years ago. So I would like to know the answer to this question, and if possible, have this section of the documentation filled.

I think having this question filled, would also be valuable for a lot of developers using this library.

Three.js version

• [x] Dev
• [ ] r90
• [ ] ...

Browser

• [x] All of them
• [ ] Chrome
• [ ] Firefox
• [ ] Internet Explorer

OS

• [x] All of them
• [ ] Windows
• [ ] macOS
• [ ] Linux
• [ ] Android
• [ ] iOS

Hardware Requirements (graphics card, VR Device, ...)

[Mugen87]

@looeee has written an interesting post in the forum some time ago. Maybe we can use this as a basis in order to answer the question.

https://discourse.threejs.org/t/advise-a-newbie-on-applications-that-can-be-used-to-prepare-models/899/2

Since "Which Import Format/Exporter is best supported?" is still marked as a todo, i'll consider this issue as a feature request.

[Mugen87]

We rephrased the question and added an answer. I hope new user are now pointed to the right direction.