Latest Contributions by MatthiasBuehler1

Hi, The issue in 2012 is that BOTH 'NaN' and '0' values do that. so you'll need to set the exact '0' values to e.g. '0.01' We've looked into this for the upcoming 2013 release. Ok ? Matt ... View more

Hi, this type of split is currently not possible, no. 😞 but we have open ears for new CGA operations, of course. 🙂 ... View more

Hi, We do not have attribute support for Collada files ( thus also kml files ). I'm not even sure if any application actually reads those attributes. An other way you could try - which supports attribute export - is to export 'MultiPatches' into an Esri geodatabase (.gdb). Possibly, from there, you can continue and convert that data further on to attributed Collada files, but that I don't know myself. Maybe ask [email protected] Ok ? Matt ... View more

Hi Yigal, Can you try with the newest patch ? http://support.esri.com/en/downloads/patches-servicepacks/view/productid/66/metaid/2027 Let me know .. Matt ... View more

yes, arcmap has such tools. it delivers also the 'basemaps', which are quite acceptable quality for free (whole planet !). notice the 'Constrain Proportions' option. Making the resolution bigger while maintaining the same DPI value just unnecessarily increases the file size, but not the quality of the image. the other approach is tiling many images together, that's correct. m. ... View more

hi, Theoretically not, but I've had 1 other customer had issue with loading stuff ( workspaces, projects ) from somewhere in the network. the poor girl had to create new workspaces quite often. We've done some tests for this some time ago, where it worked. but as you know, there may be any number of possible issues else, which influence such endeavors. Plus, it's almost impossible to reproduce such issues if you don't have the exact same setup. Good luck - let me know how it goes. Anyway - I'd recommend to work on one 'beastly machine' anyway, with fast harddrive and graphics card.. avoiding any network latency, especially when working with big datasets. Cheers ! matt ... View more

@ Lukasz : Maybe ask Dave for academic pricing for your university .. 😉 ... View more

Hi Ashutosh, I'd say you should export to KML then. KML is basically a collada file with georeferencing info. Very straight forward and easy. Ok ? Matt ... View more

hi, the workspace metadata could be garbled. just create a complete new workspace in CityEngine ( Switch workspace, then enter a new workspace name, that doesn's exist, in the dialog ). then move all projects from the old workspaces in this new one, then import them in the new workspace. if it works, delete all the old workspaces. ok ? ... View more

Hi Gary. You may be the fastest if you first go through all the tutorials ( esp. 1 - 6 ) and the 1 hour video here: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/64843-CityEngine-Collection-RESOURCES-FAQ-HELP Plus maybe this sticky thread tutorial, which explains exactly what you need: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/53008-GIS-Data-Mini-Tutorial-Building-Height-and-Floor-Splits Ok ? 🙂 ... View more

hi, there is no such thing as 'original shapes' in osm street data, since the street data only consists on attributed lines. CityEngine creates the shapes dynamically based on the data available. the issue is that sometimes the input is already not so good, there we cannot do anything. [ osm is free data .. ] but we've been working on the importers and cleanup tools a lot, so they should do a much better job in 2013. ok ? ... View more

Hi, possibly, the attrs are of the wrong type. E.g. the string "5" is not the same as the float 5. try casting the types, this may help. if the value is actually string in the object attrs, initialize the attr as empty string, then cast the value with float() e.g. attr stringValue = "" # connect to object attr. @Hidden attr floatValue = 0 Lot -->     set(floatValue, float(stringValue))     Continue. Though this is just a theory. let me know, ok ? matt ... View more

hi. I never ever used mnt files, I don't even know what they are for. It may be that this is an eclipse thing ( the programming environment, in which CE is developed ), but it's nothing related to actual work in CityEngine. I'd ignore them. Unless there's something useful involved ? Inspire me .. 🙂 m. ... View more

hi, ok, glad it works now. the code above was just trying to get the idea over, not the actual proper code. with some shapes that have colinear edges, try also cleanupGeometry(). possibly also alignScopeToGeometry(yUp, any, longest) let us know a bit the progress of your CGA journey.. ok ? matt ... View more

Hi, Yep, that was not very clear. The issue is that roofs - sadly - react to the actual geometry ( edge numbering ) rather than the scope orientation. So e.g. depending on if the first edge is on the short or long side of a rectangle, the default roof orientation may change. CityEngine does not have an awareness of how shapes and their topology 'align together in the world' and that the roofs should align in the same direction. So if the footprints were digitized differently, the roofs just will change. not what we can do is change the roof orientation index based on the overall scope ratio. something like this : @Hidden attr roofOrientationIndex = 0 RoofBase --> # assuming scope is yUp     case scope.sx > scope.sz :         CreateGableRoof     else:         set (roofOrientationIndex, 1) CreateGableRoof -->     roofGable(30, 1, 1, true, roofOrientationIndex)    Does that approach make sense ? Lemme know ! matt ... View more