ArcGIS Services

All Tobe Builder projects use ArcGIS basemaps and elevation services to give context to all objects within the scene. By default the Esri global basemaps are available for the entire planet. The GIS Menu can be used to either append additional project specific GIS information over the generic basemaps, or in the case of special projections, replace the Esri basemaps entirely with a project specific base map and elevation service in any coordinate reference system (CRS) supported by ArcGIS Server & ArcGIS Online.

GIS Services can be added from both internal (ArcGIS Portal) and external (ArcGIS Online). Tobe Builder also supports both public and secured services as well.

Section 1 GIS Data

Base Map

Base Map Type: Select the type of basemap from Esri global basemaps: Types include:

Imagery, streets, topographic and imagery + POI includes place and street labels.

GIS Global Opacity: Global menu to set the opacity for the GIS basemap and all feature layers.

Map Opacity: Allows the user to hide the basemap while leaving scene services unaffected.

Quality: User to reduce the GIS texture and detail quality on streaming scene layers. Helpful for reducing quality on underpowered PC hardware.

Toggle Buildings: Turn on and off the Open Street Map (OSM) 3D building layer

Toggle Elevation: The elevation service can be turned off via this toggle to flatten the map down to 0m elevation.

Toogle Texture Normals: This allows users to disable texture normals to remove artifacts caused by poor quality elevation data.

Layers

Add Local Layer: Allows users to add various ArcGIS services and data types from local source files (SLPK, TLPK ect)

Add Cloud Layer: Allows users to add various ArcGIS services and data types public and secure GIS services.

GIS Layer Menu

Sometimes it is desired to use a custom GIS layer as the base layer. This occurs when the project is in a non-standard projection, that is, not WGS 84. Discuss the GIS setup with your BU GIS lead.

To add a custom GIS projection for the base layer, for example in GDA 2020, refer to the Project Settings menu.

Note that additional GIS layers must be in the same projection as the baselayer. By default, the base layer is in WGS84.

1. GIS Transparency

Opacity sliders exist for:

Global
Base Layer
Each local

2. Quality

This controls the pixel quality displayed in the Tobe Builder Project.

3. Basemap Settings

Select a Basemap by clicking on the dropdown menu at the top of the GIS Layer Menu. Select between 24 different Basemap options:

Imagery
Streets
Topographic
National Geographic
Oceans
Light Gray Canvas
Dark Gray Canvas
Imagery + POI
Navigation
Streets
Outdoors
OpenStreetMap
Charter Territory Map
Community Map
Navigation Dark
Newspaper
Mid Century Map
Nova Map
Colour Pencil Map
Firefly Imagery Hybrid
Blueprint
Enhanced Contrast
Navigation Places
Navigation Places Dark

To toggle the elevation of the Basemap, click on the Mountain icon at the top of the Menu.

Note these are all in WGS 84 projection. Australia has moved around 2.8m since that was created as the foundation of GPS systems.

GIS Basemap Settings

4. Adding GIS Layers

There are two ways to add GIS Layers to a project.

1 - Adding a Local Layer from a File Add a GIS file by clicking on the "Disk" icon on the Layer Menu. Once file explorer opens, Select the specific file that is needed to be added in the project After the file is selected it will be loaded into the viewport. Supported file types: scene layer package - .slpk tile package - .tpk / .tpkx
2 - Adding a Cloud Layer from a URL Add a link to ArcGIS online resources by clicking on the "Download from Cloud" icon. Then enter a layer name and the layer URL along with either the layer is Secure or not before clicking "Add". The layer will then be loaded into the scene.