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Identify features in a scene to select.

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Use case

You can select features to visually distinguish them with a selection color or highlighting. This can be useful to demonstrate the physical extent or associated attributes of a feature, or to initiate another action such as centering that feature in the scene view.

How to use the sample

Click a building in the scene layer to select it. Deselect buildings by clicking away from the buildings.

How it works

  1. Create an ArcGISSceneLayer passing in the URL to a scene layer service.
  2. Use sceneView.setOnMouseClicked to get the screen click location Point2D.
  3. Call sceneView.identifyLayersAsync(sceneLayer, point2D, tolerance, false, 1) to identify features in the scene.
  4. From the resulting IdentifyLayerResult, get the list of identified GeoElements with result.getElements().
  5. Get the first element in the list, checking that it is a feature, and call sceneLayer.selectFeature(feature) to select it.

About the data

The scene shows a buildings layer in Brest, France hosted on ArcGIS Online.

Relevant API

  • ArcGISSceneLayer
  • Scene
  • SceneView

Tags

3D, Berlin, buildings, identify, model, query, search, select

Sample Code

SceneLayerSelectionSample.java
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 /*  * Copyright 2018 Esri.  *  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not  * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of  * the License at  *  * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0  *  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT  * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the  * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under  * the License.  */  package com.esri.samples.scene_layer_selection;  import java.util.List; import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;  import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.geometry.Point2D; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.control.Alert; import javafx.scene.input.MouseButton; import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane; import javafx.stage.Stage;  import com.esri.arcgisruntime.ArcGISRuntimeEnvironment; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.concurrent.ListenableFuture; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.data.Feature; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.layers.ArcGISSceneLayer; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.loadable.LoadStatus; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.ArcGISScene; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.ArcGISTiledElevationSource; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.BasemapStyle; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.GeoElement; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.Surface; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.Camera; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.IdentifyLayerResult; import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.SceneView;  public class SceneLayerSelectionSample extends Application {   private SceneView sceneView;   @Override  public void start(Stage stage) {   try {   // create stack pane and JavaFX app scene  StackPane stackPane = new StackPane();  Scene fxScene = new Scene(stackPane);   // set title, size, and add JavaFX scene to stage  stage.setTitle("Scene Layer Selection Sample");  stage.setWidth(800);  stage.setHeight(700);  stage.setScene(fxScene);  stage.show();   // authentication with an API key or named user is required to access basemaps and other location services  String yourAPIKey = System.getProperty("apiKey");  ArcGISRuntimeEnvironment.setApiKey(yourAPIKey);   // create a scene with a basemap style  ArcGISScene scene = new ArcGISScene(BasemapStyle.ARCGIS_TOPOGRAPHIC);   // set the scene to the scene view  sceneView = new SceneView();  sceneView.setArcGISScene(scene);   // set the initial viewpoint  Camera camera = new Camera(48.378, -4.494, 200, 345, 65, 0);  sceneView.setViewpointCamera(camera);   // add the scene view to the stack pane  stackPane.getChildren().add(sceneView);   // add base surface with elevation data  Surface surface = new Surface();  final String elevationService = "https://elevation3d.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/WorldElevation3D/Terrain3D/ImageServer";  surface.getElevationSources().add(new ArcGISTiledElevationSource(elevationService));  scene.setBaseSurface(surface);   // add a scene layer of buildings in Brest, France  final String buildings = "http://tiles.arcgis.com/tiles/P3ePLMYs2RVChkJx/arcgis/rest/services/Buildings_Brest/SceneServer/layers/0";  ArcGISSceneLayer sceneLayer = new ArcGISSceneLayer(buildings);  scene.getOperationalLayers().add(sceneLayer);   // zoom to the layer's extent when loaded  sceneLayer.addDoneLoadingListener(() -> {  if (sceneLayer.getLoadStatus() == LoadStatus.LOADED) {   // when the scene is clicked, identify the clicked feature and select it  sceneView.setOnMouseClicked(e -> {  if (e.isStillSincePress() && e.getButton() == MouseButton.PRIMARY) {  // clear any previous selection  sceneLayer.clearSelection();  // identify clicked feature  Point2D point2D = new Point2D(e.getX(), e.getY());  ListenableFuture<IdentifyLayerResult> identify = sceneView.identifyLayerAsync(sceneLayer, point2D, 10, false, 1);  identify.addDoneListener(() -> {  try {  // get the identified result and check that it is a feature  IdentifyLayerResult result = identify.get();  List<GeoElement> geoElements = result.getElements();  if (geoElements.size() > 0) {  GeoElement geoElement = geoElements.get(0);  if (geoElement instanceof Feature) {  // select the feature  sceneLayer.selectFeature((Feature) geoElement);  }  }  } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException ex) {  new Alert(Alert.AlertType.ERROR, "Error identifying features").show();  }  });  }  });  } else {  new Alert(Alert.AlertType.ERROR, "Error loading scene layer").show();  }  });   } catch (Exception e) {  // on any error, display the stack trace.  e.printStackTrace();  }  }   /**  * Stops and releases all resources used in application.  */  @Override  public void stop() {   if (sceneView != null) {  sceneView.dispose();  }  }   /**  * Opens and runs application.  *  * @param args arguments passed to this application  */  public static void main(String[] args) {   Application.launch(args);  }  }

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