Cesium for Omniverse v0.12.1

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This release requires Kit 105.1 (USD Composer 2023.2.0).

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🕙 Change Log

0.12.0

• Added a quick add button for Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles through ion.
• Added support for globe anchors.
• Added support for multiple imagery layers.
• Added alpha property to imagery layers.
• Added support for reading textures and imagery layers in MDL.
• Added Cesium for Omniverse Python API, see the cesium.omniverse.api module.
• Fixed debug colors not working for tiles with vertex colors.
• Fixed hangs when loading tilesets by setting omnihydra.parallelHydraSprimSync to false.
• Basis Universal textures are now decoded to the native BCn texture format instead of RGBA8 in Kit 105.1 and above.

0.12.1

• Fixed version numbers.

Cesium for Omniverse v0.11.0

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This release requires Kit 105.1 (USD Composer 2023.2.0).

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🕙 Change Log

• Breaking change: Cesium for Omniverse now requires Kit 105.1 or above (USD Composer 2023.2.0 or above).
• Reduced the number of materials created when loading un-textured tilesets.
• Added debug option cesium:debug:disableGeoreferencing to CesiumDataPrim to disable georeferencing and view tilesets in ECEF coordinates.
• Improvements to C++ testing infrastructure.

Cesium for Omniverse v0.10.0

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This release requires Kit 105.0 (USD Composer 2023.1.0 or 2023.1.1).

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🕙 Change Log

• Improved error message if fetching tileset fails
• Added basic point cloud support
• Fixed loading extension in Omniverse Code 2023.1.1
• Fixed crashes when reloading tileset
• Fixed memory leak when removing tileset mid-load
• Fixed several other bugs related to removing tilesets mid-load
• Upgraded to cesium-native v0.26.0

Cesium for Omniverse v0.9.0

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This release requires Kit 105.0 (USD Composer 2023.1.0 or 2023.1.1).

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🕙 Change Log

• Breaking change: CesiumTilesetPrim now inherits from UsdGeomGprim instead of UsdGeomBoundable.
• Improved texture loading performance by moving texture loading to a worker thread.
• Improved performance when refining with parent tile's imagery by sharing the same texture instead of duplicating it.
• Added support for assigning materials to a tileset.
• Improved styling of credits.
• Visually enable/disable top bar buttons based on sign-in status.
• Fixed bug where not all Cesium windows would not appear in Windows menu.

Cesium for Omniverse v0.8.0

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This release requires Kit 105.0 (USD Composer 2023.1.0 or 2023.1.1).

For installation instructions, see Cesium for Omniverse Quickstart.

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🕙 Change Log

• Breaking change: Cesium for Omniverse now requires Kit 105 or above (USD Composer 2023.1.0 or above).
• Breaking change: broke out georeference attributes from CesiumDataPrim into dedicated CesiumGeoreferencePrim class.
• Breaking change: CesiumTilesetPrim is now a concrete type that inherits from UsdGeomBoundable.
• Breaking change: CesiumTilesetPrim now has an explicit binding to a CesiumGeoreferencePrim.
• Breaking change: default values for attributes are no longer written out when saved as .usd files.
• Added ability to zoom to extents on tilesets.
• Added vertex color support.
• Added cesium.omniverse.TILESET_LOADED Carbonite event.
• Added more statistics to the Cesium Debugging window.
• Fixed holes when camera is moving.
• Fixed orphaned tiles.
• Fixed credit parsing issue.
• Improved performance when refining with parent tile's imagery.
• Improved performance when creating Fabric geometry.
• Switched base material to gltf/pbr.mdl.

Cesium for Omniverse v0.7.0

• Set better default values when loading glTFs with the KHR_materials_unlit extension. This improves the visual quality of Google 3D Tiles.
• Improved installation process by forcing application reload when Cesium for Omniverse is first enabled.
• Changed material loading color from red to black.
• Added /CesiumSession prim for storing ephemeral state in the Session Layer, including ecefToUsdTransform.
• Fixed credits not appearing on all viewports.
• Improved readability of debug statistics.
• Integrated Cesium Native's performance tracing utility.
• Updated to Cesium Native 0.24.0 which adds support for 3D Tiles 1.1 implicit tiling.

Cesium for Omniverse v0.6.2

• Added more rendering statistics to the Cesium Debugging window.
• Added debug options to the top-level Cesium prim.
• Fixed issue where cesium:enableFrustumCulling wasn't appearing in the USD schema UI.
• Fixed issue where some Fabric shader node prims were not being deleted.

Cesium for Omniverse v0.6.1

• Added premake5.lua to cesium.omniverse and cesium.usd.plugins to better support Kit templates.
• Fixed crash in the Cesium Debugging window when reloading a stage.

Cesium for Omniverse v0.6.0

• Added option to show credits on screen.
• Fixed issue where tileset traversal was happening on hidden tilesets.
• Fixed issue where tile render resources were not being released back into the Fabric mesh pool in certain cases.
• Fixed regression where the texture wrap mode was no longer clamping to edge.

Cesium for Omniverse v0.5.0

• Added material pool for better performance and to reduce texture/material loading artifacts.
• Added support for multiple viewports.
• Fixed red flashes when materials are loading.
• Fixed cyan flashes when textures are loading.
• Fixed adding imagery as base layer for existing tileset.
• Fixed Fabric types for tilesetId and tileId.
• Upgraded to cesium-native v0.23.0.