Cesium Releases in March 2023

This month we added support for rendering point clouds in Cesium for Unreal and Cesium for Unity. We also shared an update on our Cesium Certified Developer program, which debuted in October 2022.

CesiumJS 1.103 Release

CesiumJS 1.103 is now available, with implementation of smooth zoom with a mouse wheel (#11062).

Other highlights of the release include:

Enabled lighting on voxels with BOX shape. #11076
Fixed browser warning for willReadFrequently option. #11025
Replaced constructor types with primitive types in JSDoc and generated TypeScript definitions. #11080
Adjusted render order of voxels and opaque entities. #11120
Fixed artifacts on edges of voxels with BOX shape. #11050

For more details, see the changelog. You can subscribe to the Cesium release roundup thread on the community forum to get notifications about our monthly releases.

Download CesiumJS 1.103

This month we also published a blog about collaborating with Esri to bring open source support for Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) to CesiumJS.

Inset of a high-resolution 3D Tileset (right) and i3S dataset (left) on Cesium World Terrain. San Francisco data courtesy of Aerometrex.

Cesium for Unreal 1.23.0 Release

Cesium for Unreal has been updated for Unreal Engine 4.27, 5.0, and 5.1. It now has support for rendering 3D Tiles point clouds!

*Point cloud provided by the City of Melbourne, Australia, tiled by Cesium ion, and rendered by Cesium for Unreal.*

This release also includes some important bug fixes and performance improvements. Check the Cesium for Unreal (UE4) release, the Cesium for Unreal (UE5) release, and the Cesium for Unreal Samples release for the full list of updates.

Download the Cesium for Unreal plugin from Epic Marketplace Download the Cesium for Unreal Samples

Cesium for Unity 0.3.0 Release

The Cesium for Unity preview also gained support for 3D Tiles point clouds!

Other highlights of the release include:

Improved CesiumGlobeAnchor, making it able to manage a globe-relative rotation and scale in addition to position. Also improved its performance, particularly when shifting the origin.
Added support for multiple 3D Tiles feature tables, as well as access to metadata properties by name.
Fixed a bug that prevented targeting of il2cpp in Unity 2022.2.

Check the changelog for the full list of updates, and follow our Cesium for Unity tutorials to get started.

Follow the Cesium for Unity Quickstart tutorial