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Cesium v1.46 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-06-01 // almost 6 years ago
  • Highlights :sparkler:
    • ➕ Added support for materials on terrain entities (entities with unspecified height) and GroundPrimitives. #6393
    • ➕ Added a post-processing framework. #5615
    • ➕ Added zIndex for ground geometry, including corridor, ellipse, polygon and rectangle entities. #6362
    💥 Breaking Changes :mega:
    • ParticleSystem no longer uses forces. #6510
    • Particle no longer uses size, rate, lifeTime, life, minimumLife, maximumLife, minimumWidth, minimumHeight, maximumWidth, and maximumHeight. #6510
    • ✂ Removed Scene.copyGlobeDepth. Globe depth will now be copied by default when supported. #6393
    • 0️⃣ The default classificationType for GroundPrimitive, CorridorGraphics, EllipseGraphics, PolygonGraphics and RectangleGraphics is now ClassificationType.TERRAIN. If you wish the geometry to color both terrain and 3D tiles, pass in the option classificationType: Cesium.ClassificationType.BOTH.
    • ✂ Removed support for the options argument for Credit #6373. Pass in an html string instead.
    • glTF 2.0 models corrected to face +Z forwards per specification. Internally Cesium uses +X as forward, so a new +Z to +X rotation was added for 2.0 models only. #6632
    Deprecated :hourglass_flowing_sand:
    • 🚚 The Scene.fxaa property has been deprecated and will be removed in Cesium 1.47. Use Scene.postProcessStages.fxaa.enabled.
    ➕ Additions :tada:
    • ➕ Added support for materials on terrain entities (entities with unspecified height) and GroundPrimitives. #6393
      • Only available for ClassificationType.TERRAIN at this time. Adding a material to a terrain Entity will cause it to behave as if it is ClassificationType.TERRAIN.
      • Requires depth texture support (WEBGL_depth_texture or WEBKIT_WEBGL_depth_texture), so materials on terrain entities and GroundPrimitives are not supported in Internet Explorer.
      • Best suited for notational patterns and not intended for precisely mapping textures to terrain - for that use case, use SingleTileImageryProvider.
    • ➕ Added GroundPrimitive.supportsMaterials and Entity.supportsMaterialsforEntitiesOnTerrain, both of which can be used to check if materials on terrain entities and GroundPrimitives is supported. #6393
    • ➕ Added a post-processing framework. #5615
      • Added Scene.postProcessStages which is a collection of post-process stages to be run in order.
        • Has a built-in ambientOcclusion property which will apply screen space ambient occlusion to the scene and run before all stages.
        • Has a built-in bloom property which applies a bloom filter to the scene before all other stages but after the ambient occlusion stage.
        • Has a built-in fxaa property which applies Fast Approximate Anti-aliasing (FXAA) to the scene after all other stages.
      • Added PostProcessStageLibrary which contains several built-in stages that can be added to the collection.
      • Added PostProcessStageComposite for multi-stage post-processes like depth of field.
      • Added a new Sandcastle label Post Processing to showcase the different built-in post-process stages.
      • Added zIndex for ground geometry, including corridor, ellipse, polygon and rectangle entities. #6362
      • Added Rectangle.equalsEpsilon for comparing the equality of two rectangles #6533
    🛠 Fixes :wrench:
    • 🛠 Fixed a bug causing custom TilingScheme classes to not be able to use a GeographicProjection. #6524
    • 🛠 Fixed incorrect 3D Tiles statistics when a tile fails during processing. #6558
    • 🛠 Fixed race condition causing intermittent crash when changing geometry show value #3061
    • ProviderViewModels with no category are displayed in an untitled group in BaseLayerPicker instead of being labeled as 'Other' #6574
    • 🛠 Fixed a bug causing intermittent crashes with clipping planes due to uninitialized textures. #6576
    • ➕ Added a workaround for clipping planes causing a picking shader compilation failure for gltf models and 3D Tilesets in Internet Explorer #6575
    • 👍 Allowed Bing Maps servers with a subpath (instead of being at the root) to work correctly. #6597
    • ➕ Added support for loading of Draco compressed glTF assets in IE11 #6404
    • 🛠 Fixed polygon outline when using perPositionHeight and extrudedHeight. #6595
    • 🛠 Fixed broken links in documentation of createTileMapServiceImageryProvider. #5818
    • Transitioning from 2 touches to 1 touch no longer triggers a new pan gesture. #6479