Latest Contributions by larryzhang1

Thx, Matt, After applied with terrain onto the scene, the junction with piers can be created, as you posted. It looks that DEM/terrain must be applied in 3D scene for creation of complex junction. Correct? If so, how to create junction or one street that goes through the underground? Regards, ... View more

Matt, On street network, how to properly control/configure two roads with bridge (piers)? The scenario is: At Junction, two roads connector is the bridge (over piers). See the snapshots I have below. [ATTACH=CONFIG]25721[/ATTACH] and [ATTACH=CONFIG]25722[/ATTACH] What I want is firstly to control one road under another (second snapshot above). Secondly, is there a way to do that with piers (first one above) ? The terrain is not applied in the scene. Is it the reason to cause not functional? Anything else missing? ++++++ Just checked the example (Philadelphia), which looks that it works. ... View more

... there seems to be a bug. ... See here : http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/59442-FBX-export-%28models%29-to-3DSMAX Use kml instead, ok ? ... Thx for prompt assitance, Matt, On exporting to KML in CE, it looks working, if the size of models is small. However, the KML approach is not practical, in particular, when dealling with thousands of models in one file (in fact, when models are very large, it is also not effective for COLLADA. It is why we need CE directly working with FGDB in operation... Regards, ... View more

.... From my knowledge, that is a current limitation of MultiPatches which are stored in a geodatabase or by the tool processes them. In general what I recommend in this case is never export ArcGIS symbologies to CityEngine because they're not recognized as such symbols anyway. Just export the point markers and create the trees or other point features with rules.... Matt, You may reach points on FGDB limitations�?� However, not sure if you realized that exporting the tree models from CE to multipatch GDB also is not functional? That is, tree models directly exported from CE are not well presented/rotated in ArcScene or ArcGlobe... Most likely, CE has bugs on the 'direct' export to GDB, if dealing with tree model�?� So, can you report this incident to 3D/CE team for further investigation and then fix as sooner as possible? Of course, please ignore, if no channel or responsibility to do so. Regards, +++++++ Note, We can interoperate between CE and FGDB through COLLADA, when dealing with 3D models like tree or street furniture�?� ... View more

Hi Larry, Can you also post a screenshot how that looks in ArcScene before export ? It seems to me that ArcScene - when exporting - swaps the 'nice' models with simple 'billboard' trees. Let me know.. Matt Matt, Pls see the snapshots of trees & houses below, which are derived with 'symbols' from point feature class in ArcScene. [ATTACH=CONFIG]25640[/ATTACH] and [ATTACH=CONFIG]25641[/ATTACH] ... View more

mat, Let�??s make 20~30 trees with the field �??Height�?? (from 5 to 15 m) as an example, in a point feature class; and then, In ArcScene: Step 1: load /configure the point feature class in ArcScene; Step 2: symbolize those points with 3D tree (saying, American Sweet Gum); Step 3: Configure the �??Advanced�?? under the Tab �??Symbology�??, which use the tree height as Size and pick Rotation Angle as Random. In this way, the 3D trees in ArcScene will be well presented and also very light (excellent performance, compared to similar approach in CE.) Step 3: export 3D trees with model into multipatch (GDB); Step 4: load into CE. (Those 3D trees should look same as in ArcScene. Unfortunately, those 3D trees model is changed, i.e., not properly rotated in CE. (See the snapshot above.) In CE: Inversely, if producing 3D trees in CE from point feature class by �??vegetation.cga�?? and then exporting into 3D trees feature class (GDB), ArcScene will change the model of those 3D trees as well, so that the 3D trees presented/rotated not properly (i.e., same as the snapshot above.) ++++++++++ It looks that it is an interoperation issue between ArcScene 10.1/10.0 and CE 2012.1, when dealing with 3D multipatch with models (tree, street furniture ...) , which is derived from �??point�?? feature classes. Not sure if it is a 'known' issue to 3D/CityEngine team�?� Regards, ... View more

Thanks for consideration and action, team, 'Incorporate Ground Control Points (GCP) during creation of Mosaic Datasets' is partially implemented in 10.2 - See more at: http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=08730000000boIp#sthash.u7ckrkSY.dpuf larry @ ARAMCO ... View more

Just for information sharing, 10.2 will provide an effective mechanism to incorporate TP & GCP during creation of Mosaic Datasets... It is also a solution to your issue. See more at: http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=08730000000boIp#sthash.k4GndsqH.dpuf Larry @ Aramco ... View more

Just for update, On clarification (�??Basemap layer�?? and �??Map services�??) from Alexey, it is clear. The ArcGIS Server layers in MXD are not supported in ArcGIS Server for republishing as map service (OK in the drawing engine used to cache the basemap layer locally within ArcMap.) Please link to http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/86487-Is-there-way-to-disable-MXD-containing-image-services-for-publishing-as-GIS-service?p=306292&viewfull=1#post306292  for details. Thanks ... View more

Larry, In 10.1, you will not be able to publish a map document containing a layer from ArcGIS Server (for instance, an image service layer). When running the Analyze tool in ArcMap, an error will be returned and the publishing process will not continue. http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00sq0000001m000000 Thanks, alexey What is the major distinction between �??Basemap layer�?? and �??Map services�??? Can you explain below from the documentation?   Basemap layer :  �?� ArcGIS Server layers  (Supported); and �?� Raster layers (Supported); Map services: �?� Raster layers (Supported); but �?� ArcGIS Server layers (Unsupported) ++++++ In fact, on our image services from MD at image server 10.1, some are cached; of course, most of image services are not cached at all, which are mainly used for dynamic image and raster analysis�?� ... View more