[react-native]: load GLTF model with bin file separately

[lexengineer]

Hello everyone 👋

So I am facing an issue when I try to load gltf model with standalone bin file using a GLTFLoader from Three.js within my react-native project, the error is the following:

THREE.GLTFLoader: Failed to load buffer model.bin

I assume this is because there is no ArrayBuffer within react-native environment and just wondering how to solve this, the only working solution I saw for so far is loading a glb model without textures, maybe it may work in the same way if gltf has no textures specified but why it complains about bin file then?

Any advice is appreciated, thank you 👍

[drcmda]

you cant use three loaders in react-native, they are all using dom apis, xhrrequests, etc. expo-gl has their own forks. if these understand gltf with separate assets i do not know, i would always pack them anyway.

[lexengineer]

Thank you!

But in general GLTFLoader works as expected inside react-native except this ArrayBuffer issue, for example I can load glb model without textures as well, probably will take a look into drei helpers for solution

[drcmda]

i can imagine, i think when all assets are packed it doesnt need to fetch them through dom apis. im not 100% since i dont use RN but im sure i have seen expo working on specific loaders.