Scene

Scene

new Scene

The container for all 3D graphical objects and state in a Cesium virtual scene. Generally, a scene is not created directly; instead, it is implicitly created by CesiumWidget.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Argument	Default	Description
`canvas`	HTMLCanvasElement			The HTML canvas element to create the scene for.
`contextOptions`	Object	<optional>	undefined	Properties corresponding to WebGLContextAttributes used to create the WebGL context. Default values are shown in the code example below.

Example

// Create scene with default context options.
var scene = new Scene(canvas, {
    alpha : false,
    depth : true,
    stencil : false,
    antialias : true,
    premultipliedAlpha : true,
    preserveDrawingBuffer : false
});

See:

Source:

/Source/Scene/Scene.js

Members

backgroundColor :Color

The background color, which is only visible if there is no sky box, i.e., Scene#skyBox is undefined.

Default Value:

Color.BLACK

See:

Scene#skyBox

farToNearRatio :Number

The far-to-near ratio of the multi-frustum. The default is 1,000.0.

Default Value:

1000.0

mode :SceneMode

The current mode of the scene.

Default Value:

SceneMode.SCENE3D

morphTime :Number

The current morph transition time between 2D/Columbus View and 3D, with 0.0 being 2D or Columbus View and 1.0 being 3D.

Default Value:

1.0

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skyAtmosphere :SkyAtmosphere

The sky atmosphere drawn around the globe.

Default Value:

undefined

skyBox :SkyBox

The SkyBox used to draw the stars.

Default Value:

undefined

See:

Scene#backgroundColor

The Sun.

Default Value:

undefined

Methods

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getAnimations

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getFrameState

Gets state information about the current scene. If called outside of a primitive's update function, the previous frame's state is returned.

getPrimitives

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getScreenSpaceCameraController

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getUniformState

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initializeFrame

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isDestroyed

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