Cesium Releases in December 2023
In November, we announced our new Reality Tiler, Cesium for Unreal 2.0, 3D Tiles in QGIS, and Cesium Grants Japan 2024, and exhibited at I/ITSEC 2023, the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training event.
CesiumJS 1.112 Release
CesiumJS 1.112 is now available. Highlights of this release include:
- Fixed terrain lockups in
requestTileGeometryby ensuring promise handling aligns with CesiumJS's expectations. #11630 - Corrected JSDoc and Typescript definitions that marked optional arguments as required in
Cesium3dTileset.fromIonAssetId#11623 andIonImageryProvider.fromAssetId. #11624
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.
Cesium for Unreal 2.1.0 Release
Cesium for Unreal v2.1.0 is now available.
Highlights of this release include:
- Significantly improved tile download performance, particularly for Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles.
- Added support for styling with property textures in
EXT_structural_metadata. - Fixed several important bugs.
Check the Cesium for Unreal release and the Cesium for Unreal Samples release for the full list of updates.
Improved tile download performance.
Example of metadata styling with property textures from the 3D Tiles 1.1 metadata extensions. The uncertainty of the captured data is visualized in yellow. Data provided by Maxar.
Cesium for Omniverse 0.14.0 Release
Cesium for Omniverse v0.14.0 is now available. Highlights of this release include:
- Added support for
EXT_structural_metadata. Property values can be accessed in material graph with thecesium_propertynodes. - Added support for
EXT_mesh_features. Feature ID values can be accessed in material graph with thecesium_feature_id_intnode. - Added support for custom glTF vertex attributes. Attribute values can be accessed in material graph with the
data_lookupnodes. - Added support for changing a tileset's imagery layer dynamically in material graph.
Peruse the changelog for the full list of updates, and get started with our Cesium for Omniverse tutorials.
Median heat data in New York City visualized over Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles.
Cesium ion Updates
The new Reality Tiler for 3D photogrammetry and reality models is part of 3D Tiling Pipelines included in Cesium ion and on-premises products. Get more details in this blog post.
The changelog has the full list of updates.
Using the Reality Tiler in Cesium ion: the new Reality Tiler will be the default for all 3D Capture / Reality Model / Photogrammetry data types.
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Outdooractive gives users access to 3D views of trails for outdoor sports with CesiumJS.
Ansys integrates Cesium with Ansys Systems Tool Kit (STK), Ansys Digital Mission Engineering (DME) Component Libraries, and Ansys RF Channel Modeler to visualize complex multidomain scenarios.
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The Royal Air Force has been preparing troops for some missions with immersive XR simulations in Cesium for Unreal.
COMSPOC uses CesiumJS to deliver space domain awareness and space situational awareness for civil and defense applications in near real time.