Using a custom vertex shader with THREE.Points

Question

I see that Threejs has a Points Material to draw a geometry as points rather than as triangles. However, I want to manipulate the vertices using my own vertex shader, using a Shader Material. In WebGL, I think I could just call gl_drawArrays using gl.Points instead of gl.Triangles. How can I tell the renderer to draw the geometry as points? Is there a better way to go about this?

Answer 1

little addition, I had no joy until I added gl_PointSize to my vertex shader:

void main(){
    gl_PointSize = 100.;
    gl_Position = projectionMatrix * modelViewMatrix * vec4(position,1.);
}

found the answer in the GPU particle system example.

Answer 2

Found my solution right after asking the question. Just create a THREE.Points object instead of THREE.Mesh using whatever geometry and the Shader Material you want to use.

THREE.Points(geometry, new THREE.ShaderMaterial(parameters));