Hi,
I know that FME has WebMapTiler as one of transformer utilities and it's good for creating image tiles in 2d web map applications.
However, as 3d web gis is evolving and as there is more possibilities to build nice 3d web gis applications using libraries like CesiumJS and similair, i wonder if there is any plan in near future to enable tiling of 3d datasets using FME.
For example, that you have 3d mesh and you want to create quantized-mesh tiles using some FME Transformer ?
I know it's probably not so easy to implement at the moment but I would like to know if it's something that is on TODO list or not?
Thank you and kind regards
Ivan
FME can already write a lot of content types for Cesium like 3D tiles (as mesh and as point clouds) and rasters. Supporting terrain tiles as quantized mesh tiles would make FME almost a complete a solution for Cesium content authoring purposes.
Main advantage of quantized mesh tiles is speed of rendering on client side and of course small file size.
Format is very similar to other TIN formats FME already supports, so this should not be exceptionally difficult job to be added. HERE has explained in detail why quantized meshes are the winning solution for terrain modelling in Cesium; https://developer.here.com/blog/visualizing-large-scale-terrain-with-open-source-tool-tin-terrain They also released some code https://github.com/heremaps/tin-terrain3D should be top priority with Safe
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We're going fast with 3D...