City Engine Flyover

[LukeCzar]

Hi Matthias,

I have a question, so there is a PLAY button in WEB SCENE to see the video of flying over the buildings , it there anything like that in CITY ENGINE? without having exporting the whole project into Web Scene? I would like to record a short video presenting our Campus, but the file is to big for web scene?

[MatthiasBuehler1]

Maybe you could also play with Python scripting to create the series of bookmarks.


Matt

[Renato_Cesar_Ferreira_deSouza]

It remindes me TK8000 doing animation on wireframe. So weak recurse that worthwhile not being difused. Shame. When I just wonder about documentation, this sort of solution appears. Considering the price of the software should be better doing something better or reducing - the price.

[ThomasFuchs]

Hello Renato,

Thank you for your reply.

This threat provides a way of doing a simple flyover animation with CityEngine.

But CityEngine is not intended to be a standalone solution for animation.

I am sorry, if you got the impression this would be the case.

Instead, the development team is working closely with key customers in the VFX industry to meet their production needs.

Today CityEngine provides a wide range of 3D model export formats, and there are continuous efforts to support the latest standards. This includes support for animation software workflows like:

• Autodesk 3DS MAX and Maya: Autodesk FBX Export
• Pixar Renderman: Renderman RIB Export
• ... and others

[LR]

You can use "restoreBookmark" with Python, no need to delete bookmarks or limit the number.  It's not exactly hard to code either.

from scripting import *
ce = CE()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    vp = ce.getObjectsFrom(ce.get3DViews(), ce.isViewport)[0] #get viewport
    vp.restoreBookmark("b1", True) #navigate to bookmark titled "b1"
    ce.waitForUIIdle() #wait for animation to finish
    vp.restoreBookmark("b99", True) #navigate to bookmark titled "b99"

[CherylLau]

There is another option to use a 3D mouse to navigate smoothly in the CityEngine viewport and take a screen capture video.  But, really, Thomas's suggestion to export your scene and do the animation in another software is the recommended workflow.