LuciadRIA Release notes

• It is now possible to configure the symbol frame color to be used for icon symbols. This color can be configured using MilSymStyle.symbolFrameColor. The default value is #000000 (black). This custom frame color is ignored in some specific cases where the frame color indicates the affiliation of the symbol.
• It is now possible to configure the alternate fill color for partially filled icon symbols. This color can be configured using MilSymStyle.alternateFillColor. The default value is rgba(0,0,0,0) (transparent).

Military Symbol icon styling options.

Fixed an issue where width values in some tactical graphics labels were fetched from the "Additional Information" modifier instead of from the "Width" modifier.

Affected symbols:

Fixed an issue where min/max altitude values in some tactical graphics labels were fetched from the "Additional Information" modifier instead of from the "Altitude/Depth" modifier.

Affected symbols:

Fixed an issue where the APP-6A and APP-6B "Antitank Obstacle - Obstacles: Tetrahedrons Dragons Teeth and Other Similar Obstacles" symbol did not have an icon representation.

Moreover, it is now possible to configure the icon type of this symbol, it can be represented by a different icon depending on its type: "Fixed And Prefabricated", "Movable" or "Movable And Prefabricated". Unfortunately the APP-6A and APP-6B specifications do not indicate how this obstacle type should be encoded in the symbol.

The approach taken here is similar to other Luciad products: the obstacle type is encoded in the typeOfEquipment text modifier of the symbol. The value should either be one of the following values (casing is not important):

Different icon representations based on typeOfEquipment.

• copy-webpack-plugin: updated to version 14.0.0
• terser-webpack-plugin: updated to version 5.4.0
• webpack: updated to version 5.105.4
• webpack-cli: updated to version 6.0.1
• webpack-dev-server: updated to version 5.2.1

Partial support for the military standard APP-6E has been added. It is now possible to create and visualize MilitarySymbol instances for the APP-6E military standard.

APP-6E support is currently limited to the Cyberspace icon symbols. All supported symbol sets are listed in the supported military standards article .

To visualize the supported symbols, you can run the "Military Symbology Overview" sample, located in samples/symbology/allsymbols within the release directory.

• RIAMap.pickClosestObjectAsync
• RIAMap.pickClosestObjectRectangleAsync
• RIAMap.pickAtAsync
• RIAMap.pickAtRectangleAsync

• Constructive Geometry
  • ConstructiveGeometryFactory.createEllipsoidal()
  • ConstructiveGeometryFactory.createSpherical()
  • ConstructiveGeometryFactory.createCartesian()
• Panoramics:
  • GeoCanvas.drawPanorama()
• Military Symbology
  • SymbologyProvider.getSymbology()

          const editController = new EditController(layer, feature, {
            handleIconStyle: {
              image: createSquare({
                width: 8,
                height: 8,
                fill: "white",
                stroke: "black",
                strokeWidth: 1
              })
            }
          });
        

        const editController = new EditController(layer, feature, {
          styles: {
            handleIconStyle: {
              image: createSquare({
                width: 8,
                height: 8,
                fill: "white",
                stroke: "black",
                strokeWidth: 1
              })
            }
          }
        });
      

• Blending of (semi-)transparent colors now happens in linear color space. In previous LuciadRIA versions, it happened in gamma color space (sRGB). This move solves blending artifacts, but it can make blended colors slightly brighter. This is especially noticeable when rendering thin lines or thin text.
  
• Texture sampling now happens in linear color space. In previous LuciadRIA versions, it happened in gamma color space (sRGB). Like for blending, this move solves minor artifacts, but the texture sampling might look slightly differently than before.
  
• Lighting now happens in linear color space. In previous versions, it happened in gamma color space (sRGB). This move results in a harder but more correct lighting gradient. It can make parts of the lit objects brighter or darker than before.
  
• Image-based lighting now correctly interprets the colors when using a PNG or JPEG as reflection map. In previous versions it interpreted these colors as linear colors, which made the lighting brighter than it should.

• expected-lite: updated to version 0.9.0
• glu: updated to version 1.3+7
• libjpeg: updated to version 9f
• libwebp: updated to version 1.5.0

• glad
• protobuf
• rapidxml-ns

• The RIAMap.webGLContext property has been removed. Has been removed in favor of RIAMap.webGPUDevice, which means listening for WebGL context lost events is no longer supported. Instead, listen to WebGPU device loss events. See Dealing with WebGPU device losses for more information.
• A new event, "WebGPUDeviceChanged", has been added to the RIAMap API.
• The RIAMap's "PostRender" event now uses GPUTexture.

A framework dedicated to the editing of military symbology has been added to LuciadRIA. The LuciadRIA API now includes:

• The MilitarySymbologyCreateController, to improve user experience and correctness when creating multi-point MilitarySymbol tactical graphic instances.
• A MilitarySymbologyEditController to improve user experience and correctness when editing multi-point MilitarySymbol tactical graphic instances.
• A MilitarySymbologyEditor. It is used under the hood of the new controllers, and ensures correct editing behaviour enforcing the necessary constraints for the different tactical graphics.

With the introduction of this dedicated military symbology editing framework, the previous default editing mechanism using the ShapeEditor will break. All tactical graphics will be editable as if they were plain Polyline shapes, without any behavior specific to military symbology.

For more information about using this new editing framework, see the migration guide. For more information about the behavior of this new editor for different types of tactical graphics, see the creation and editing article.