After a long development cycle, Giro3D 0.43 is available.
The Globe entity
We were talking about it in a previous article, the main feature of this release is of course the Globe entity, allowing the display of planets, stars or any celestial body of your choice.
Using the same API as the Map entity, it can contain an elevation layer to display terrain, as well as an unlimited number of color layers (satellite imagery, maps, vectors, cloud coverage…).
Atmospheric effects
Complementing the Globe entity, you can also combine your globes with three new entities:
- Atmosphere, to represent the atmosphere of a planet as seen from space,
- SkyDome, to represent the sky as seen from the surface of the planet, including atmospheric scattering
- Glow, to represent a light-emitting globe, such as stars.
See the article dedicated to atmospheric effects.
Spherical panoramic images
The second major feature of this release is the new SphericalPanorama entity, to display spherical panoramic images, such as the ones used by Google Street View and Panoramax, among others.
Other additions
- Fix blurry tiles issue when zooming in or out in maps
- Support of WMS-T
- Multiples fixes on FeatureCollection entity.
