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import "@arcgis/map-components/components/arcgis-shadow-cast";
No specific import is needed for this component.
The Shadow Cast component displays the cumulative shadows of 3D features in a Scene. This type of analysis is helpful in urban development, where new projects have to satisfy certain shadow duration constraints.
The component calculates the cumulative shadows for a time range during a single day. The user can configure the time range and select a calendar date. This time range and calendar date are only used for the shadow analysis and are not connected to the lighting in the scene. To control the lighting in the scene, the Daylight component can be used. Changing the timezone in the component updates the visualization by interpreting the time range as being in that timezone. This behavior is different from the Daylight component, where selecting a timezone updates the environment lighting's date and time according to the camera position.
The component provides three visualization modes: threshold, duration, and discrete mode.
In the threshold mode, only the areas that receive shadows for more than a certain amount of time are displayed. In the image below, on May 1, 2021 the red areas receive shadow for more than 4 hours within the time interval of 10AM to 4PM.
Total shadow duration mode displays the duration of the cumulative shadow using opacity: areas that don't receive any shadow are fully transparent and areas that receive a maximum amount of shadow have a default opacity of 0.7. The values in between are interpolated. Hovering over the Scene will display a tooltip showing the amount of time that location is in shadow, rounded to 15-minute intervals. In this mode, the visualization can display shadow cast in a continuous way or in 1-hour intervals.
Discrete shadows is a third visualization mode which displays individual shadows at a given time interval. For example, setting the time range to 10AM-11AM and the visualization time interval to 30 minutes will display shadows for 10AM, 10:30AM and 11:00AM.
The defaults for the time range and visualization settings can be changed using the startTimeOfDay, endTimeOfDay, and visualizationType properties.
Known limitations
See also
Demo Properties autoDestroyDisabledProperty
autoDestroyDisabled: boolean
If true, the component will not be destroyed automatically when it is disconnected from the document. This is useful when you want to move the component to a different place on the page, or temporarily hide it. If this is set, make sure to call the destroy method when you are done to prevent memory leaks.
Property
date: Date | number | string
The calendar date used to calculate the shadow cast. This date excludes the time. If a date with a time is set, the time value will be set to midnight (00:00:00
) of that date in local system time. If no date is set, then it defaults to the current date in local system time.
See also
Property
The configuration used when the component's visualizationType is set to "discrete".
Property
The configuration used when the component's visualizationType is set to "duration".
Property
endTimeOfDay: number
Time (in milliseconds from midnight of the date) when the shadow cast computation should stop.
Property
headingLevel: number
Indicates the heading level to use for the titles "Time range" and "Visualization".
Property
hideColorPicker: boolean
Property
hideDatePicker: boolean
Property
hideThresholdContext: boolean
Property
hideThresholdContextColor: boolean
Property
hideThresholdContextTimeInterval: boolean
Property
hideThresholdContextToggle: boolean
Property
hideTimeRangeSlider: boolean
Property
hideTimezone: boolean
Property
hideTooltip: boolean
Property
hideVisualizationOptions: boolean
Property
icon: string
Icon which represents the component. Typically used when the component is controlled by another component (e.g. by the Expand component).
See also: Calcite Icons
Property
label: string
The component's default label.
Property
position: "bottom-leading" | "bottom-left" | "bottom-right" | "bottom-trailing" | "manual" | "top-leading" | "top-left" | "top-right" | "top-trailing"
Property
By assigning the id
attribute of the Map or Scene component to this property, you can position a child component anywhere in the DOM while still maintaining a connection to the Map or Scene.
Property
startTimeOfDay: number
Time (in milliseconds from midnight of the date) when the shadow cast computation should start.
state: "disabled" | "ready"
The component's state. The values mean the following:
disabled
- component is being createdready
- component is readyProperty
The configuration used when the component's visualizationType is set to "threshold".
Property
utcOffset: number
The difference in hours between UTC time and the times displayed in the component.
Property
visualizationType: "discrete" | "duration" | "threshold"
Type of visualization to use when showing the shadows. There are 3 types of visualization:
threshold
- only displays areas that receive shadows for a period longer than a given threshold valueduration
- displays all areas that receive shadows either in a continuous mode or in 1 hour time intervalsdiscrete
- displays individual shadows cast at a given time intervalNo slots to display.
Events arcgisPropertyChangeEvent
arcgisPropertyChange: CustomEvent<{ name: "state"; }>
Emitted when the value of a property is changed. Use this to listen to changes to properties.
bubblesEvents triggered on this element will be propagated to their outermost elements.
composedThe event is composable and will propagate across the shadow DOM into the standard DOM.
cancelableThe event's default behavior can be canceled, allowing for custom behavior to be implemented instead.
arcgisReadyEvent
arcgisReady: CustomEvent<void>
Emitted when the component associated with a map or scene view is is ready to be interacted with.
bubblesEvents triggered on this element will be propagated to their outermost elements.
composedThe event is composable and will propagate across the shadow DOM into the standard DOM.
cancelableThe event's default behavior can be canceled, allowing for custom behavior to be implemented instead.
Methods Method SignaturecomponentOnReady
componentOnReady(): Promise<void>
destroy
destroy(): Promise<void>
getDuration
getDuration(point: __esri.Point): Promise<number>
start
start(): Promise<void>
stop
stop(): Promise<void>
Method
componentOnReady(): Promise<void>
Create a promise that resolves once component is fully loaded.
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const arcgisShadowCast = document.querySelector("arcgis-shadow-cast");
document.body.append(arcgisShadowCast);
await arcgisShadowCast.componentOnReady();
console.log("arcgis-shadow-cast is ready to go!");
Method
destroy(): Promise<void>
Permanently destroy the component.
Method
getDuration(point: __esri.Point): Promise<number>
Returns the time (in milliseconds) spent in shadow for a certain point on the screen.
Parameters Parameter Type Optional?point
Point
Method
start(): Promise<void>
Starts the component. While running, it will automatically perform shadow accumulation.
Method
stop(): Promise<void>
Stops the component.
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