CesiumGS / CesiumGS/cesium

Cesium Inspector doesn't work without globe

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Description

This may be expected behavior, and if so feel free to close. I just encountered it while testing for release and wanted to document it.

If you load this Sandcastle and quickly hit "show frustum planes" you'll get the following error:

https://sandcastle.cesium.com/index.html?src=Cesium%20Inspector.html&label=All

```
DeveloperError: normalized result is not a number
Error
at new DeveloperError (https://sandcastle.cesium.com/CesiumUnminified/Cesium.js:82:23)
at Function.Cartesian3.normalize (https://sandcastle.cesium.com/CesiumUnminified/Cesium.js:1954:23)
at https://sandcastle.cesium.com/CesiumUnminified/Cesium.js:41888:35
at computeTriangleAttributes (https://sandcastle.cesium.com/CesiumUnminified/Cesium.js:41921:17)
at splitLongitudeTriangles (https://sandcastle.cesium.com/CesiumUnminified/Cesium.js:42093:25)
at Object.GeometryPipeline.splitLongitude (https://sandcastle.cesium.com/CesiumUnminified/Cesium.js:42563:21)
at geometryPipeline (https://sandcastle.cesium.com/CesiumUnminified/Cesium.js:97951:42)
at Object.PrimitivePipeline.combineGeometry (https://sandcastle.cesium.com/CesiumUnminified/Cesium.js:98097:30)
at loadSynchronous (https://sandcastle.cesium.com/CesiumUnminified/Cesium.js:99887:44)
at Primitive.update (https://sandcastle.cesium.com/CesiumUnminified/Cesium.js:100514:21)
```

It looks as though this error is only thrown if this option is turned on before the globe loads.

It looks like you can't turn on the Cesium Inspector if you disable the globe in the Viewer constructor. It will throw the following error if you try to do this:

```
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'depthTestAgainstTerrain' of undefined (on line 252774 of https://sandcastle.cesium.com/CesiumUnminified/Cesium.js)
```

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Research direction

Reproduce the failure from the Cesium Inspector Sandcastle link by enabling “show frustum planes” before the globe loads and by disabling the globe in the Viewer constructor. Start with the reported Cartesian3.normalize, GeometryPipeline.splitLongitude, and Cesium Inspector stack entries. Done means the Inspector can be enabled in both cases without either reported error.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend, tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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