Has anyone ever used Unreal Engine within CityEngine or ArcGIS Online?

Question

Hi,

I have a quick and very simply question. Has anyone every used Unreal Engine and imported the Unreal Engine scene into CityEngine/ArcGIS Pro. I am just curious because I think this would definitely enhance the overall aesthetics of the scenes if it can be done, but if it can't then I will see if there is a way or post this as an idea.

Thanks,

Robert

RPGIS · Answer

Thanks Stephen,

I wasn't sure about the whole Unreal/City Engine/ ArcPro direction, but I had a hunch that there may be a way. I have yet to try and test your idea since I haven't installed Blender or Unreal Engine but I am hoping to sometime soon. I just wanted to see if anyone has done this yet or figured out if it was possible, but it does seem to be.

Thanks again for your help Stephen,

Robert

Anonymous User · Answer

Hi Robert,

Unreal 4.19 supports a glTF importer, and I would imagine they plan to support exporting soon.  Right now, you could push from Unreal to DAE and then into Blender.  Blender 2.8 (opensource software) supports import/export of glTF and ArcGIS Pro can import glTF files.  So if your creating the aesthetics of your symbology in Unreal, I think this workflow would work.

Thanks, Steve

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RPGIS · Answer

Thanks Stefan. What I was thinking is if I could render the visuals in such a way that I could apply the textures like a symbology and bring it back into CityEngine or ArcPro. I know I can apply symbologies in such a way that the aesthetics would still be kept but I wasn't sure to what degree. So I was just wondering if this was possible or not. I figured I couldn't import from Unreal Engine directly but I thought I could import the textured layer as a symbology. I will keep researching to see if this is possible.

Thanks,

Robert