Latest Contributions by ErwinVervacke

"We can certainly build a custom Mac Pro for you, however we do not currently offer an external GPU solution for MacBook systems" So their MacPro offerings (old chassis plenty of goodies) look nice but I have never before delved into Mac desktop comparisons so I might be way off here ... If I would only run CE and Max/Modo on the system, I might as well turn to Windows.  That has been about 8 yrs since I last updated myself on hardware ... still a lot of research to do.  Guess I'll just call Pascal 🙂 ... View more

CreatePro [CreatePro Page] in UK specialises in expanding MacPro's - especially the former model which holds more space. And they resell the Cubix PCI-e Xpander [Cubix Home Page ] I'll check with them. ... View more

The MacPro alternative is very expensive as well.  I would need to keep a laptop unless I mount a handle on the Mac display for easy carrying 🙂 Benefit of the MacPro: more cores, more memory,... Windows PC laptop with external GPU seems like a double compromise ... I don't mind working on a Win machine but hate to have to 'fix/tweak/clean' it regularly and I would still have the burden of an external device. Not sure at this point but I share your concern.  If something pops up, I'll let you know. ... View more

I've been searching online and some models work although not with their official drivers ... Too bad that OS X currently doesn't send the image to the internal screen of the MBP ... external screens are required. I'm considering ViDock (as I currently don't know of any other brands) http://www.villageinstruments.com/tiki-index.php?page=Products but have no clue as to which GF card to select - any suggestions to what benchmarks to look for? A Thunderbolt GPU on a Mac : How-to | Le journal du lapin Erwn ... View more

Thanks Chris!  Have had a lot of other issues to deal with but this rule works like a charm 🙂 ... View more

Hi David, I experimented a lot with settings and have some screenshots to 'showcase' the differences: 1. I generated the full scene with only the 'street modern standard' cga rule and - aside from the 'problem that I cannot add height to the sidewalks - the streets, sidewalks and blocks are visible in the scene.  (On the junctions there seems to be a texture 'confusion' and I don't get why the crosswalks are still showing.) 2. I generated the full scene with your 2015 rule and using asphalt-buffer or not, the blocks and sidewalks on the segments are gone.  The sidewalk texture is correctly linked and I also did a trial without the 'cleanupGeometry(all, 0.001)' entry in the rule but that didn't change the outcome Above is a screenshot of the block settings in the test.  I set all blocks to recursive subdivision as a check but that didn't make the models generate correctly/appear. Does this make any sense to you?  Given my time pressure I'll work with the generic CE rule for the PoC but wanted to show you more clearly what is happening. This doesn't explain the render artifacts that indicate double faces on the static blocks though ... Erwin ... View more

Hi Matthias, David, I haven't solved it yet.  Will try David's suggestions tomorrow and I will provide an update here. Thanks for any input and your time.  Highly appreciated! Erwin ... View more

The faces have been separated as in your earlier response and the menu option is greyed out now (as they are separated).  I'll split the issue into 'blocks' and 'streets'. Blocks: As far as I understand, the 'empty space' between streets is filled with a block polygon.  Earlier exports did not export the blocks even though I did not change anything to them. Recently I have set subdivision to 'none' on some of the blocks so I can manually trace the lots using an aerial.  I have converted those blocks to static, used the Polygonal Shape Creation tool to do the tracing and afterwards selected the block and separated the faces.  Seems ok I guess ... but I noticed this morning that there still exists a complete-block-polygon on that same location (maybe more than one).  The export still doesn't export the blocks, static or dynamic. This screenshot shows the rendering artifacts in CE due to double faces. My exports to fbx (before the lot tracing actions) didn't show the blocks either (FBX Review screenshot) Should I 'do something' to the blocks or run a rule to 'solidify' them? Streets: I'm using the Complete Streets 2015 rule but the roads I'm visualizing are far less complex.  Trying workarounds (mentioned by David in earlier posts - use asphalt buffer with full street width to override all other geometry) to exclude unnecessary geometry is throwing errors during export. BTW, in this screenshot, all 3 segments have 6m street width and 2 x 2m sidewalk. So why does the sidewalk only occur on the short stretch? These are just the first blurts of issues that come to mind - I'll post the others later once I have a fix on the above which seem to be the most important for now. Chris Wilkins​, Matthias Buehler​, David Wasserman​, I hope you have some clues on what went wrong (likely user errors) ... View more

Hi David, Most rural roads in Flanders, Belgium have low complication on graphics but I seem to keep on running into problems 😞 All my roads are used in both directions and would typically have 1 lane in each direction although there should not be a lane/road marking.  [We drive a lot on good faith] However I try to set the attributes, I either get one-direction streets or 'too many stuff' (screenshot) I'm not modeling to absolute reality but our model should be inspired by reality which means far less or no road markings in rural areas. How can I set the road attributes so that I do not get lane markings of any kind? [My model doesn't have the parallel parking yet] Many thanks, Erwin ... View more