My end goal is to have a simple function whereby I specify a start and end point and it works out how many evenly spaced shapes I can get, so then if I change the length of the line the shapes update accordingly…Before I go down the wrong path, I just want to see if anyone had a fancy way of doing this?
I was going to use the normal line stuff threejs has (maybe the fat lines so I can control with) and then either use sprites or geometry to add the shapes and then put everything in a group - is there a better approach, perhaps with shaders?
Yes, you can inject into a fat line, or just draw connected shapes using primitives. Because that seems to be what you were asking for originally. But I assume you need a 3D environment and not a simple flat pattern, so fat line modification is probably what you are looking for.
