1.57

CesiumGS/cesium1.57May 1, 2019by tfili

AI Summary

Delivers significant performance improvements to 3D Tiles streaming and introduces support for glTF extensions and specific CZML properties.

Key Highlights

  • Improved 3D Tiles streaming performance, resulting in ~67% camera tour load time reduction and ~44% load count reduction.
  • Tile load priority changed to focus on loading tiles in the center of the screen first.
  • Added support for the `KHR_texture_transform` glTF extension.
  • Added CZML processing for `heightReference` and `extrudedHeightReference` for geometry types that support it.

New Features

  • Support for KHR_texture_transform glTF extension
  • Support for heightReference and extrudedHeightReference in CZML

Full Release Notes

1.57 - 2019-05-01

Highlights include:
* Improved 3D Tiles streaming performance, resulting in ~67% camera tour load time reduction, ~44% camera tour load count reduction. And for general camera movement, ~20% load time reduction with ~27% tile load count reduction. Tile load priority changed to focus on loading tiles in the center of the screen first.
* Added support for the `KHR_texture_transform` glTF extension.
* Add CZML processing for `heightReference` and `extrudedHeightReference` for geometry types that support it.

See the [change log](https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/blob/1.57/CHANGES.md) for the complete list of changes.