topic Re: Web Scene Viewer or CityEngine Web Viewer? in 3D Questions

Web Scene Viewer or CityEngine Web Viewer?

SheylaSantana — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:40:02 GMT

I am about to publish my project developed in CityEngine in ArcGIS online and I realize that I have two options:

WebScene Viewer or CityEngine Viewer.

I couldn't find many information about the good and bad points about each one.

Web Scene is for projects exported from ArcScene, right? And CityEngine Viewer for files *.3ws shared from Cityengine, correct?

Which one should I use? Is WebScene viewer has limitation of the size of the data?

Any input is more than welcome.

Thanks,

Sheyla

Re: Web Scene Viewer or CityEngine Web Viewer?

RussRoberts — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:06:23 GMT

Here is a little comparison list, let me know if you have any other questions.

CityEngine Web Viewer:
* loads 3ws files (aka CityEngine Web Scene)
* displays a single static 3ws scene, exported from CE or ArcScene
* small local extent in cartesian coordinate system. (fishtank view)
* no authoring after publish (no basemaps, no adding of layers)
* initial one-time download, no streaming data.

Scene Viewer:
* loads web scenes
* displays a web scene created from Scene Viewer (AGOL) or Pro
* displays a collection of portal layers: Scene Layer, Feature Layer, Image Layer...
* World-extent in spherical globe rendering (or planar in local scene mode)
* World-extent basemaps
* loads data progressively
* Scene Viewer allows authoring of scenes, i.e. adding/removing layers, modifying symbology, create slides

* Use web scenes in WebApp Builder, Templates & 4.x JS API

Re: Web Scene Viewer or CityEngine Web Viewer?

SheylaSantana — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:40:59 GMT

Thank you, Russell.

Really useful your information!

I can see many good points in Scene Viewer! It works with *.spk, right?

The only thing is that I can't see "my contents" when I try to add layer. I created a scene layer package in Cityengine, upload and share.

Any ideas why "my content" does not appear?

The same spk can be read by arcgis earth, right?

Thank you once more!

Re: Web Scene Viewer or CityEngine Web Viewer?

RussRoberts — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:53:47 GMT

The scene viewer will not read the spks but you can publish a scene layer from the spk. From the item details there will be a publish button that will create a scene layer.

Re: Web Scene Viewer or CityEngine Web Viewer?

SheylaSantana — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:14:19 GMT

If this bottom does not appear is it because I don't have permission? It should be next to this "download", "update" and "Share" bottom, right?

Does ArcGIS Earth spk file?

Re: Web Scene Viewer or CityEngine Web Viewer?

RussRoberts — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:44:26 GMT

Yup, you will want a role with the ability to publish scene layers

when you do, the item details page will look like this.

Re: Web Scene Viewer or CityEngine Web Viewer?

SheylaSantana — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:44:43 GMT

Many thanks for all your help!