Latest Contributions by NatanMicheletti1

When exporting a scene as an image, it is possible to control the size of the output by changing the pixel density (DPI). However, this control the size of the image only, without affecting how the scene is rendered. While this is not an issue for small exports, it presents a problem for large exports because the rendering of raster datasets is not adapted accordingly. The rendering of raster images draped on the terrain seems to be controlled by the observer distance only. It would be nice to be able to enhance the quality of raster rendering (maybe similar to what was possible on ArcScene) when exporting scenes to large images, in order to preserve details. I talked with someone at ESRI but haven't found a workaround to this at the moment. Any advice is of course welcomed! Thank you in advance for the consideration. Best regards Natan ... View more

Hello, I am trying to export a scene from CityEngine 2016.1 to LumenRT using the Bentley LumenRT Connect Edition exporter. This usually works well, but this time the scene is quite large and I am running in some problems. 1. I read that it is better to convert CE terrains to OBJ and re-import them in CE and export them as models for performances reasons. However, how can I ensure the georeferencing of these OBJ files? The centering does not seem to work (I have multiple terrains because of the size of the scene). 2. Is there any other way to gain performance during the export? I read about setting proxies for trees (I have points features that are modelled as realistic trees) and re-export to the same LumenRT scene (hence splitting the issue), but these seems to be developped more for SketchUp and I couldn't use them. Thank you in advance, Best regards Natan ... View more

Hello, I am trying  to automate a workflow where I import data from different file geodatabase in CityEngine and export the generated models. For that I am writing some python scripts, exploiting the CE() functions. The geodatabases have various feature classes in them, and I would like to select which one(s) to import as one can do in the GUI but with python, e.g. with some parameter in the FGDBImportSettings. However, in the available commands I can't find the appropriate parameter to set the names of the feature classes to import. How can it be done? Thank you in advance! Best regards, Natan ... View more

Hello everyone, I am looking for a way to "dissolve" touching 3D data without losing the Z information, is that possible? My input data can either be multipatch or polygonZ. Any workaround would help, and avoiding to obtain a single feature in the output would be a great plus.  Briefly, what I have is a street network as 3D polyline, with a field indicating the width of every street. I used 3D symbology to create a strip of the right width, and used "3D layer to feature class" to obtain a multipatch. However, this operation naturally cause overlaps at road crossings, which are a) not nice, and b) causing many issues when I process my data further (e.g. flickering "fighting" polygons). I could obtain both multipatch and polygonZ, and extrude the data to ensure touching volumes, but I was not able to eliminate the overlaps. 3D intersect extract all of them, but I don't know how to proceed without losing the 3D information. I also have bridges, hence I really need something that works in 3D for close features. The desired output would looks as in Multipatch_width.jpg (where we do not see the overlaps, but they are there unfortunately). Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance, Best wishes Natan ... View more