Btw I remember a company several years ago, using XSI to build a similar thing to CityEngine. It was quite decent stuff. They had a dedicated website for the product and it was heavily based on Softimage. Wasn't it launched as a standalone application based on ICE? I'm pretty sure I saw a video by that company showing the XSI GUI within the standalone application they were selling. I remember because I was wondering how they would have sold it with the XSI codebase somehow involved. Maybe the Foundation version of Soft? Probably a guy on the list was working on it or posted the link to it. Can't remember, my head hurts. :)
sven -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jordi Bares Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 8:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: City generator? Esri CityEngine is truly something else because it revolves around the architecture and urbanist language and being procedural allow for a much more sophisticated and realistic result. It is not cheap (last time I checked) but if you need to do some architecture landscape anything else is truly a toy in comparison, and the proof of time will certainly tell. Meaning, today may look like a curve duplication does the job, in 3-5 years you will want to hide. Ultimately, like Marvellous Designer, and any other specialised tool, it requires certain knowledge that is in the realm of cloth manufacturing (MD) or architecture (CE), my guess is that you want get a young clever guy with a degree in architecture to help you out, I sincerely believe the pay off will be certainly there. hope it makes sense. jb > On 29 Feb 2016, at 14:12, Morten Bartholdy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have pored over Esri's site and their reseller here in DK but no > pricing available without actually contacting them. Smells expensive > too :) > > I think I will fall back on some simpler methods with curve > duplication and scattering for this one. > > /Morten > > > >> Den 27. februar 2016 klokken 02:25 skrev Francois Lord <[email protected]>: >> >> >> CityEngine is amazing, but very expensive. We've used it several >> times in the past. I think it now has some sort of link to Houdini to >> be able to work procedurally directly in Houdini. >> >> On 2016-02-25 10:11 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: >>> Thanks Chris, but I am looking for something that allows for more >>> irregular and organic looking cityscapes. I found the tool I was >>> thinking of - unfortunately it was not ICE based: >>> >>> http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFRqSJFp-I0 >>> >>> >>> Morten >>> >>> >>> >>>> Den 25. februar 2016 klokken 15:31 skrev Chris Marshall >>>> <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> >>>> I did this really simple one:- >>>> >>>> https://vimeo.com/5200892 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 22 February 2016 at 13:00, Morten Bartholdy >>>> <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks Sven - I will check that one out :) >>>>> >>>>> MB >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Den 22. februar 2016 klokken 13:51 skrev Sven Constable >>>>>> <[email protected]>: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Theres also CityEngine. I have no clue about pricing. >>>>>> http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: [email protected] >>>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>>>>> Morten Bartholdy >>>>>> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 11:07 AM >>>>>> To: Userlist, Softimage >>>>>> Subject: City generator? >>>>>> >>>>>> I thought I once saw an ICE based City Generator system for XSI, >>>>>> but I >>>>> might >>>>>> be mistaken. I found two systems on rray.de/xsi which look a bit >>>>> rudimentary >>>>>> - I am looking for something that allow you to do road and >>>>>> cityblock >>>>> layout >>>>>> and position buildings procedurally based on that. Do any of you >>> know of >>>>> a >>>>>> good system, even if not xsi based? >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> Morten >>>>>> ------ >>>>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>> with >>>>>> "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>>>> >>>>>> ------ >>>>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>> with >>>>>> "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>>> ------ >>>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Chris Marshall >>>> Mint Motion Limited >>>> 029 20 37 27 57 >>>> 07730 533 115 >>>> www.mintmotion.co.uk >>>> www.dot3d.com >>>> ------ >>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to >>> [email protected] with >>>> "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> ------ >>> Softimage Mailing List. >>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to >>> [email protected] >>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to >> [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
