Latest Contributions by ElliotHartley

Hi Andrew, I'm not familiar with the UK Data Loader but if it brings the OS data into a FGDB as feature classes and I presume these will be polygons with attribution then it should be very easy to import into CityEngine.  Often OS height data is supplied separately as some a table so you may have to join by toid to buildings before importing into CityEngine.   Once imported into a CityEngine scene it's relatively easy to write a rule to extrude by height.  The trick is to avoid very tall shed and garage polygons   Feel free to reach out to me, if you need more guidance, I work with OS MasterMap data a lot. Thanks Elliot ... View more

I agree with Devin Lavigne (thanks for tagging us in Devin!) #CityEngine can be tough to learn so I understand your frustration.  I'm sure I am not alone here but those of us who do work with CityEngine professionally like myself  (I do training and consultancy around CityEngine) and I guess Esri staff, often struggle to maintain a consistent presence on all these different channels.   I, for example, focus on social media like Twitter, LinkedIn and my blog GeoPlanIT, rather than geonet as I (rightly or wrongly) assume that geonet is where Esri staff should provide most response to support/questions.   Happy to answer questions when I see them but it has to managed against work commitments.  If you reach out to me with questions on CityEngine directly I will respond I just don't check Geonet that much..  Great advice from Devin, find people's specialities and tag us into questions would be more effective... ... View more

Hi Wendi! Well I always go for a gaming laptop... this year I went for a Razer Blade, they're small and powerful.  I'd always recommend CityEngine people go for something that is at least VR capable.   Having said that you can make do on smaller specifications.  This post I did may help : https://www.geoplanit.co.uk/?p=4129   Drop me a line if you need further advice or help ... View more

Hi Alicia, I replied to you LinkedIn as well but just in case...  There are a some things it could be but probably it's due to your terrain image not being clipped correctly. I've found the clipping process can leave 1 or 2 pixel width borders (mine tend to be on two edges). Elliot http://www.garsdaledesign.co.uk/ www.garsdaledesign.co.uk​ ... View more

You're welcome   As you can see from Blake's rule the concept is relatively simple, his takes a similar approach to mine, my one goes a bit further with reporting and testing of spaces as well as other things.  The difficulty with CityEngine is knowing when to stop adding customisation options...   ... View more

Hi, I have completed quite a specific multi-level car parking garage rule which has the potential for adaptation to what you require.  It really depends what you are looking for, visualisation, analysis or both? Feel free to drop me a direct message to discuss this further Warm Regards Elliot Elliot Hartley ------------------ Garsdale Design Ltd web: www.garsdaledesign.co.uk profile: uk.linkedin.com/in/elliothartley twitter: twitter.com/elliothartley ... View more

I just saw this article on the UK's National Mapping agency (Ordnance Survey) site that may interest you: our Research team have been working on a small project to see whether it’s possible to automatically extract the shape class of each roof and whether buildings that don’t fit simple height data can be identified. http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2014/12/using-machine-learning-to-build-the-future-of-3d-mapping/http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2014/12/using-machine-learning-to-build-the-future-of-3d-mapping/http:// All the best Elliot ----------------- Elliot Hartley     Director twitter: @elliothartley --------------------------------- Garsdale Design Limited elliot.hartley@garsdaledesign.co.uk www.garsdaledesign.co.uk ... View more

LumenRT is great, my advice? start with small scenes and experiment, standard render is often 'good enough'.  If you were at the UC you would have seen the upcoming release which will blow you away with it's functionality! ... View more

I've got no solution here for you sorry, but I want to say I've had the same problem.  I'm trying to replicate it.    It looks similar to an issue that happens when your model is far away from the origin.  When this issue has happened to me, a close and restart fixes it, so perhaps it's a memory bug?    I don't think there is a fix for this in the new SR release but perhaps, it's worth installing that to see if it fixes this issue? ... View more

Hello! Is it possible to format the output of the Report function? For example, I have a formula (within a CGA rule) that calculates the average cost of a building based on price per square foot. The problem is that there is no currency or comma symbol to make something more easily readable like making "123145341" into "$123,145,341". This becomes particularly noticeable when exporting to a web scene for sharing with other people. Any ideas on how to make this adjustment? Even something like "123-145-341" would be an improvement. Cheers, Nathan You can't seemingly display Report result outputs as text (it's only really for numbers and calculations).   You could give each report output a heading title equal to the value but it would be very messy. I would have thought your best bet is to use python to take the raw number in the report, format it and make it an object attribute.  The resulting object attribute would then appear in the webscene if you exported it.   I suggest you explore the ce.setAttribute() function. You might start at this thread: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/91919-Report-gt-Object-Attribute Hope this helps... Elliot ... View more

yes,i know.If i don't publish the web scene to ArcGIS-Online,how to set up the section of  the comments in the scenes Without significant modification of the webscene offline viewer code you can not accept comments unless you are using ArcGIS online.   SmartBetterCities as far as I am aware have done something on this. ... View more

do you mean the Nexus 7 could display the webscene? A special blog post just for you... "Does the CityEngine WebViewer viewer work on a Nexus 7 (2012)?", basically yes but you'd be better off on a much more powerful device.   Before you do anything get it tested first. Hope this helps Elliot ... View more

SmartBetterCities have the viewer working on an iPad but I think you need it in developer mode. I know it's not an iPad but CityEngine webscene viewer does work on Android devices, (Chrome certainly).   My Nexus 7 can just about view 3D scenes!   I'd probably wait for official support or get a more powerful mobile device.. Elliot ... View more