Figure our how to make videos with Cesium

[rjm11010]

I have not idea how hard this is with Cesium, but I'm hoping they somehow using the time information from the data to make it easy.

In either case, it's something we have to figure out.

[joh13010]

So I have been working the last few days to make some sort of menu overlay to be able to upload a CSV file to the program. I thought I remember you saying before that Cesium had its own functionality that allowed you to create a menu overlay on top of the map but I don't see much documentation for it besides the Sandcastle toolbar functionalities which aren't applicable since I'm not using their Sandcastle environment to write my code. Is there anything that you remember that might help or would it be best for me to just make my own using HTML elements? Thank you

[rjm11010]

I'm really sorry for replying so late to this. I vote for whatever is easier.
We can have the program split into 2 pages.

1. To intake the data
2. Present it

I will look into it myself as well tomorrow (Friday 21).

[joh13010]

Hey Reynaldo,
So I am having some trouble getting the timeline on the page to work properly. My goal is to set the bounds of the timeline to the first and last times included in the uploaded CSV file. Then on each tick, a function would be called that would check whether a new data point should be displayed or the current point should remain. I'm having a hard time differentiating between Cesium's Clock, TimeLine, and Animation and have been unable to change the range of the timeline at all using arbitrary dates that I hardcoded in for the time being. Do you think you could look into this when you get a chance? Thanks

[rjm11010]

Okay. Can you push your latest changes?

I found a way to overlay html elements on Cesium to show the Metadata. You're right that Cesium doesn't have their own elements for that.

You would create the element something like this.

[joh13010]

Hey Reynaldo,
I was just wondering if you could take a quick look at the program and possibly see why the flyTo function isn't working when points are updated at the end of my flyToPoint function. After that, the program should be all set to go. Thanks.

[rjm11010]

Okay. I'm taking a look now. Sorry for not getting back to your earlier issue.

[rjm11010]

I think it's because flyTo and zoomTo are asynchronous methods they don't gaurantee completetion. That's why I always see the last point plotted, and not the others. I'm trying to think of a solution.

P.S. I'm sorry for giving you out of order data. I'm going to upload data order from earliest to latest (i.e. increasing order)