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Cesium Releases in August 2021

Sam Rothstein

This month we made updates across the Cesium platform, including adding support for Android to Cesium for Unreal and responding to many community requests for improvements to CesiumJS.

CesiumJS 1.84 Release 

CesiumJS 1.84 is now available. The release includes numerous community-requested improvements and bug fixes.

Highlights of the release include:

  • Added ImageryLayerCollection.pickImageryLayers, which allows you to pick individual imagery layers, for example, when needing to select a single imagery layer from a series of overlapping drone collections. 
  • Added a polylinePositions getter to Cesium3DTileFeature that gets the decoded positions of a polyline vector feature. 
Cartesian coordinates for a polyline in a vector tile

Returning a Float64Array of Cartesian coordinates for a polyline in a vector tile. This works for both clamped and unclamped polylines.

See the changelog for a full list of updates and links to the discussion & code on each one. You can also subscribe to the new Cesium roundup release thread on our community forum to get notifications about our monthly releases.

CesiumJS 1.84

Cesium for Unreal Updates

The newest release of Cesium for Unreal is now available. Cesium for Unreal is now supported on Android. In addition to bug fixes, highlights from the release include:

  • Updates cesium-native from v0.5.0 to v0.6.0. See the cesium-native changelog for a complete list of changes in cesium-native.
  • Added support for reading per-feature metadata from glTFs with the EXT_feature_metadata extension or from 3D Tiles with a B3DM batch table and accessing it from Blueprints.

See the changelog for a full list of updates. 

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