Latest Contributions by AnteroKeskinen

Hi, I'm quite newbie users of CE and I'm trying to create the first 3D building model by using our own sample data. My problem is that I cannot visualize correctly the building data which has both flat and pitched (gable) roof buildings in CE. All building data is in one Multipatch shapefile which has several attributes describing e.g. terrain height, highest quota of buildings and building height itself. One field (HCL) describes eave heights in case of gable roofs. Pleas see attachments 1 and 2. The highlighted buildings are also shown in the attachments 3-6 (in the left). I visualized the buildings in 3D e.g. in ArcGlobe (attachment 3) where you can see some gable roofs. When I import the data to CE, I can still see gable roofs in when I use the tumble/Rotate tool (attachments 4-5). However, when I create a simple CGA rule to extrude building heights based on H2 field, the result is shown in attachment 6. attr. H2 = 0 lOT--> extrude (H2) My question is, how to extrude the buildings to show their gable roofs and avoid situation shown in the attachment 6? How to create a rule to show the buildings based on their necessary attribute information from the shapefile? Thanks for any help you can provide! -antero- ... View more

Hi Forum users! I have recently started using CE but haven't got that far yet due to a number of problems in data importing. First I had problems in importing a DEM & texture (satellite image) but finally managed to import them after reading through some forum topics and finding answers e.g. in http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/54072-textures-raster-files-concepts-in-CityEngine-ArcGIS to use only 8-bit images and resample the satellite image to lower resolution. However, I cannot import my shp-files to the same scene where I have my DEM and texture. I tried to import them to different scene and did not have any problems; that indicates that the raster and vector data would have different projections. But they do NOT have; I even tried to create a new, empty shapefile by importing the projection settings from the DEM and then creating few polygon features to the shapefile (in ArcMap) but still couldn't open it to the scene having the raster data. Every time CE gives me a message: :import failed, the data is located too far from the current scene etc.....". And since my study area originally covers much larger area, I actually clipped all data by a polygon; that is to say that all data should have exactly the same extent. So, the main question is how to import the vectors to the same scene with the raster data? thanks for your help! -ant- ... View more