Quantized Mesh ⛰

Cesium Quantized Mesh (.terrain)

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.terrain · application/vnd.quantized-mesh

Quantized Mesh is Cesium's binary terrain format for streaming 3D relief into a browser: a triangle mesh with vertices quantized to 16 bits and edge indices for seamless tile stitching. On osm2cdr the export works like this: we return one valid .terrain tile for the chosen area — a regular 65x65 grid (4225 vertices, 8192 triangles). Elevations are read from the global Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (about 30 m per sample); where there is no coverage (ocean, polar latitudes) the tile honestly becomes flat at sea level. This is a single level of detail tile for a quick prototype, not a multi-level (multi-LoD) pyramid. Opens in CesiumJS, Cesium for Unreal/Unity.

Извезите Quantized Mesh одмах ✨ Отворена бета — бесплатно, без ограничења

Кључне могућности

✓Binary Quantized Mesh tile: 88-byte header, uint16 vertices with delta-zigzag, indices with high-water mark, edge indices
✓Grid heights from Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (~30 m), fallback to GLO-90 (~90 m); honest sea-level flat tile where coverage is absent
✓One tile on a 65x65 grid (4225 vertices, 8192 triangles) — a single level of detail, not a multi-LoD pyramid
✓Compatible with the Cesium ecosystem: CesiumJS, Cesium for Unreal, Cesium for Unity
Example Quantized Mesh export (central Moscow, 1x0.5 km)
Example: central Moscow, ~1×0.5 km, medium detail

О формату Quantized Mesh

Quantized Mesh is a binary terrain tile format invented for CesiumJS: a triangle mesh whose vertex coordinates are compressed to 16 bits within the tile, plus lists of edge vertices for seamless stitching with neighbours. The quantized-mesh-1.0 specification is open, but in practice the format lives inside the Cesium ecosystem.

The export exists to get the terrain of your area quickly for a 3D scene: look at the shape of the landscape, put terrain under a model in Cesium for Unreal or Unity, test an idea before rolling out a full tiling pipeline.

What you get: one .terrain tile for the chosen area — a regular grid of 65x65 samples, that is 4225 vertices and 8192 triangles, with an 88-byte header and edge indices per the specification. Elevations are taken from the global Copernicus DEM terrain model (GLO-30, about 30 meters per sample); where there is no coverage — ocean, polar latitudes — the cells are honestly filled with sea level and the tile becomes flat.

This is a tile of a single level of detail, not a worldwide tile pyramid. If you need working multi-level terrain over a large territory, build it in Cesium ion or cesium-terrain-builder on your own elevation source.

Који програм отвара Quantized Mesh датотеке

Следећи програми и апликације могу да отворе, уреде и раде са Cesium Quantized Mesh (.terrain) (.terrain) датотекама извезеним из OSM2CDR:

💻CesiumJS 💻Cesium for Unreal 🎮Cesium for Unity 💻Cesium ion 💻cesium-terrain-builder

Format specifications

Ко користи Quantized Mesh карте

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Quickly prototyping a terrain tile for a CesiumJS project: validate the concept in Sandcastle before a production pipeline
Test an idea in a single export: the tile drops into Sandcastle and immediately shows the shape of the landscape.
💻
Getting a base relief tile of an area with real corner heights from Copernicus DEM for a 3D scene
Real terrain of a district for a 3D scene without building your own elevation processing pipeline.
📊
A starter for Cesium for Unreal/Unity where Quantized Mesh is the native terrain source
A ready base for projects on Cesium for Unreal and Cesium for Unity, where this format is the regular terrain source.

Како извести Quantized Mesh

1
Изаберите област
Нацртајте правоугаоник или полигон на интерактивној карти на osm2cdr.ru
2
Одаберите Quantized Mesh
Изаберите Cesium Quantized Mesh (.terrain) са листе од 127 доступних формата извоза
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Извоз
Кликните на Извоз и добићете своју .terrain датотеку за 1–5 минута
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Преузимање
Преузмите готову Quantized Mesh датотеку и отворите је у CesiumJS

Како отворити након извоза

Популарне карте у формату Quantized Mesh

Бесплатно

Преузмите извозе карата у формату Cesium Quantized Mesh (.terrain)

Преузмите професионалне Quantized Mesh карте из OpenStreetMap. Тренутачно генерисање, било која област.

Бесплатно / извоз
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Често постављана питања

Is this a full multi-LoD pyramid of terrain tiles? ▼
Where do the elevations come from? ▼
Can it be used outside Cesium? ▼
How detailed is the terrain? ▼
Are buildings and roads in the tile? ▼

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