topic From scatter to points in .gdb for visibility analysis? in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/from-scatter-to-points-in-gdb-for-visibility/m-p/570167#M7687 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>HI,</P><P>I’m struggling a little here. I’m trying to create a building with a visibility factor, and I’m reading thru the 3D city analysis document, with gave me the idea of randomly creating points, to create the visibility analysis inside ArcScene. </P><P>In the 3D city analysis doc, it describes that when exporting the model, I need to make sure that I have a feature mapping field where I could choose “One Feature Per Leaf Shape.” I don’t seem to have that function in 2014, am I right?</P><P>My idea was to create points with the scatter operation, so I didn’t need to set a visibility point inside arcscene, so I would need it to export to points as well, but as this moment I can only export it as a Multipatch, which I’m not able to use with my geoprocessing tools.</P><P>Am I on the right track, or is there an easier way to create those points, to create a visibility analysis?<IMG alt="25-08-2014 16-03-31.png" class="jive-image image-1" src="/legacyfs/online/5060_25-08-2014 16-03-31.png" style="width: 620px; height: 787px;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:04:58 GMT KennethLindhardt 2014-08-25T14:04:58Z From scatter to points in .gdb for visibility analysis? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/from-scatter-to-points-in-gdb-for-visibility/m-p/570167#M7687 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>HI,</P><P>I’m struggling a little here. I’m trying to create a building with a visibility factor, and I’m reading thru the 3D city analysis document, with gave me the idea of randomly creating points, to create the visibility analysis inside ArcScene. </P><P>In the 3D city analysis doc, it describes that when exporting the model, I need to make sure that I have a feature mapping field where I could choose “One Feature Per Leaf Shape.” I don’t seem to have that function in 2014, am I right?</P><P>My idea was to create points with the scatter operation, so I didn’t need to set a visibility point inside arcscene, so I would need it to export to points as well, but as this moment I can only export it as a Multipatch, which I’m not able to use with my geoprocessing tools.</P><P>Am I on the right track, or is there an easier way to create those points, to create a visibility analysis?<IMG alt="25-08-2014 16-03-31.png" class="jive-image image-1" src="/legacyfs/online/5060_25-08-2014 16-03-31.png" style="width: 620px; height: 787px;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:04:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/from-scatter-to-points-in-gdb-for-visibility/m-p/570167#M7687 KennethLindhardt 2014-08-25T14:04:58Z Re: From scatter to points in .gdb for visibility analysis? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/from-scatter-to-points-in-gdb-for-visibility/m-p/570168#M7688 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Kenneth,</P><P></P><P>The ability to export leave nodes was disabled in CityEngine 2014 for technical reasons. It is however enabled again in CityEngine 2014.1 due out next month. Hopefully this work for you.</P><P></P><P>Regards Gert</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:14:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/from-scatter-to-points-in-gdb-for-visibility/m-p/570168#M7688 Gert_van_Maren 2014-08-25T14:14:12Z Re: From scatter to points in .gdb for visibility analysis? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/from-scatter-to-points-in-gdb-for-visibility/m-p/570169#M7689 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you for your quick respons. Fair enough, I will just have to wait then <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span> But the workflow I’m doing, would work right?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:31:00 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/from-scatter-to-points-in-gdb-for-visibility/m-p/570169#M7689 KennethLindhardt 2014-08-26T08:31:00Z Re: From scatter to points in .gdb for visibility analysis? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/from-scatter-to-points-in-gdb-for-visibility/m-p/570170#M7690 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Kenneth.</P><P></P><P>Basically yes, but Gert's original workflow used a more regular point distribution pattern.</P><P></P><P>You are using the scatter() operation, he used split() to create even 'tiles' first, whose center points are taken for the calculations.</P><P></P><P>Ok ?</P><P></P><P>Matt</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:10:41 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/from-scatter-to-points-in-gdb-for-visibility/m-p/570170#M7690 MatthiasBuehler 2014-09-03T20:10:41Z Re: From scatter to points in .gdb for visibility analysis? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/from-scatter-to-points-in-gdb-for-visibility/m-p/570171#M7691 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank's for the update Matt </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:55:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/from-scatter-to-points-in-gdb-for-visibility/m-p/570171#M7691 KennethLindhardt 2014-09-04T17:55:14Z