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For now I'm using cesium-terrain-builder for producing terrain tiles in .terrain format, but I wonder can Cesium work with float .tif tiles?

I can't see any information about this in documentation

mrgloom
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If you already have GeoTIFFs, check out tin-terrain, it takes a GeoTIFF and produces a .terrain file, or a collection of tiles, in the quantized-mesh format of triagulated integrated networks (TINs).

The cesium-terrain-builder tool produces "heightmap" .terrain files, which are a rectangular grid of heights rather than TINs. Cesium will render the heightmap tiles, but certain important functions like Cesium.sampleTerrainMostDetailed seem to work only for TINs.

The authors of tin-terrain wrote a helpful blog post about the advantages of TINs: https://developer.here.com/blog/visualizing-large-scale-terrain-with-open-source-tool-tin-terrain

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