

“CityEngine has clearly become the standard for designing high-quality, large-scale 3D cities in feature films. It is now possible to batch generate tens of thousands of building geometries at the highest level of detail and visualize them in a renderer without needing a complicated production pipeline.

The Alembic format is used by visual effects and animation professionals and is well-suited to handling massive 3D models. Scene layers can be hosted in the cloud and viewed using ArcGIS Scene Viewer, a browser-based application for viewing 3D content at any scale and with unlimited extent.”Īnother highly requested feature that’s included with CityEngine 2016 is the Alembic exporter. We have also introduced support for Esri’s new 3D streaming services with scene layer packages. “We created a simple way to import real-world elevation data and basemaps from ArcGIS Online. “This release integrates CityEngine with Esri’s powerful ArcGIS platform,” said Pascal Mueller, director of the Esri R&D Center, Zurich. What was once a very complicated and time-intensive process now can be done quickly and simply. With just a few clicks, the new Get Map Data interface will import satellite imagery, 3D terrain, and street data from any city in the world. This revolutionary modeling technology allows GIS professionals, 3D artists, architects, and urban planners to create smart 3D city models in a matter of minutes. Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) solutions, announced the release of Esri CityEngine 2016.
