Material backside color equivalent for gltf tiles?

[sam.rothstein]

@ka_sc

Great question - the short answer is yes! Are you familiar with this community forum thread?

Help us test the new underground features in CesiumJS

We’ve been working on improving support for underground visualization in CesiumJS - which includes the ability to ability to make the globe translucent in order to see 3D Tiles/entities underground, as well as improved camera controls when inspecting these data sources that are below the ground: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/915398/80618332-3666b800-8a11-11ea-879c-710301e1b4b3.gif(image larger than 4096KB) This has been one of the most highly requested features recently and we nee…

It goes over ample details about underground features and backside colors in CesiumJS. I also found this thread that discusses picking entities that are underneath the terrain.

Picking bellow terrain

Hello, I’m enabling terrain translucency (via globe.translucency) and I want to display underground pipes via tilesets. This all works great. However, I cannot click on them. I tried to use scene.pick and scene.drillPick, but both methods don’t return anything. Any suggestion what may be wrong? Or is this simply not supported? thank you, Martin

Do you have a particular use case or application in mind?

-Sam