Latest Contributions by ThomasFuchs

Hello Mohsen Nazemi, This is a quite common question. It is not possible to directly read out the rule-defined attributes. Please also refer the following GeoNet thread: Is it possible to read rule-defined attributes with Python? However there are indirect methods, like exporting a report to get the values. Tutorial 12: Scripted report export—CityEngine Tutorials | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

Hello Reit Sined, Thank you for your report. There have been no changes in that section of the Inspector. So you were looking in the right place. For some reason the last part with the layer attributes is missing on your screenshot. Please try to re-open the scene and check again. ... View more

Hello Dmytro Zhyltsov, if the "height" attribute is not present in the open street map data, it is a common practice to set it to a default value greater than zero in CGA. That way, the building gets extruded in any case. ... View more

Hello Jugal, Thank you for you question. CityEngine Web Scenes do not support layer coloring. This is a feature of The Scene Editor to visualize which shapes in the viewport belong to which layer. Looking at the example you provided, I guess you want to color your CGA models by layer. To achieve this, you can set a layer attribute "layerColor" for each layer, then make your CGA rules use this value for the color Operation attr layerColor = "#c0c0c0" Colorize -->     color(layerColor)     ... View more

Hello Thomas, Thank you for the error report. I am unaware of the issue. Can you please provide more detail? Have you been able to install other versions of CityEngine or other Esri products? Thanks for the help. ... View more

Hello L R, there is no public known issues list for CityEngine. However this forum can be used to report issues, share workarounds and updates for bug fixes. It is regularly synced with the development backlog of the software. ... View more

Hello Pedro, Thank you for your question. There is a naming discrepancy for CityEngine web scenes (3ws). What is displayed in the information tab is actually what was entered in the description field. ... View more

Hello L R as the CE help on The Inspector states: City Engine has the following types of object attributes: BOOL  : boolean FLOAT : floating point value (double precision) STR  : character string (UTF-16 encoded) BOOL[ ]  : array of boolean values FLOAT[ ] : array of floating point values STR[ ]  : array of character string The attribute type DATE is unknown to CityEngine and will be converted to STR. I made a quick test with a GDB in ArcGIS Pro and imported it to CityEngine 2016.0 It also showed correctly in python. On export to GDB the dates will be mapped to their original type and show up as DATE in ArcGIS Pro again. Please also refer the CE-Help on Esri FileGeodatabase (FileGDB) Export : Export object attributes: Exports all object attributes as feature class fields. Information about data types and domains will be re-used, if available from an earlier FileGDB import. Array values will be ignored if the next option "Export dataset relationships" is not selected and the attribute is not part of an actual relationship. In short: When working with GDB data types like DATE that are not natively supported in CityEngine, you have to: define the GDB attribute in ArcGIS Pro first. do a GDB import in CityEngine change the attribute according to the formatting convention on GDB export from CityEngine the attribute value will be mapped back to its original type ... View more

Hello Andreas, Thanks for your response. Glad to hear you already found a workaround. Generally, the error occurs when the workspace path to the asset file is wrong. In your case the path looks OK to me. Can you preview the asset '/Example_Pompeii__2014_0/data/Bridge fixed.obj' in the Navigator? Have you tried both drag and drop and "RMB/Import..."? Please check the assets workspace path in the inspector. I hope this helps you find a better solution. ... View more

Hello Andreas, Thank you for your report. To investigate the issue, please provide more information about the file type. Is there any other information besides "Geometry asset not found" in the error log? Does it also happen with files created with CityEngine? Which version of CityEngine are you using? Thanks ... View more

Hello all I just recieved confirmation that the CityEngine Trial download issue was fixed yesterday and the downloads now seem to be working for me. If it still doesn't work, it is recommend to clear the cache from your machine and retry. In case you still see this issue, please send a screen shot and steps to reproduce this error. Please excuse this delay and try out the new version of CityEngine: What's new in CityEngine 2016—Esri CityEngine | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

Hello Alex, Thank you for the update. I hope the issue will get fixed today. For any updates on the issue refer the following GeoNet thread: I Can't download CityEngine free trial ... View more