Storing Tiles - best practices

CesiumJS
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hi,

We plan to work with Cesium On-Premise. Are there any best practices for storing the tiles? any preferred DB? I wonder what users tend to do…

May I ask - how Cesium ion stores the tiles? (replications, etc)

thanks!

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On Cesium ion assets get stores as static files. See “asset hosting” in this architecture blog:

https://cesium.com/blog/2018/03/12/cesium-ion-server-architecture/

When you using the CLI, you can output your 3D Tiles as “.3dtiles” which is a database format. That way you have one file per tileset so you can easily copy/move it around but still be able to serve out of it as described here: https://cesium.com/docs/on-premise/tutorials/hosting-3d-content/

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thanks Omar.
how do I create this .3dtiles file?

does the .3dtiles file come instead of the files hierarchy (folders 0…n, each folder contains tiles, and the tileset.json in the root)?

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When passing the output path, instead of giving it the name of a directory to output, add “.3dtiles” to the end, so it looks like:

modeltiler.exe -i input.las -o out.3dtiles

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This is documented here: https://cesium.com/docs/on-premise/tilers/models/

This will be a single file instead of the directory of files with the tiles.