How to use getOrCreateEntity

CesiumJS
1

My problem is that I am hard of thinking.

Please could someone suggest how I should modify the code below to use the getOrCreateEntity method?

var entity = viewer.entities.add(

{

//Set the entity availability to the same interval as the simulation time.

availability : new Cesium.TimeIntervalCollection(

[new Cesium.TimeInterval(

{

start : start,

stop : stop

}

)

]

),

2

Hi Hugh,

Take a look at the 3D Models example for adding model entities, The path pat would be something like:

path : {

show : true,

leadTime : 0,

trailTime : 60,

width : 10,

resolution : 1,

material : new Cesium.PolylineGlowMaterialProperty({

glowPower : 0.3,

color : Cesium.Color.PALEGOLDENROD

})

``

Thanks,

Gabby

3

Thanks Gabby,

I had got myself into a knot, trying to use .getOrCreateEntity as a direct replacement for .add. It hadn’t occurred to me that it would return an entity, of which I could then set the properties. I know that now, but I must have been too tired to read the plain Engish in the API documentation!

What I am trying to achieve is avoiding creating multiple copies of an entity. If I create (.add) an entity with an id of ‘ThatThing’, I can subsequently use:

var q = new Cesium.Entity;
q = viewer.entities.getById(‘ThatThing’);
console.log(q);

``

which I can see in the Chrome console as an entity having various properties. If I try to use the .contains method

var q = new Cesium.Entity;
q = viewer.entities.getById(‘ThatThing’);
var y = viewer.entities.contains(q);
console.log(y);

``

it gives a message: entity is required.

I’m not a lot further forward.

4

I think you want to do something like the following:

var entity = viewer.entities.getOrCreateEntity(‘ThatThing’);

// set the entity properties
entity.model.minimumPixelSize = 64;

``

Note that most entity properties will be a Property type or a Graphics type, so you’ll need to access them accordingly.

Thanks,

Gabby