I’m just trying to use Cesium for Unreal Samples as a fully 3d globe that I can play around with and explore. But the controls are really wonky (very slow mouse wheel, and no mouse wheel at all when playing the level) and I can’t figure out how to reliably jump from location to location. I’ve had no luck finding a tutorial for just “playing” Samples as a level, which is all I really want to do. Help?
Are you using the DynamicPawn? If not, you’ll get Unreal’s default pawn, which isn’t very well suited to exploring a globe.
If you haven’t already, you should take a look at the Cesium for Unreal Samples project. It has a bunch of levels that demonstrated capabilities of the plugin, including doing flights between locations.
That’s what I’m trying to use. I’m probably not communicating my situation very well because I have no idea what I’m talking about, but when I try to use “play this level in the active viewport,” it just parks me over the Bay Bridge and that’s it.
Yeah that’s pretty much what the first level in the Samples does. You should be able to (manually) fly anywhere in the world, though.
There are other interesting things if you open other levels, though. You can find information about the different levels here:
I can’t really tell how to do other levels.
File → Open Level, then navigate to CesiumSamples/Maps/[level number] and double click the main map file (there’s only in most directories, when there are multiple the one you want has MAIN in its name).