topic Re: CityEngine Scenes in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-scenes/m-p/81689#M1142 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is always the case. CityEngine <STRONG style="text-decoration: underline;">scenes (.cej files) </STRONG>do not attempt to be "forward compatible", so a scene created in 2014 will not work in 2012. The majority of applications and formats are not forward compatible - here is more info about this, in general: <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_compatibility" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_compatibility">Forward compatibility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A></P><P></P><P>However, many CGA rules will work in earlier versions - just change the version number in the CGA back to the version you are working with. If you see compiler errors, then you may be using newer elements of CGA, which are unknown to the earlier compiler. </P><P></P><P>But the main idea is that a <SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;"><STRONG>scene</STRONG> </SPAN>developed in a newer version of CityEngine will not open in earlier versions.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:42:53 GMT Anonymous User 2014-12-07T21:42:53Z CityEngine Scenes https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-scenes/m-p/81688#M1141 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN class="s1">In CityEngine 2014 I was able to easily save and reopen scenes that I had created. However, I tried opening a scene made in version 2014 and it would not work in version 2012. Has anyone come across this issue? </SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:15:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-scenes/m-p/81688#M1141 EmmaKirkpatrick1 2014-12-07T21:15:02Z Re: CityEngine Scenes https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-scenes/m-p/81689#M1142 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is always the case. CityEngine <STRONG style="text-decoration: underline;">scenes (.cej files) </STRONG>do not attempt to be "forward compatible", so a scene created in 2014 will not work in 2012. The majority of applications and formats are not forward compatible - here is more info about this, in general: <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_compatibility" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_compatibility">Forward compatibility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A></P><P></P><P>However, many CGA rules will work in earlier versions - just change the version number in the CGA back to the version you are working with. If you see compiler errors, then you may be using newer elements of CGA, which are unknown to the earlier compiler. </P><P></P><P>But the main idea is that a <SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;"><STRONG>scene</STRONG> </SPAN>developed in a newer version of CityEngine will not open in earlier versions.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:42:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-scenes/m-p/81689#M1142 Anonymous User 2014-12-07T21:42:53Z Re: CityEngine Scenes https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-scenes/m-p/81690#M1143 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for your help!</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:25:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-scenes/m-p/81690#M1143 EmmaKirkpatrick1 2014-12-07T22:25:34Z