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I am trying to display a sprite in three on javascript and make it bigger. I tried the following:

THREE.ImageUtils.crossOrigin = '';
var spriteMap = THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture( "https://cdn.iconscout.com/icon/premium/png-256-thumb/airplane-1993284-1683707.png" );
var spriteMaterial = new THREE.SpriteMaterial( { map: spriteMap } );
var sprite = new THREE.Sprite( spriteMaterial );
sprite.width = 10;
sprite.height = 10;
scene.add( sprite );
THREE.ImageUtils.crossOrigin = '';
var spriteMap = THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture( "https://cdn.iconscout.com/icon/premium/png-256-thumb/airplane-1993284-1683707.png" );
var spriteMaterial = new THREE.SpriteMaterial( { map: spriteMap } );
var sprite = new THREE.Sprite( spriteMaterial );
sprite.size = THREE.Vector3(10,10,10);
scene.add( sprite );
but the sprite was very very tiny in the middle of the browser window. I saw no error on the console.
What am I doing wrong?
Sprite.size does not exist. Try to modify Sprite.scale instead. Check out the following live example:
var camera, scene, renderer;
init();
animate();
function init() {
  camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(70, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.01, 10);
  camera.position.z = 5;
  scene = new THREE.Scene();
  var loader = new THREE.TextureLoader();
    var map = loader.load("https://cdn.iconscout.com/icon/premium/png-256-thumb/airplane-1993284-1683707.png");
  var material = new THREE.SpriteMaterial({
    map: map
  var sprite = new THREE.Sprite(material);
  sprite.scale.set( 5, 5, 1 );
  scene.add(sprite);
  renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({
    antialias: true
  renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
  document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
function animate() {
  requestAnimationFrame(animate);
  renderer.render(scene, camera);
body {
    margin: 0;
canvas {
    display: block;
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/three@0.119.1/build/three.js"></script>
If you want the scaling to happen based on the camera distance, you need to add a parameter to your material variable:
sizeAttenuation: false
Like this:
var material = new THREE.SpriteMaterial({
map: map,
sizeAttenuation: false});
This will make your sprite big when to camera is far away and smaller when the camera gets closer to it (based on the sprite.scale.set() values).
        
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