CityEngine Released

[cyphyr]

CityEngine, a procedural city building program has just debuted with a free (unrestricted I think for non commercial uses) demo available on 26th May.

Link HERE

Richard

[rcallicotte]

Cool!  Thanks for the link.  Going on my to-do list.   

[sjefen]

This looks very interesting. Thanks for the link.
I can see many opportunitys with this and Terragen 2. I have already many ideas

[Will]

 Cool tool

[Mohawk20]

I love the randomness.. would be a cool tool!

[lightning]

im buyin that for sure

[Oshyan]

Veeery cool. I think I remember seeing this in an earlier research phase and I'm glad to see it's actually going to be made public. All we need now is a *plugin* for TG2 so you don't have to deal with exporting tons of geometry (and hoping the UV's match up).

- Oshyan

[cyphyr]

On the developers old site (you'll have to google for it, lost the link) there were some downloadable models of Pompeii (I think). Pretty large file sizes for whole cities (60mb+) but nothing beyond TG's abilities. The only problem is that the obj's come down with point data only, ie. points no polygons. Anybody know how to convert them to polygons?
Richard

[JimB]

I took a look at those Pompeii obj's. They came in fine with polys intact. But they certainly were huge and tested the machine to its limits. There seemed to be too many chimneys, though.

[Will]

the moon obj I used a while back (and some times today) was around 800mbs so TG can handle it.

[Will]

any idea on pricing yet?

[JimB]

any idea on pricing yet?

I don't think we'll find out until the 23rd (I think that's the correct date).

[lightning]

heres the link to the free models!
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~pmueller/wiki/CityEngine/DownloadModels

[nvseal]

I want. The free trial is music to my poor ears. 

[scott8933]

This looks like a brilliant piece of software, an awesome addition to the toolbox... but I wonder about that mysterious price. Hope they're not thinking along the lines of Massive when they decide their pricing structure!