The arrival of the Cesium for Unreal plug-in is fairly recent. It was announced last March and became officially available in April 2021, but the ability to work with large geospatial models in the Unreal game engine is a snowball rolling downhill. The alliance between Cesium and Unreal means that the Unreal Engine supports the open format 3D Tiles pioneered by Cesium, which … [Read more...] about Cesium opens more doors for Unreal into AEC
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Cesium for Unreal plugin supports Epic’s vision for an open Metaverse
The open-source plugin combines 3D geospatial capability of Cesium with the high-fidelity rendering capability of Unreal Engine. Cesium’s efforts for combining geospatial and 3D computer graphics started receiving the support of Epic MegaGrants program last June. This is the first effort to plug a full-scale, high-precision 3D globe into Unreal Engine, opening a world of … [Read more...] about Cesium for Unreal plugin supports Epic’s vision for an open Metaverse
Cesium update: Mapping the world and playing with it
The latest update to the Cesium SaaS platform is a global layer of the world’s 3D buildings. In addition, Cesium collaborates with Epic to make geospatial data available within Unreal Engine. Cesium, as we have written, provides a platform for 3D GIS data which are organized as Global Base Layers and include worldwide data for terrain, aerial imagery, and streetmaps. … [Read more...] about Cesium update: Mapping the world and playing with it
Cesium gets down to earth on construction
Open source visualization tools enable realtime site monitoring. The data is out there and there’s more of it every second. With every trip around the sun, our world throws off data, much of it is geospatial data and images from satellites, cars, and mobile devices. Some of it is incidental, some of it is intentional like mapping, measuring, watching, etc. Cesium was founded … [Read more...] about Cesium gets down to earth on construction