#Create lot shapes cityengine 2014 full
I will include the full rule file in the last post of the starter project, but for now I'll go through it in sections in more detail. I would advise that you make yourself familiar with theīasics of Rule-Based Modelling section of the Help (within CityEngine - if you have the software) if you are still are notĪware what the Scope, Geometry and Pivot attributes are and how operations are Options tab, browse to the export script exportInstances.py and run the exporter by clicking Finish. > CityEngine > Export Models of selected Shapes and choose Script Based Exporter (Python). The starter project was a fun way to practise what I had learned and to try a few things to really get to grips with the software. Start the script based exporter: File > Export. These are fun but without coding my own rules I could never make CityEngine do what I wanted it to do. However, the syntax is unique but thankfully pretty simple to understand.īy now I had seen and played with a number of rule files that were within the tutorials and sales material from Esri.
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I hope to show you some of the work I have done with CityEngine creating a variety of models across a range of projects.
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Yes, its a programming language so it has the same type of logic and structure as Python etc. CityEngine is a great tool that is able to create large scale models, mainly of cityscapes, quickly, and with the ability to make adjustments based on a rule file in a procedural manner. I have been asked numerous times is it like such and such code. A CGA rule file is the code needed to string a list of operations together to create 3D content. At the very core of CityEngine is the shape grammar operations that take input 2D geometry and create 3D models.