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# Attributes

Attributes contain information for each vertex.

In order to use attribute information for calculating the color, they have to first be made varying. See the the guide on [Varying](/zh-tw/shaders/typescript-shaders/varying.md) for how to do this.

#### Predefined

ThreeJS provides data for each vertex for position, uv, and normal. These can be accessed from the common attributes object.

```ts
import { attributes } from "@hology/core/shader-nodes"

const uv: Vec2Node = attributes.uv
const position: Vec3Node = attributes.position
const normal: Vec3Node = attributes.normal

```

#### Transformed value helpers

If a vertex transformation is included in the material, then the attributes passed in to the shaders for each vertex are often less useful. Use these values to refer to the position and normal after vertex transformations. Usually you always want to use these to calculate the amount of light reflected from a surface.

```ts
import { transformed } from "@hology/core/shader-nodes"

const position: Vec4Node = transformed.position // After applying vertex transform
const mvPosition: Vec4Node = transformed.mvPosition // After applying vertex transform and the model view matrix
const normal: Vec3Node = transformed.normal // Recalculated normal after applying the vertex transform
```

#### Custom attributes

You can also define your own attributes with attribute node classes.

```ts
import { AttributeVec3Node, Vec3Node } from "@hology/core/shader-nodes"
import { BoxGeometry } from 'three'


const customAttribute: Vec3Node = new AttributeVec3Node('myCustomAttribute')

const customAttributeValues = new Float32Array([
   1, 1, 1,
   1, 1, 1,
   ...
])

const geometry = new BoxGeometry(1,1,1)
geometry.setAttribute('myCustomAttribute', new THREE.BufferAttribute(customAttributeValues, 3));
```

The following classes exist to define your own attributes and the only constructor argument is the name of the attribute as it is defined when calling `setAttribute` on a [THREE.BufferGeometry](https://threejs.org/docs/#api/en/core/BufferGeometry).

```ts
AttributeFloatNode
AttributeVec2Node
AttributeVec3Node
AttributeVec4Node
AttributeMat2Node
AttributeMat3Node
AttributeMat4Node
AttributeRgbNode
AttributeRgbaNode
```


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