topic Re: 3D Tiles in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

3D Tiles

Bernd_Loigge — Wed, 17 May 2023 06:32:21 GMT

Hi,

Is there a possibility to embed Google 3D-Tiles using the ESRI JS SDK? Which layer type would we need to use? If there is none available, is there a way to write our own to integrate the 3D-Tiles, any tutorials available?

Re: 3D Tiles

Bernd_Loigge — Mon, 22 May 2023 09:16:37 GMT

ESRI Team?

Re: 3D Tiles

VeronikaLanders — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:54:21 GMT

Hi Bernd,

thanks for reaching out on this topic.

Not yet but we are actively looking into it. It is indeed an interesting opportunity to move forward - supporting our customers to benefit from globally available mesh content through our platform.

To further discuss your interest and requirements please reach out to Andreas Lippold, our product manager on this topic.

Best,
Veronika

Re: 3D Tiles

wolfvincent — Thu, 25 May 2023 18:57:26 GMT

This would be a great future in the SDK, the only thing that makes Google have better basemaps (in our case).

Re: 3D Tiles

VictorBerchet — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:22:49 GMT

It looks like this is now possible with JS API 4.29:

const layer = new IntegratedMesh3DTilesLayer({ url: "https://tile.googleapis.com/v1/3dtiles/root.json", title: "Google tiles", customParameters: { // see https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/tile/3d-tiles-overview "key": "YOUR API KEY" } });

However it looks like some tiles failed to load:

Re: 3D Tiles

dani — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:38:24 GMT

The JavaScript Maps SDK supports loading integrated mesh 3D Tiles data as of version 4.29. We do not yet have official support for Google's Photorealistic 3D Tiles but we are working on it.

@VictorBerchet Would you mind letting me know the location where you encountered this issue?

Re: 3D Tiles

VictorBerchet — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:14:59 GMT

The picture in my previous post is around Grenoble, France. At that time any location/zoom were affected but it started working again shortly after I posted.

My thought is that some caching get corrupted while I tested with an invalid API key.

Thanks for adding support, it looks really great!

Re: 3D Tiles

wolfvincent — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:56:56 GMT

This works perfect in my case, thanks for updating 🙂

Re: 3D Tiles

VictorBerchet — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:53:41 GMT

I have a feature request for the IntegratedMesh3DTilesLayer.

Everything works great but the altitude exaggeration (using the documented method). My guess is that's because elevation is built-in the 3D tiles and the elevation layer is not actually used.

Is there any way to have altitude exaggeration with the IntegratedMesh3DTilesLayer? (I have tried setting the parent property to the elevation layer but it does not seem to do anything).

Maybe there should be a field in elevationInfo for that?

Thanks!

Re: 3D Tiles

dani — Mon, 06 May 2024 12:10:26 GMT

Hi Victor,

Apologies for the late response. You're right that elevation exaggeration is currently not supported with the IntegratedMesh3DTilesLayer, but I can make a note of your request in case it's something that can be added in the future.

Re: 3D Tiles

VictorBerchet — Mon, 06 May 2024 13:00:09 GMT

Thanks for your answer @dani - that would be awesome!

Re: 3D Tiles

Bernd_Loigge — Mon, 06 May 2024 13:31:26 GMT

Hi,

We have tested the IntegratedMesh3DTilesLayers as well and in our opinion they are only usable if the altitude can be adjusted.

Re: 3D Tiles

dani — Thu, 23 May 2024 13:03:26 GMT

Hi @Bernd_Loigge ,

Just to clarify, it is possible to adjust the absolute height offset of an IntegratedMesh3DTilesLayer using the elevationInfo property.

Exaggerating the elevation, however, is not currently supported. If this is what you're hoping to do, maybe you could provide some example use cases of what you're trying to accomplish? That would help us for future prioritization.

Thanks!

Re: 3D Tiles

VictorBerchet — Fri, 24 May 2024 05:26:03 GMT

I find the view to be more realistic with a 1.3x altitude exaggeration