Cesium 1.14

1.14 - 2015-10-01

Highlights include:

• Fixed issues causing the terrain and sky to disappear when the camera is near the surface. #2415 and #2271
• Changed the ScreenSpaceCameraController.minimumZoomDistance default from 20.0 to 1.0.
• Added Billboard.sizeInMeters. true sets the billboard size to be measured in meters; otherwise, the size of the billboard is measured in pixels. Also added support for billboard sizeInMeters to entities and CZML.

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Cesium 1.13

1.13 - 2015-09-01

Highlights include:

• Added support for GroundPrimitive which works much like Primitive but drapes geometry over terrain. #2865
• Added Scene.groundPrimitives, which is a primitive collection like Scene.primitives, but for GroundPrimitive instances. It allows custom z-ordering. #2960

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Cesium 1.12

1.12 - 2015-08-03

Highlights include:

• Added MapboxImageryProvider to load imagery from Mapbox.
• Added maximumHeight option to Viewer.flyTo. #2868
• Added picking support to UrlTemplateImageryProvider.
• Added ArcGIS token-based authentication support to ArcGisMapServerImageryProvider.

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Cesium 1.11

1.11 - 2015-07-01

Highlights include:

• Improved camera flights. #2825
• The camera now zooms to the point under the mouse cursor.
• Added a new camera mode for horizon views. When the camera is looking at the horizon and a point on terrain above the camera is picked, the camera moves in the plane containing the camera position, up and right vectors.
• Improved terrain and imagery performance and reduced tile loading by up to 50%, depending on the camera view, by using the new OrientedBoundingBox for view frustum culling. See Terrain Culling with Oriented Bounding Boxes.

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Cesium 1.10

1.10 - 2015-06-01

Highlights include:

• Added view query parameter to the CesiumViewer app, which sets the initial camera position using longitude, latitude, height, heading, pitch and roll. For example: http://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/CesiumViewer/index.html/index.html?view=-75.0,40.0,300.0,9.0,-13.0,3.0
• Added Billboard.heightReference and Label.heightReference to clamp billboards and labels to terrain.
• Added support for the CESIUM_binary_glTF extension for loading binary blobs of glTF to Model. See Faster 3D Models with Binary glTF.
• Added support for the CESIUM_RTC glTF extension for high-precision rendering to Model.

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Cesium 1.9

1.9 - 2015-05-01

Highlights include:

• Entity material properties and Material uniform values can now take a canvas element in addition to an image or url. #2667
• Fixed a bug which caused Entity.viewFrom to be ignored when flying to, zooming to, or tracking an Entity. #2628
• Fixed a bug that caused Corridor and PolylineVolume geometry to be incorrect for sharp corners #2626

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Cesium 1.8

1.8 - 2015-04-01

Highlights include:

• Added Entity.show, a boolean for hiding or showing an entity and its children.
• Added Entity.isShowing, a read-only property that indicates if an entity is currently being drawn.
• Added support for the KML visibility element.
• Added PolylineArrowMaterialProperty to allow entities materials to use polyline arrows.

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Cesium 1.7.1

1.7.1 - 2015-03-06

Highlights include:

• Fixed a crash in InfoBox that would occur when attempting to display plain text.
• Fixed a crash when loading KML features that have no description and an empty ExtendedData node.
• Fixed a bug in Color.fromCssColorString where undefined would be returned for the CSS color transparent.
• Added Color.TRANSPARENT.

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Cesium 1.7

1.7 - 2015-03-02

Highlights include:

• Added initial support for KML 2.2 via KmlDataSource. Check out the new Sandcastle Demo and the reference documentation for more details.
• InfoBox sanitization now relies on iframe sandboxing. This allows for much more content to be displayed in the InfoBox (and still be secure).
• Added InfoBox.frame which is the instance of the iframe that is used to host description content. Sanitization can be controlled via the frame's sandbox attribute. See the above link for additional information.
• Worked around a bug in Safari that caused most of Cesium to be broken. Cesium should now work much better on Safari for both desktop and mobile.

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Cesium 1.6

1.6 - 2015-02-02

Highlights include:

• Fixed an issue which caused order independent translucency to be broken on many video cards. Disabling order independent translucency should no longer be necessary.
• GeoJsonDataSource now supports polygons with holes.
• Many Sandcastle examples have been rewritten to make use of the newly improved Entity API.

See the change log for a full list of changes