Unity3D-Globe

Unity3D Implementation for Chrome Experiment WebGL Globe

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Unity3D-Globe is a complete project in which you can use to add your own data and create your globe.

Change Data Source

The default DataLoader loads a JSON file from Resources folder, the loader expect JSON in the following format:

{
  "AllData": [
    {
      "Year": "1990",
      "Data": latitude, longitude, magnitude, latitude, longitude, magnitude, ...]
    },
    {
      "Year": "2000",
      "Data": latitude, longitude, magnitude, latitude, longitude, magnitude, ...]
    }
  ]
}

You can change the structure of the JSON file or even the data source as required and implement your own DataLoader.

Visualize Your Data

To visualize your data you'll need to have a GameObject with DataVisualizer component attached to it
DataVisualizer needs a reference to the following elements:

PointMaterial: this is a material used for the points mesh, this material should be able to use the vertex color data to set the final color of the vertex, there is a material created for this purpose under the materials folder which use a custom shader written for this purpose
Colors: a gradient to be used to assign each data point a color according to its value
Earth: the earth object in the scene.
Point Prefab: a prefab to the point which will be placed for each data value

After loading the data wrap it in array of SeriesData, the SeriesData is just a class that has a name and float array, the float array represent the series data in the following order [latitude, longitude, magnitude, latitude, longitude, magnitude, ...]
Call the CreateMeshes function from your DataVisualizer and send it the series array that you have just created
To switch the shown series just call ActivateSeries function on visualizer and send it the index of the series that you need to show.

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