topic Re: Water Effect in cityengine in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions

Water Effect in cityengine

Anonymous User — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:00:41 GMT

Original User: monrath.p

Hi!

I would like to know how to do mass water seem like Rotterdam City as link below. I saw in facebook just type "_water" in the layer name. I have tried to type "_water" at the terrain layer name and export to 3ws but it's not work.

Please help me how to do it.

Thanks

E: Rotterdam with Water: http://ow.ly/jDwho

This is my project
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This is my export setting
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Re: Water Effect in cityengine

Anonymous User — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:25:01 GMT

Original User: matthiasbuehler

hi !

it's 2 underscores .. '__water'.

we may add some docs on this here on the forum. not all the docs are available yet.

Matt

Re: Water Effect in cityengine

MonrathPumkhem1 — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:47:22 GMT

Hi Matt

Ooooh Yeah!!! Thanks matt;) I got it!!

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I hope to see more special visualization and technique!! soon.

Thank you
Monrath P.

Re: Water Effect in cityengine

Anonymous User — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:44:50 GMT

Original User: crmltd-js

Hi there,

I'm interested in replicating the Rotterdam water effect as well. When and where will you be publishing the documents?

Thanks.

Re: Water Effect in cityengine

ScottFujikawa — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:21:16 GMT

Hi
The water effects can be done in this manner:

In ArcMap, create a shapefile(s) tracing the edges of the body of water you wish to animate. (be sure you set the projection exactly as the CityEngine project you're importing into)
Once you import(drag) it into your project scene, right click the shapefile layer in the scene window and then select "objects in the same layer" and then name it in the Inspector Name line "Name__water"
Be sure to use 2 underscores before "water"

Align the shapes slightly above your terrain, & export to web scene & you will see the animated water.

Scott

Re: Water Effect in cityengine

Anonymous User — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:25:53 GMT

Original User: natebrigmon

Hi all,

I'm having difficulty with this water effect as well. I've imported my shapefile with the correct projection/coordinates and used the dual underscore and am still having problems. What are some other possible solutions?

Also, why do I lose a lot of image quality on my terrain (see pic)?
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Thanks!

Re: Water Effect in cityengine

MatthiasBuehler1 — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:58:54 GMT

Hi,

check :
- terrain layers' U- and V-subdivisions
- in the export settings, in the Misc tab, check or uncheck the 'simplify terrain' option. [Simplifying the terrain usually takes a long time, but produces a lighter terrain mesh than the full grid.]
- in the 2nd window of the webScene exporter, check the texture size settings.

ok so far ?

m.

Re: Water Effect in cityengine

Anonymous User — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:25:34 GMT

Original User: natebrigmon

matthiasbuehler;311305

Hi Matthias,

I gave up on this and revisited it a few months later. It worked! Thanks for your help! I have no idea what the problem was, maybe it just needed some time?

Cheers,

Nathan

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Re: Water Effect in cityengine

MatthiasBuehler1 — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:55:41 GMT

haha. time heals all wounds .. 😮

Re: Water Effect in cityengine

fatimaezzahrajadid — Thu, 10 May 2018 10:51:43 GMT

thanks