CesiumJS 1.124 adds an integration with the iTwin Platform to load iModels as 3D Tiles.
Cesium for Unreal 2.11.0 adds support for Unreal Engine 5.5.
Cesium for Unity 1.14.0 adds a “From Ellipsoid” option to Cesium3DTileset to generate a tileset by tessellating the surface of the ellipsoid, producing a simple globe tileset without terrain features.
Cesium ion updates include Reality Tiler improvements, plus the Design Tiler and Cesium ion for Autodesk Revit Add-In coming soon.
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CesiumJS 1.125 expands the integration with the iTwin Platform to load GeoJSON and KML data from the Reality Management API.
Cesium for Unreal 2.12.0 removes support for Unreal Engine 5.2. Unreal Engine 5.3 or later is now required.
Cesium for Unity 1.14.1 fixes a bug that could cause a crash on AppDomain reloads.
Cesium ion additions include the release of the Design Tiler and Cesium ion for Autodesk Revit Add-In, annotations for Cesium Stories, and updates to the Reality Tiler and 3D Tiling Pipeline.
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CesiumJS 1.126 adds ITwinData.loadGeospatialFeatures(iTwinId, collectionId) function to load data from the Geospatial Features API.
Cesium for Unreal 2.13.1 adds CesiumUrlTemplateRasterOverlay, allowing a raster overlay to be added using tiles requested based on a specified URL template.
Cesium for Unity 1.15.1 handles exceptions in either C# or C++ code more reliably.
Cesium ion updates include Cesium OSM Buildings and the Google geocoder.
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CesiumJS 1.127 updates Cesium3DTilesVoxelProvider to load glTF tiles using the new EXT_primitive_voxels extension to more closely align with the rest of the 3D Tiles ecosystem.
Cesium for Unreal 2.14.0 adds support for drawing 3D Tilesets to Runtime Virtual Textures.
In Cesium for Unity 1.15.4, “External Tilesets” are now unloaded when they are no longer used.
Cesium ion updates include importing from and exporting to Azure.
CesiumJS 1.128 adds support for loading iTwin data using share keys as an alternative to user-based OAuth. When using a share key, set ITwinPlatform.defaultShareKey.
In Cesium for Unreal 2.15.0, actors spawned through the Cesium editor panel, such as tilesets and cartographic polygons, will now be parented to the first selected georeference—if any—instead of always being parented to the first georeference in the scene.
Cesium for Unity 1.15.5 fixes a bug that could cause a crash when reloading a scene or tileset repeatedly.
Cesium ion updates include IFC metadata and a “region” field to improve performance.
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In CesiumJS 1.129, VoxelProvider.minimumBounds and .maximumBounds are now specified as physical values, rather than shape space values.
Cesium for Unreal 2.16.0 adds the ability to query the Cesium ion geocoder from Blueprints to resolve place names and addresses to longitude and latitude.
Cesium for Unity 1.16.0 adds CesiumUrlTemplateRasterOverlay component, allowing a raster overlay to be added using tiles requested based on a specified URL template.
Cesium for Omniverse now targets Kit 106.5.
Cesium ion highlights include Design Tiler, Reality Tiler, and Cesium ion for Autodesk Revit Add-In improvements.
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CesiumJS 1.131 adds experimental support for loading 3D Tiles with Gaussian splats encoded with SPZ compression using the draft glTF extension.
Cesium for Unreal 2.17.0 adds support for Unreal Engine 5.6.
Cesium for Unity 1.16.2 fixes broken support for TRIANGLE_FAN primitives in tile meshes.
Cesium ion highlights include analysis on point clouds, tech preview for mesh reconstruction from photos, tech preview for Gaussian splats, and Reality Tiler updates.
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CesiumJS 1.138 fixes jitter artifacts on Intel Arc GPUs.
In Cesium for Unreal 2.23.0, when adding a CesiumCartographicPolygon to the level via the Cesium panel, the polygon is now created in the current Editor view, rather than at the origin.
Cesium for Unity 1.22.0 fixes a bug that prevented CesiumGoogleMapTilesRasterOverlay from being added to a GameObject in more recent versions of Unity.
Coming this week for Cesium ion: Design and Reality Tilers will be packaged with the tilers and tools in the 3D Tiling Pipeline.
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CesiumJS 1.139 adds panorama support via new EquirectangularPanorama and CubeMapPanorama classes, along with GoogleStreetViewCubeMapPanoramaProvider for loading cube map faces from the Google Street View Static API and rendering them in a cube map panorama.
Cesium for Unreal 2.24.1 adds support for loading tilesets with the KHR_gaussian_splatting extension.
Cesium for Unity 1.23.0 adds CesiumGeoJsonDocumentRasterOverlay, allowing stylized GeoJSON to be rasterized and draped over terrain and other 3D Tiles.
Cesium for Omniverse 0.27.0 now requires Kit 107.3 or above (Isaac Sim 5.1.0 or above).
Cesium ion updates include additional options for running photo reconstruction jobs via Cesium ion SaaS, a new version of Cesium ion-Self-Hosted, and the terrain-and-imagery-tiler producing 3D Tiles 1.1 output.
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CesiumJS 1.140 fixes a regression with the NGA-GPM local extension and custom shaders.
Cesium for Unreal 2.25.0 adds support for tilesets containing 3DTILES_content_voxels. Voxel metadata can be styled with materials generated by UCesiumVoxelMetadataComponent.
Cesium for Unity 1.23.1 updates cesium-native from v0.58.0 to v0.59.0.
Cesium for Omniverse 0.28.0 now requires Kit 109.0 or above (Isaac Sim 6.0.0 or above).
Cesium ion Self-Hosted 1.9.0, plus Gaussian splats and design tiler updates.
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CesiumJS 1.141 adds support for properties (EXT_structural_metadata) in vector tilesets.
Added ACesium3DTileset::UnloadEditorTilesInPlayMode, which toggles whether in-editor tileset instances should unload their tiles before Play-in-Editor begins.
Cesium for Unity 1.23.2 fixes a bug in CesiumRasterOverlays::GeoJsonDocumentRasterOverlay where styles set on geometry objects within a FeatureCollection were not applied.
SSO in Cesium ion SaaS, Cesium ion Self-Hosted 1.10.0, and tilers updates.
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In CesiumJS 1.142, Sandcastle now ships with Cesium Copilot, an in-app AI coding assistant that writes, edits, and debugs CesiumJS code in the same panel as the live preview.
Cesium for Unreal 2.27.0 adds CesiumVectorTilesRasterOverlay supporting vector data loaded from 3D Tiles tilesets.
In Cesium for Unity 1.23.3, the native Android library (libCesiumForUnityNative.so) is now built with 16 KB ELF segment alignment.
Cesium ion and tilers updates include expanded support for design model formats and technology previews for vector and voxel tilers.
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