Cesium Native is a set of C++ libraries for 3D geospatial, including:

• 3D Tiles runtime streaming
• lightweight glTF serialization and deserialization, and
• high-precision 3D geospatial math types and functions, including support for global-scale WGS84 ellipsoids.

Cesium Native powers Cesium's runtime integrations for Cesium for Unreal, Cesium for Unity, Cesium for Omniverse, and Cesium for O3DE. Cesium Native is the foundational layer for any 3D geospatial software, especially those that want to stream 3D Tiles.

A high-level Cesium platform architecture with the runtime integrations powered by Cesium Native and streaming content from Cesium ion.

Apache 2.0. Cesium Native is free for both commercial and non-commercial use.

• Visual Studio 2019 (or newer), GCC v11.x+, Clang 12+. Other compilers are likely to work but are not regularly tested.
• CMake 3.15+
• For best JPEG-decoding performance, you must have nasm installed so that CMake can find it. Everything will work fine without it, just slower.

Check out the repo with:

git clone git@github.com:CesiumGS/cesium-native.git --recurse-submodules

If you forget the --recurse-submodules, nothing will work because the git submodules will be missing. You should be able to fix it with:

git submodule update --init --recursive

## Windows compilation using Visual Studio
cmake -B build -S . -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64"
cmake --build build --config Debug
cmake --build build --config Release

## Linux compilation
cmake -B build -S .
cmake --build build

1. Install the CMake Tools extension. It should prompt you to generate project files from CMake.
2. On Windows, choose Visual Studio 2017 Release - amd64 as the kit to build. Or choose an appropriate kit for your platform.
3. Then press Ctrl-Shift-P and execute the CMake: Build task or press F7.

1. Open the CMake UI (cmake-gui)
2. Under "Where is the source code", point to your repo
3. Specify your output folder in "Where to build the binaries"
4. Click "Configure".
5. Under "Specify the generator for this project", choose the VS version on your system
6. Click Finish, wait for the process to finish
7. Click Generate

Look for cesium-native.sln in your output folder.

Unit tests can also be run from this solution, under the cesium-native-tests project.

• Install Doxygen.
• Run: cmake --build build --target cesium-native-docs
• Open build/doc/html/index.html

Much of the code in CesiumGltf, Cesium3DTiles, CesiumGltfReader, and Cesium3DTilesReader is generated from the standards' JSON Schema specifications. To regenerate the code:

• Make sure you have a relatively recent version of Node.js installed.
• Install dependencies by running:

npm install
cd tools/generate-classes
npm install
cd ../..

• From the repo root directory, run these commands
  • npm run generate-gltf
  • npm run generate-3d-tiles
  • npm run generate-quantized-mesh-terrain
• On Windows, the line endings of the generated files will be different than those checked into the repo. Just git add them and git will fix the line endings (no need to commit).