topic Re: Crop image not working in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions

Crop image not working

ScottAulen2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:22:35 GMT

I'm having inconsistent results with the crop image tool. When it's accessible it works fine but it only seems available some of the time (greyed out the rest of the time). I've also never been able to crop the image from the File Navigator context menu though help document says this should be possible.

Are these bugs? Anyone else have the same issue?

Re: Crop image not working

Anonymous User — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:56:51 GMT

It is a known bug. Until it is fixed, you might try GIMP: GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Re: Crop image not working

Renato_Cesar_Ferreira_deSouza — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 06:03:43 GMT

Hello there. Thank you for posting this topic. As a matter of fact, not working crop image means necessarily that the core of texturing process is not working at all. Indeed, It is very dissapointing that it happens with a software that intend to be a GIS visualization tool.

Re: Crop image not working

Anonymous User — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:08:52 GMT

Thank you Renato. We appreciate the feedback, but aside from the crop image tool, the texturing in CityEngine is working fine. I use it daily. I will look into the status of that tool and post an update. We don't want you to be disappointed.

Re: Crop image not working

AlexRocco — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 23:04:04 GMT

The initial post says that his is sometimes grayed out. Mine is never grayed out yet never works. While awaiting the bug fix is there any resource that describes the files it should work on?

Thanks

Re: Crop image not working

Anonymous User — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 23:27:00 GMT

Common graphics formats like jpg or png. Check the city engine help file for more types.

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Re: Crop image not working

Renato_Cesar_Ferreira_deSouza — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:15:39 GMT

Hello Chris, and thank you. My crop function is unstable, and I am trying to prove that is possible to put a Brazilian slung inside City Engine. Trying to study invisible modulations that are only visible after processing some alg. for CGA. http://arcg.is/1M1YXrB

Re: Crop image not working

Renato_Cesar_Ferreira_deSouza — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:19:23 GMT

Go to directory IMAGES and find the images. So far, the best fixing I got was with adobe photo. Try to not open any software after booting, and maybe crop works. There is something blocking it... (maybe the cursed flash?)

Re: Crop image not working

Anonymous User — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 22:06:12 GMT

We found a workaround to make the crop tool work. When you open CE, just click on an image file in the File Navigator in CE, and THEN click the Shapes menu. To rephrase: don't touch the Shapes menu until after you click on an image in the Navigator, such as "YourFacade.jpg". The crop tool should be enabled and should stay enabled until CE is shutdown. The way to not have it work is to open the Shapes menu before clicking on an image. As previously stated, this is a bug, but hopefully this will work for now. I say hopefully, because we need you to test this workaround. If you find exceptions to this, or if this just doesn't work for you, please reply. I didn't test on versions before 2015.0.

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Chris

Re: Crop image not working

Kirsi-MariaViljanen — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:08:02 GMT

Hello. I have also problem to open crop image tool. The workflow you mentioned don`t work for me at all. This is very sad. Can you help me?

Kirsi

Re: Crop image not working

AlexisNoakes — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:31:52 GMT

The workaround isn't doing it for me either (CE 2015.1) Hope it'll be resolved soon

Re: Crop image not working

ThomasHarner2 — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 16:26:12 GMT

This does NOT work on CE 2015.1. I am at a total loss for how an issue like this can go unaddressed for more than three months. I give Chris a lot of credit for being kind enough to show us a potential workaround, but it just does not work for a particular group of people and it's incredibly discouraging to newcomers to CityEngine. Please let us know when a fix is made.

Re: Crop image not working

KennethLindhardt — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:40:37 GMT

Hi,

Like others I also have this issue, still ongoing on 2015,2. Here is the workaround I’m using. For some reason all of the images from the CityEngine examples works, (the ones I’ve tested). So by copying (not mandatory) one of those ex. /Example_Paris__2014_0/assets/FacadePool/145_1.jpg to my project asset folder, start the Crop Image tool on “145_1.jpg” and afterword’s change the source Image to the one you would like to crop. Then you should be good to go.

Tested V. 2015.2

Re: Crop image not working

ThomasFuchs — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:24:46 GMT

Hi Kenneth Lindhardt,

Thank you for your report.

For CityEngine 2015.2 the original issue of this thread has been fixed.

So I couldn't reproduce what you described. Here is what I did:

create a new project (Menu > File > New... > CityEngine project)
add a image file to the assets folder (via drag and drop)
select the image file in the navigator
then open the crop tool (right click > Crop image... or Menu >Shapes > Crop image...)

Re: Crop image not working

KennethLindhardt — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:25:58 GMT

Thanks’ Thomas.

I did remember the release note for 2015.2, and it has have not been an issue before. So this seems to be regarding that one picture, all other pictures works fine. At first I thought it was the image aspect ratio, but that was’ not the case.

There’s nothing to that picture, that stands out from other pictures, not in size or pixels. It’s actually just a snip from my screen.

Glad it has been resolved for 2015.2, and sorry for bringing this up ,but if any others are experiencing the same, now they now a workaround

I can’t reproduce on any other pictures, so it must be an odd behavior with that one picture. I’m not even able to reproduce with another snip.

Re: Crop image not working

AlexisNoakes — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 07:56:43 GMT

The crop tool is finally working for me in 2015.2. Not sure if this will help but I've found the crop tool is case sencitive regarding the .jpg ending. I have a program that saves images with ".JPG" which the crop tool won't open, just rename with lowercase letters.

Best of luck!

Re: Crop image not working

ThomasFuchs — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:40:21 GMT

Thank you Alexis for the reproduction case.

Today I filed a bug report.

The workaround would be to use lowercase image file endings (e.g. *.jpg instead of *.JPG)