LuciadFusion Release notes

Fixed an issue where S-63 catalogs were not recognized, and decoded as S-57 catalogs instead, resulting in low-level errors.

This happened when an S-63 catalog had entries for cells (.000 files) that were missing on disk.

Added the ability to recognize numeric values in feature metadata in Binz datasets.
In the Binz data format, all feature metadata are stored as String values, even if they represent numerical values. If the metadata reader discovers that for a given metadata key, the values for all features represent a number, the metadata for that key will now be decoded as numbers.
By doing this, we make sure that these numerical values are encoded as binary values in OGC 3D Tiles, and can be used in styling expressions in LuciadRIA.

• Airspaces that crossed the 180th meridian,
• Airspaces that started with an arc segment.

When decoding Binz data, and no georeference information can be found, the TLcdBinzModelDecoder will use a cartesian reference as fallback. If no reference information can be found next to the input data, the decode method will now load the data in its original, non-georeferenced coordinate system, instead of failing.
Note: Data that is decoded in its original coordinate system, can not be visualized on a geographical map. The dataset must be geo-located with an external tool, after conversion has been done.

The LuciadFusion documentation now contains a dedicated section on creating a configuration with multiple servers in a failover and/or load balancing scenario.

Refer to the Multi-node section of the LuciadFusion Platform documentation for detailed instructions.

Raster layers now support bicubic interpolation, which greatly improves the image quality at high zoom levels. Bicubic filtering is enabled by setting the interpolation type of TLspRasterStyle to ELcdInterpolationType.CUBIC.

The LuciadFusion Studio web app now allows users to add Data or Styles directly without the need for the source files to be part of a Data Root. This can be done clicking the ADD DATA or ADD STYLE on the DATA or STYLES page and providing the file path to the source file of the Data or Style. The Data or Style can be updated by clicking the REFRESH button on the detail page of the Data or Style. Data added directly can also be removed by clicking the REMOVE button.

LuciadFusion administrators have the option to disable the advanced indexing of data. This may affect the performance of searches in the Studio UI but makes it possible to deploy Studio in multi-node mode. See configuration file application-fusion.common.yml.

The LuciadFusion Studio REST API now allows users to add Data or Styles directly without the need for the source files to be part of a Data Root. This can be done by supplying the path of the source file for the Data or Style to Studio through the REST API. Operations to update and remove Data or styles that were added directly have also been added to the REST API.

More specifically, the following additions have been made to the REST API:

• POST /api/data: allows Data to be added directly to Studio.
• POST /api/styles: allows Styles to be added directly to Studio.
• PUT /api/data/{id}/refresh: allows Data to be updated based on the changes made to the source file(s).
• PUT /api/styles/{id}/refresh: allows Styles to be updated based on the changes made to the source file.
• DELETE /api/data/{id}: allows Data to be removed from Studio.
• DELETE /api/styles/{id}: allows Styles to be removed from Studio.

You can try out these new operations in the API Console, available at /api/console of a running Fusion development server. You can read in more detail about all the operations in the Developer's guide, available at /api/documentation.

Users will notice that adding certain Data directly to LuciadFusion Studio will be much quicker than crawling if the Data consists of many individual files (e.g. OGC 3D Tiles). This is because adding Data directly to LuciadFusion does not require evaluating all individual files.

You can now decode and visualize MBTiles files with image tiles in Lightspeed and GXY views, and LuciadFusion WMS/WMTS services.

For more details, see:

• The MBTiles entry in the Data Formats documentation section
• The TLcdMBTilesModelDecoder reference documentation

Data formats that contain panoramic images can now be decoded and served with LuciadFusion for visualisation in LuciadRIA.

Out-of-the-box, the Luciad products support reading panorama data from from E57 files and Pegasus spherical image tracks.

For unsupported formats, the API provides means to create custom data models. See packages com.luciad.panorama.model and com.luciad.panorama.transformation.

The API provides a way to export any valid panorama model to a standardized CubeMap model. See TLcdLuciadPanoramaModelEncoder for more information. The CubeMap model can be served with LuciadFusion as a Panoramics service.

Example of a cubemap created from panoramic image data

For more details, see the Panoramic images reference guide in the documentation.

You can now also load image data from E57 files.

To do this you will need the LuciadFusion "Advanced Raster" option.

You cannot use TLcdE57ModelDecoder directly for this. Please refer to the LuciadFusion "Panoramic image data" documentation for details.

TLcd3DTilesProcessorBuilder: Added support for metadata when processing OBJ mesh files. This metadata can be used for selection. By default every single OBJ processed by the 3D fusion engine will have a unique id. On top of that, if the OBJ file contains grouping information, every single group will also get a unique id.

The unique id is stored as an integer in the batch table of the produced 3D Tiles dataset.

Next to this, the source file and group name are also stored in the batch table.

Added the ability to customize what metadata ends up in a dataset processed by TLcd3DTilesProcessorBuilder.

Have a look at the ILcd3DTilesProcessorMetadataMapper, which can be implemented using the TLcd3DTilesProcessorBuilder#metadataMapper method.

The details on how to use this are described in the customize metadata guide.

TLcd3DTilesProcessorBuilder can now configure the number of vertices and the texture size for individual tiles.

We also decreased the default number of vertices and texture size for enhanced performance. Refer to the verticesPerTile and textureSize methods for more information.

On top of that, we also added an option to automatically drop geometrically complex objects in their entirety on simplified levels. You can find this option in the method TLcd3DTilesProcessorBuilder.dropSmallComplexParts().

The optional ArcSDE component (com.luciad.format.arcsde) has been removed from the product after being deprecated since the 2016.0 release.

This component provided support for visualize data from an ESRI ArcSDE. However ArcSDE has been discontinued by Esri as of ArcGIS 10.3 in 2015, and you cannot buy it anymore.

As we're not aware of any customers using ArcSDE anymore, we removed it from all our products including LuciadFusion and Lucy. Consult the release notes of those products for more details.

• ALcdMS2525bIconProvider
• TLcdMS2525bIconProvider
• TLcdMS2525bSelectionIconProvider
• TLcdEditableMS2525bUnitCustomizer
• TLcdEditableMS2525bUnitBeanInfo
• ALcdMS2525bModifier
• TLcdMS2525bAffiliationModifier
• TLcdMS2525bCountryModifier
• TLcdMS2525bEchelonModifier
• TLcdMS2525bMobilityEquipmentModifier
• TLcdMS2525bOrderOfBattleModifier
• TLcdMS2525bStatusModifier
• TLcdTextModifiersPanel
• TLcdMS2525bGXYLayerFactory
• TLcdMS2525bUnitIconPainterEditor
• TLcdMS2525bUnitNewControllerModel