CityEngine
Create stunning city models in less time with CityEngine, the tool of choice for 3D modelling of urban environments, architecture, simulation, game development and film production.
CityEngine provides artists with a rich toolset designed to speed up the creative design and production work of 3D urban visualisation, enabling impressive 3D modelling in less time. It delivers a full suite of industry-leading procedural tools to aggregate geospatial data, layout and edit street networks, subdivide parcels, generate and modify buildings, distribute props along streets, control the shape of the skyline, analyse urban design projects and many more.
Features
- Dynamic City Layouts - CityEngine comes with a comprehensive toolset for the quick creation of dynamic city layouts.
- GIS Data Import - Rapidly build accurate and visually compelling city models by aggregating and enhancing GIS data.
- Procedural Modelling Core - Procedural modelling based on CGA rules offers unlimited possibilities to control mass, geometry assets, proportions, or texturing of buildings and streets on a city-wide scale.
- Node-Based Rule Editor - CGA rules are created and modified in the Rule Editor. The node-based visual interface allows you to intuitively create procedural buildings by manipulating rules graphically.
- Facade Wizard - Quickly creates rules out of an image or a textured mass model with a simple and easy-to-use visual facade authoring tool.
- Industry-Standard 3D Formats - CityEngine supports Collada, Autodesk, FBX, Wavefront OBJ, 3DS, RenderMan, RIB or mental ray. MI format, allow for flawless 3D data exchange.
- Python - Streamline repetitive or pipeline-specific tasks with the integrated Python scripting interface.
- Reporting (BIM for Cities) - Customised rule-based reports can be generated to analyse urban design.
- Training Materials - Several learning videos and tutorials are available to take you through the basics and key concepts of CityEngine.
- Available for all Platforms - CityEngine is available for Windows (32/64bit), Mac OSX (64bit), and Linux (32/64bit)
Benefits
- The CityEngine provides interoperability with all industry-standard software allowing a flawless integration into your production pipeline. Check out the showcase gallery for a peak at its capability, or download a free 30-day trial and see it in action for yourself.
- The procedural technology at the core of CityEngine software accelerates and streamlines urban modelling processes, eliminating the extremely time-consuming task of manual design and modelling of city models, buildings and streets.
- With a full suite if innovative industry-leading procedural tools, artists can aggregate geospatial data, layout and edit street networks, subdivide parcels, generate and modify buildings, distribute props along streets, control the shape of the skyline, and analyse urban design projects.
You can choose from the Indie, Studio or Pro version, depending on your requirements. For features of each see the Comparison Matrix on the right.
What's New
The 2010.3 version offers new features for conceptual design of urban environments and introduces new tools for rule-based 2D-to-3D-conversion of GIS data. It includes:
- Direct 3D export to e-on software's Vue (the leading solution for Digital Nature).
- Groundbreaking new procedural operations for massing and urban planning (setback, L/O/U-shapes, scatter, cardinal direction selectors, etc).
- Terrain alignment functionalities and terrain export as mesh.
- Improved OpenStreetMap import with street width control and building footprint support.
- A new detailed medieval town example is available for download.
Images©CityEngine/Procedural
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