Test deployment of Cesium to serve local 3D Tiles

This repository is a fork of the cesium-webpack-example and it has been adapted to serve 3D Tiles from a local directory, instead of Cesium Ion.

Notes

Cartesian coordinates are in EPSG:4978. Degrees are in EPSG:4979.

Cartesian3(1215107.76, -4736682.90, 4081926.09 does not work. Use Cartesian3.fromDegrees(-75.6120945, 0, 400) to set the location from a EPSG:4979 point.

Instructions for serving the 3D Tiles with a local server

• Download and install Node.js and npm from https://nodejs.org/en/download/

• At the command line, run

  npm install http-server -g

  This will install the 'http-server' app from https://github.com/http-party/http-server globally

• In the directory that contains the data (the tileset.json), run

  http-server -a localhost -p 8003 --cors=http://localhost:8080/

  This will start the server, under the address localhost, using port 8003. The cors parameter will allow the Cesium to access the data from this locally running server.

In the Cesium, a tileset can be created by setting its url to point to the tileset that should be loaded from the local sever:

const tileset = viewer.scene.primitives.add(new Cesium.Cesium3DTileset({
    url : 'http://localhost:8003/example/tileset.json'
}));

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cesium-webpack-example

A minimal recommended setup for an applications using Cesium with Webpack.

Running this application

npm install
npm start

Navigate to localhost:8080.

Available scripts

• npm start - Runs a webpack build with webpack.config.js and starts a development server
• npm run build - Runs a webpack build with webpack.config.js

Requiring Cesium in your application

We recommend importing named exports from the Cesium ES module, via the import keyword. This allows webpack to tree shake your application automatically.

Import named modules from Cesium

import { Color } from 'cesium';
var c = Color.fromRandom();

Import Cesium static asset files

import "cesium/Build/Cesium/Widgets/widgets.css";

Removing pragmas

To remove pragmas such as a traditional Cesium release build, use the strip-pragma-loader.

Install the plugin with npm,

npm install strip-pragma-loader --save-dev

and include the loader in module.rules with debug set to false.

rules: [{
	test: /\.js$/,
	enforce: 'pre',
	include: path.resolve(__dirname, cesiumSource),
	use: [{
		loader: 'strip-pragma-loader',
		options: {
		    pragmas: {
				debug: false
			}
		}
	}]
}]

Contributions

Pull requests are appreciated. Please use the same Contributor License Agreement (CLA) used for Cesium.

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