Enjoying Cesium for Unreal so far :slight_smile: I have some (lat, long, alt) points but the alt points are a little noisy. Is there a way to get the height of the terrain? Ideally I’d like to draw on the tiles like: [image] Cesium Sandcastle The Cesium Sandcastle provides an interactiv…

Hi @nhapeman , Great question. We are currently working on a direct way of querying the height of terrain given lat/long. However, given your use case, a decal component might be well suited for your use case of drawing on top of the terrain. If you do need to get the height in the meantime, you c…

Thanks! I did get ray tracing to work. Had some issues with ray tracing not working when the camera wasn’t looking in the direction I wanted to ray trace but got around it with a minimal caching solution. Should be a good enough solution to last to an update with legit terrain height grabbing.

Do you guys have a release date for the elevation query?

Hi @xuelong , do you have any updates regarding this feature?

Hi, [image] xuelong: Great question. We are currently working on a direct way of querying the height of terrain given lat/long. any progress on this quite useful feature? Best Andreas

I agree it is very useful! But we don’t have an update on it at this time.

Just to give an update, as of Cesium for Unreal v2.9.0, you can now use the asynchronous SampleHeightMostDetailed function to query the height on a tileset, at a given longitude / latitude position. This is available in both Blueprints and C++. Remember that this height is returned in meters above t…

[image] janine: SampleHeightMostDetailed is this functionality available for hte latest version of cesium ?

Hi @Mayamin_Raha , welcome to the community! Yes, see my comment right above your post. We added this function to the plugin last year and it continues to be a feature to this day. Let us know if you run into any issues or need further support. Thanks!

Hello, Thank you I am using Cesium 2.13.3, and using C++ code to use SampleHeightMOstdetailed function but it seems to be unrecognized. Can you tell me which file of cesium has definition of this function and I could check it by myself ? I checked Cesiumgeoreference.h and it did not have the fucntio…

Get altitude at lat long

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darcyvdd February 27, 2026, 5:45am 14

Hey @Saad_Abbas, looks like you posted this separately and that topic now has a response! Please let us know on that topic if that information was helpful!

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Get altitude at lat long

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