Cesium 1.17

1.17 - 2016-01-04

Highlights include:

• Reduced the amount of GPU and CPU memory used by terrain by using compression. The CPU memory was reduced by up to 40%.
• Added the ability to manipulate Model node transformations via CZML and the Entity API. See the new Sandcastle example: CZML Model - Node Transformations. #3316
• Added Globe.tileLoadProgressEvent, which is raised when the length of the tile load queue changes, enabling incremental loading indicators.

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Cesium 1.16

1.16 - 2015-12-01

Highlights include:

• Improved terrain performance by up to 35%. Added support for fog near the horizon, which improves performance by rendering less terrain tiles and reduces terrain tile requests. This is enabled by default. See Scene.fog for options. #3154
• Added terrain exaggeration. Enabled on viewer creation with the exaggeration scalar as the terrainExaggeration option.
• Added support for incrementally loading textures after a Model is ready. This allows the Model to be visible as soon as possible while its textures are loaded in the background.

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Cesium 1.15

1.15 - 2015-11-02

Highlights include:

• Added support for the glTF 1.0 draft specification.
• Added support for the glTF extensions KHR_binary_glTF and KHR_materials_common.
• Decreased GPU memory usage in BillboardCollection and LabelCollection by using WebGL instancing.

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Cesium 1.14

1.14 - 2015-10-01

Highlights include:

• Fixed issues causing the terrain and sky to disappear when the camera is near the surface. #2415 and #2271
• Changed the ScreenSpaceCameraController.minimumZoomDistance default from 20.0 to 1.0.
• Added Billboard.sizeInMeters. true sets the billboard size to be measured in meters; otherwise, the size of the billboard is measured in pixels. Also added support for billboard sizeInMeters to entities and CZML.

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Cesium 1.13

1.13 - 2015-09-01

Highlights include:

• Added support for GroundPrimitive which works much like Primitive but drapes geometry over terrain. #2865
• Added Scene.groundPrimitives, which is a primitive collection like Scene.primitives, but for GroundPrimitive instances. It allows custom z-ordering. #2960

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Cesium 1.12

1.12 - 2015-08-03

Highlights include:

• Added MapboxImageryProvider to load imagery from Mapbox.
• Added maximumHeight option to Viewer.flyTo. #2868
• Added picking support to UrlTemplateImageryProvider.
• Added ArcGIS token-based authentication support to ArcGisMapServerImageryProvider.

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Cesium 1.11

1.11 - 2015-07-01

Highlights include:

• Improved camera flights. #2825
• The camera now zooms to the point under the mouse cursor.
• Added a new camera mode for horizon views. When the camera is looking at the horizon and a point on terrain above the camera is picked, the camera moves in the plane containing the camera position, up and right vectors.
• Improved terrain and imagery performance and reduced tile loading by up to 50%, depending on the camera view, by using the new OrientedBoundingBox for view frustum culling. See Terrain Culling with Oriented Bounding Boxes.

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Cesium 1.10

1.10 - 2015-06-01

Highlights include:

• Added view query parameter to the CesiumViewer app, which sets the initial camera position using longitude, latitude, height, heading, pitch and roll. For example: http://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/CesiumViewer/index.html/index.html?view=-75.0,40.0,300.0,9.0,-13.0,3.0
• Added Billboard.heightReference and Label.heightReference to clamp billboards and labels to terrain.
• Added support for the CESIUM_binary_glTF extension for loading binary blobs of glTF to Model. See Faster 3D Models with Binary glTF.
• Added support for the CESIUM_RTC glTF extension for high-precision rendering to Model.

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Cesium 1.9

1.9 - 2015-05-01

Highlights include:

• Entity material properties and Material uniform values can now take a canvas element in addition to an image or url. #2667
• Fixed a bug which caused Entity.viewFrom to be ignored when flying to, zooming to, or tracking an Entity. #2628
• Fixed a bug that caused Corridor and PolylineVolume geometry to be incorrect for sharp corners #2626

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Cesium 1.8

1.8 - 2015-04-01

Highlights include:

• Added Entity.show, a boolean for hiding or showing an entity and its children.
• Added Entity.isShowing, a read-only property that indicates if an entity is currently being drawn.
• Added support for the KML visibility element.
• Added PolylineArrowMaterialProperty to allow entities materials to use polyline arrows.

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