THEE.JSONLoader Object as public variable - json

Question

I was wondering if its possible to add an object that is loaded via THREE.JSONLoader as public variable? Ideally, I'd like all my loaded textures, material creation, and geometry to be public variables at the top of my script for easy manipulation (I have strong 3D background but new to js and webGL). I'm finding that my public vars that are declared something - are no longer public once they're added as a parameter to a function - in this case the JSONLoader. However, just naming a var, without declaring its value "runs" but I get weird THREE.min.js error I can't comprehend. I've included my code below - know it has other issues - please feel free to let me know how bad it is - it helps me learn :)
//webGL
var scene = new THREE.Scene();
var camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 75, window.innerWidth/window.innerHeight, 0.1, 1000 );
camera.position.set(0, 16, 25);
camera.rotation.x += -0.32;
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setSize( window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
document.body.appendChild( renderer.domElement );
cubeCamera = new THREE.CubeCamera(1, 1000, 256); // parameters: near, far, resolution
cubeCamera.renderTarget.texture.minFilter = THREE.LinearMipMapLinearFilter; // mipmap filter
scene.add(cubeCamera);
///LOADERS
var loadTexture = new THREE.TextureLoader();
var loaderJs = new THREE.JSONLoader();
///TEXTURES
var skyTexture = loadTexture.load("textures/background.jpg");
var seatTexture = loadTexture.load("textures/abc_Diffuse.jpg");
///MATERIALS
var skyMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
side: THREE.DoubleSide,
map: skyTexture
});
var frameMaterial = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({
//envMap: cubeCamera.renderTarget,
color: 0xffffff
});
var seatMaterial = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({
map: seatTexture
});
///GEOMETRY and MESHES
var frameGeo;
var skyGeo = new THREE.SphereGeometry(30, 30, 30);
var skySphere = new THREE.Mesh(skyGeo, skyMaterial);
scene.add(skySphere);
loaderJs.load("models/stoolFrame.js", function (){
frameGeo = new THREE.Mesh(frameGeo, frameMaterial);
frameGeo.scale.set(.5, .5, .5);
barStool.add(frameGeo);
});
loaderJs.load("models/stoolSeat.js", function (seatGeo){
seatGeo = new THREE.Mesh(seatGeo, seatMaterial);
seatGeo.scale.set(.5, .5, .5);
barStool.add(seatGeo);
});
var barStool = new THREE.Object3D();
scene.add(barStool);
var render = function () {
requestAnimationFrame(render);
barStool.rotation.y += 0.01;
frameGeo.visible = false;
cubeCamera.position.copy(frameGeo.position);
cubeCamera.updateCubeMap(renderer, scene);
frameGeo.visible = true;
renderer.render(scene, camera);
};
render();

Answer 1

When loading your stoolFrame, you forgot to add the parameters for the callback function, check the documentation example. The callback function takes a geometry and a material. When loading the stoolSeat you forgot the material aswell (provided you have a material for the stool)
var frameGeometry;
var frameMaterial;
var frameMesh;
loaderJs.load("models/stoolFrame.js", function (geometry, material){
frameGeometry = geometry;
frameMaterial = material
frameMesh = new THREE.Mesh(frameGeometry, frameMaterial);
frameMesh.scale.set(.5, .5, .5);
barStool.add(frameMesh);
});
Above is an example on how to make the geometry, material and mesh into global variables. However you probably dont need to save the geometry and material as global vars (you can access them from the mesh anyway: frameMesh.material; frameMesh.geometry).
If the parameter names are the same as a global variable name, javascript will use the parameter variable instead of the global one when trying to access it.