This branch targets Unreal Engine 4. There is also a branch targeting Unreal Engine 5
Cesium for Unreal brings the 3D geospatial ecosystem to Unreal Engine. By combining a high-accuracy full-scale WGS84 globe, open APIs and open standards for spatial indexing such as 3D Tiles, and cloud-based real-world content from Cesium ion with Unreal Engine, this project enables a new era of 3D geospatial software.
Download Cesium for Unreal from Unreal Engine Marketplace
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Cesium for Unreal streams real-world 3D content such as high-resolution photogrammetry, terrain, imagery, and 3D buildings from Cesium ion and other sources, available as optional commercial subscriptions. The plugin includes Cesium ion integration for instant access to global high-resolution 3D content ready for runtime streaming. Cesium ion users can also leverage cloud-based 3D tiling pipelines to create end-to-end workflows to transform massive heterogenous content into semantically-rich 3D Tiles, ready for streaming to Unreal Engine.
Cesium for Unreal supports cloud and private network content and services based on open standards and APIs. You are free to use any combination of supported content sources, standards, APIs with Cesium for Unreal.
Using Cesium ion helps support Cesium for Unreal development. ❤️
Cesium for Unreal is tightly integrated with Unreal Engine making it possible to visualize and interact with real-world content in editor and at runtime. The plugin also has support for Unreal Engine physics, collisions, character interaction, and landscaping tools. Leverage decades worth of cutting-edge advancements in Unreal Engine and geospatial to create cohesive, interactive, and realistic simulations and applications with Cesium for Unreal.
Apache 2.0. Cesium for Unreal is free for both commercial and non-commercial use.
The easiest way to access Cesium for Unreal is by downloading officially released versions from the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
If you would like to access pre-release, development versions of the plugin, Cesium for Unreal has Travis CI integration that prepares packages with each CI build. To access these packages, click the ✔️ icon on the GitHub branch or commit and click the Details next to plugin-package-combined. You can extract the downloaded plugin package into your Unreal project's Plugins directory.
See the Developer Setup Guide to learn how to set up a development environment for Cesium for Unreal, allowing you to compile it, customize it, and contribute to its development.