A material for a use with a [page:Sprite].
const map = new THREE.TextureLoader().load( 'textures/sprite.png' );
const material = new THREE.SpriteMaterial( { map: map, color: 0xffffff } );
const sprite = new THREE.Sprite( material );
sprite.scale.set(200, 200, 1)
scene.add( sprite );
[example:webgl_raycast_sprite WebGL / raycast / sprite]
[example:webgl_sprites WebGL / sprites]
[example:svg_sandbox SVG / sandbox]
[page:Object parameters] - (optional) an object with one or more properties defining the material's appearance.
Any property of the material (including any property inherited from [page:Material]) can be passed in here.
The exception is the property [page:Hexadecimal color], which can be passed in as a hexadecimal
string and is *0xffffff* (white) by default. [page:Color.set]( color ) is called internally.
SpriteMaterials are not clipped by using [page:Material.clippingPlanes].
See the base [page:Material] class for common properties.
The alpha map is a grayscale texture that controls the opacity across the surface
(black: fully transparent; white: fully opaque). Default is null.
Only the color of the texture is used, ignoring the alpha channel if one exists.
For RGB and RGBA textures, the [page:WebGLRenderer WebGL] renderer will use the
green channel when sampling this texture due to the extra bit of precision provided
for green in DXT-compressed and uncompressed RGB 565 formats. Luminance-only and
luminance/alpha textures will also still work as expected.
[page:Color] of the material, by default set to white (0xffffff). The [page:.map] is mutiplied by the color.
The texture map. Default is null.
The rotation of the sprite in radians. Default is 0.
Whether the size of the sprite is attenuated by the camera depth. (Perspective camera only.) Default is *true*.
See the base [page:Material] class for common methods.
[link:https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/master/src/[path].js src/[path].js]