Cesium Releases in May 2023

CesiumJS 1.105 Release

CesiumJS 1.105 is now available. We’ve added ArcGisMapServerImagery.fromBasemapType, and ArcGisBaseMapType, and ArcGisMapService for ease of use with the latest ArcGIS Imagery API. (#11098)

Other highlights of the release include:

Fixed Repeated URI parsing slows 3D Tiles performance #11197. Together with #11211, this can reduce tile parsing time by as much as 25% on large tilesets.
Added Viewer.creditDisplay and CesiumWidget.creditDisplay to access the onscreen and lightbox credits. #11241
Added CreditDisplay.addStaticCredit and CreditDisplay.removeStaticCredit such that Credit.showOnScreen value is taken into account. #6215
Added options.gltfCallback to Model.loadGltfAsync to allow apps to access the loaded glTF JSON. #11240

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Cesium for Unreal 1.25.0 Release

Starting with this release, Cesium for Unreal requires Unreal Engine v5.0 or later. There will be no more releases for Unreal Engine v4.27.

Some changes in this release include:

On-screen credits now only show on the screen, and not in the Data Attribution panel. Additionally, the Data Attribution panel no longer appears if there are no credits to display in it.
Updates from Cesium Native, including support for implicit tiling in the 3D Tiles 1.1 specification. Read more in the Cesium Native changelog.

Check the Cesium for Unreal (UE5) release and the Cesium for Unreal Samples release for the full list of updates.

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Cesium for Unity 1.1.0 Release

As of this update, CesiumObjectPool is no longer accessible from outside the CesiumRuntime assembly.

Other highlights include:

Added support for primitives with the TRIANGLE_STRIP and TRIANGLE_FAN topology types.
Missing normals are now generated as "flat" normals by default, as required by the glTF specification. An option on Cesium3DTileset allows the user to request smooth normals instead, which will improve performance for most meshes by reducing geometry duplication.
Moved mipmap generation from the main thread to a worker thread, which improves the performance of textured datasets.
Added dependencies on the ShaderGraph and InputSystem packages to resolve material / script compilation errors.
Fixed another bug where CesiumCameraController tried to access a non-existent input in the legacy input system.
Removed an extra "delimiter" added to the end of on-screen credits in some cases.
Fixed a memory leak of Mesh objects when entering and exiting Play mode in the Unity Editor.
Fixed a crash that happened when attempting to create physics meshes for degenerate triangle meshes.

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

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Cesium for Omniverse 0.5.0 Release

Highlights of this release include:

Added material pool for better performance and to reduce texture/material loading artifacts.
Added support for multiple viewports.
Fixed red flashes when materials are loading.
Fixed cyan flashes when textures are loading.
Fixed adding imagery as base layer for existing tileset.
Fixed Fabric types for tilesetId and tileId.
Upgraded to cesium-native v0.23.0.

Peruse the changelog for the full list of updates, and get started with our Cesium for Omniverse tutorials.

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