Local scene grid

[ChristianMorin]

Hello,

I'm using a local scene with 4.0 beta 3 and was wondering if there is a way to turn off the mesh grid that represents the ground. I'm not using a basemap but the grid remains....

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Christian.

[RickeyFight]

Christian,

Can you post the script you are using?

Is it possible to add a transparency to the grid?

[ChristianMorin]

Hi Rickey,

     The easiest way to get the grid shown is to use the local scene sandbox example https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/beta/sample-code/sandbox/sandbox.html?sample=scene-local  and remove the basemap from the new WebScene declaration.

   I don't think there is an actual way to access the grid....

Cheers,
Christian.

[KristianEkenes · Accepted solution]

Hi Christian,

There currently isn't a way to remove the mesh or make it transparent in a SceneView. This is something we have discussed and have plans to implement in the future. However, we don't have a timeline for this yet.

All the best,

Kristian

[ChristianMorin]

Thanks Kristian. I'll keep an eye out.

[MarkusSchenardi]

Hi Kristian, 

Any news on these request?

Regards, Markus

[KristianEkenes]

I don't have "official" news on this. But I will say we are very close on this one. I don't want to make any promises prematurely but I think you'll see this soon.

[ChristianMorin]

Hi Kristian,

    I've been playing around and found an "undocumented/unsupported" way to do it....

   Using the the following sample: http://jscore.esri.com/javascript/sample-code/sandbox/sandbox.html?sample=scene-local

If you add the following code after the view is created, it will "turn off" the grid:

var terrain;

view.then(function () {

    terrain = view._basemapTerrain;

    terrain.on("load", function () {

        terrain.opacity = 0;

    });

});

So the only bad part here is accessing the private _basemapTerrain property. So maybe a basemapOpacity property could added to the SceneView (or something like it)?

Cheers,

Christian.

[KristianEkenes]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I'll bring this up to the 3D team to see if we can get this exposed as a public property.

[AaronCole1]

Thought I'd tag on to this thread because I'm trying to accomplish something similar and there's already some smart people in the room.  I'd really like to remove the mesh grid but only where my custom ground surface and basemap are NOT.  Any ideas? the clippingArea property isn't working to accomplish this on my SceneView (could be I'm not implementing it correctly).  If I set the basemapTerrain opacity to 0 I lose everything.  I feel like there must be a solution out there.  We're using 4 custom elevation layers created from archival maps and historical references of the city of Saqqara in ancient Egypt.  The tint in the image below represents the extent of all of our data, I'd really prefer to leave it as is without resorting to interpolating the surface outwards just to deal with the unsightliness of the grid. Thanks in advance!