Cesium Version 1.31 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Cesium 1.31. Highlights include
- Added compressed texture support for glTF models and imagery layers.
- Added support for Scene.pickPosition in Columbus view and 2D.
- Added support for depth picking translucent primitives when Scene.pickTranslucentDepth is true.
- Fixed an issue where the camera would zoom past an object and flip to the other side of the globe.
- Added support for GroundPrimitive on browsers and hardware without the EXT_frag_depth extension.
For the full list of changes, see the change log.
News
- The Swiss federal government is now using 3D Tiles with ol3-Cesium to visualize their comprehensive model of Switzerland, including buildings. Check out the showcase.
- Smartrac used Cesium on Liquid Galaxy, put together by End Point, for their exhibit at the National Retail Federation.
The Swiss geospatial portal in 3D.
Articles
This month the Cesium team has written a number of in-depth blog posts just for developers:
- Visualizing Massive Models using 3D Tiles, by Kangning Li.
- Hierarchical Culling With Children Bounding Volumes, by Austin Eng.
- WebGL Texture Compression Comparison, by Dan Bagnell.
- Tighter Frustum Culling and Why You May Want to Disregard It, by Austin Eng.
Events
- FOSS4G, the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference, will be August 14–19 in Boston. Proposals are due March 21.
- TEDxPenn is on April 1 in Philadelphia. Rachel Hwang of the Cesium team will be speaking about 3D geospatial there.
- GDC, the Game Developers Conference, is Feb 27–Mar 3 in San Francisco. Meet members of the Cesium team at the WebGL/WebVR/glTF meetup.
- There was a glTF webinar on Feb 14 by Marco Hutter. For an introduction to glTF, how it is structured, and pointers on where to learn more, check out the slides.
- The Cesium Bug Bash on Feb 10 was a success. Read the trip report for highlights of the event.
Showcases
We have a new showcase up on our demos page.
