topic Attribute Colors Are Lost When I Export to FBX in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions

Attribute Colors Are Lost When I Export to FBX

Stephanie_Dockstader — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:55:29 GMT

Hi there-

I am colorizing my roads by linking to my shapefile attribute (ex. highway, street, etc.). When I export the models to FBX, the colors are lost. Is there a setting I can change to maintain these features? I have other model textures that are showing up no problem.

Thanks,

--Stephanie

Re: Attribute Colors Are Lost When I Export to FBX

MatthiasBuehler — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:38:58 GMT

Hi Stephanie,

I'm not completely sure if I understand right. Are you using textures and color at the same time?

Where do you see that the info is lost? In a specific application?

Let me know ..

matt

Matthias Buehler

Head of 3D Technologies

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Re: Attribute Colors Are Lost When I Export to FBX

Stephanie_Dockstader — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:59:52 GMT

I have buildings and roads that are generated from two separate shapefiles in CE. I am exporting them as one FBX model for use in Unity3d. I use CE rules for texturing of building facades, and they look fine in Unity. However, the colors I apply to the road layers using cga are lost..they just appear black in Unity. I would like to see the road network colored by a shapefile attribute, in this case streets are yellow, highways are blue, railways are green.

I am using a very simple cga case statement that says if the attribute in the shapefile is a street, color it red...if its a highway color it blue... ex. color (255,0,0). It looks fine in CE, but the colors don't seem to make it into the FBX model when I export from CE.

Thanks!

--Stephanie