Latest Contributions by JackCurran

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get my head around how I can control the initial orientation of some pre-made house models when generating from shapes imported from a fGDB. Below you can one house model generated on multiple footprints. These footprints have identical dimensions but different orientations. The one circled in green shows the correct model appearance, the ones in green (which have the footprints at a different orientation) show the same model, but in the same orientation as the green model, which is then skewed to fit the footprint at a different orientation. I am currently doing nothing clever in the above - I am simply importing a model based on the start rule of the footprint. One option I have is to create two versions of this house model in two orientations, and call the correct orientation by checking the width and depth of the building footprint. However, I will be working with hundreds of house models in this project, and I don't want to have to duplicate that library unnecessarily! The other option is to manually set the first edge of each footprint which, in-turn, forces the model to be inserted in the correct orientation. However, I will be working with hundreds of footprints, so this manual process is not ideal. Additionally, if I want to edit any of my attributes in the fGDB, I would have to repeat this manual process when re-importing the shapes - definitely not ideal! So my question is - is there a CGA master out there who can suggest some wizardry to get around this issue? Many thanks in advance, Jack ... View more

Hi,   I've been working with the Local Government 3D Basemap in ArcPro and have used it create a gdb which I have subsequently imported into CityEngine. I have created LOD3 buildings, and the textures display fine in CityEngine. However, when I export it to FBX and import it into 3ds Max, the textures are distorted and/or repeated a large amount. I assume this is because per-texture transformations aren't being carried across, which is frustrating as the documentation suggests this does work for Maya (but 3ds Max is mysteriously not mentioned).   Does anyone know a way around this issue? I have tried exporting the FBX with various options to no avail, and I can't seem to access the per-texture transformations in CityEngine as they appear to be controlled by the Local Government 3D Basemap rule package.   I have included before and after images below to demonstrate the issue I'm facing. Any help would be most appreciated!   Thanks, Jack     (note that the texture is showing in the above image - it just looks grey because the texture is repeated massively so appears tiny!) ... View more