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Procedural Street Network Construction:
The CityEngine offers unique street grow tools to quickly design and construct urban layouts. Street patterns such as grid, organic or circular are available and the topography of the terrain is taken into account.
Import of Street Networks or Lots:
Real street networks of any city in the world can be imported from OpenStreetMap. This allows for a quick generation of existing urban surroundings. Furthermore street networks or lots designed in other programs can be imported via the DXF file format.
in CityEngine Vue: Import of georeferenced data such as KML and Esri’s GDB
Rule-based Modeling Core:
Procedural modeling based on CGA rules offers unlimited possibilities to control mass, geometry assets, proportions, or texturing of buildings or streets on a city-wide scale. You can define your own rules using your own textures/models in the node- or text-based rule editor, or in the facade wizard.
in CityEngine Vue: Introduction of styles for rule-based modeling of buildings
Parametric Modeling of 3D Buildings:
A convenient interface to control specific building parameters such as the height or age is provided. Parameter modifications invoke the automatic regeneration of the 3D model with all architectural elements correctly aligned.
Parametric Modeling of 3D Streets:
Similar to the buildings, street appearances can be controlled via a parametric interface, resulting in immediate visual feedback. For example, the profiles of streets can be quickly edited.
in CityEngine Vue: Intuitive street editing tools
Map-Controlled City Modeling: The parameters of the many buildings and streets can be controlled globally via image maps (for example the building heights or the landuse-mix). This allows for intuitive city modeling and quick changes.
And more new features in CityEngine Vue:
Automatic skeleton subdivision of blocks into lots
3D Viewport enhancements such as reflections and ambient occlusion
Esri CityEngine Vue supports only VOB (for e-on software's Vue) as 3D exchange format.
Otherwise it comes with the same features as Esri CityEngine Basic
i.e. only the feature ‘Basic 2D and 3D Format Support’ is different to Esri CityEngine Basic.