Esri

CityEngine是三维城市建模的首选软件，应用于数字城市、城市规划、轨道交通、电力、管线、建筑、国防、仿真、游戏开发和电影制作等领域。

Esri CityEngine可以利用二维数据快速创建三维场景，并能高效的进行规划设计。而且对ArcGIS的完美支持，使很多已有的基础GIS数据不需转换即可迅速实现三维建模，减少了系统再投资的成本，也缩短了三维GIS系统的建设周期。

Esri CityEngine

2016.0 Win x64

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Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) solutions, announced the release of Esri

CityEngine

2016. This revolutionary modeling technology allows GIS professionals, 3D artists, architects, and urban planners to create smart 3D city models in a matter of minutes. With just a few clicks, the new Get Map Data interface will import satellite imagery, 3D terrain, and street data from any city in the world. What was once a very complicated and time-intensive process now can be done quickly and simply.

“This release integrates CityEngine with Esri’s powerful ArcGIS platform,” said Pascal Mueller, director of the Esri R&D Center, Zurich. “We created a simple way to import real-world elevation data and basemaps from ArcGIS Online. We have also introduced support for Esri’s new 3D streaming services with scene layer packages [.SPKs]. Scene layers can be hosted in the cloud and viewed using ArcGIS Scene Viewer, a browser-based application for viewing 3D content at any scale and with unlimited extent.”

Another highly requested feature that’s included with CityEngine 2016 is the Alembic exporter. The Alembic format is used by visual effects and animation professionals and is well-suited to handling massive 3D models. It is now possible to batch generate tens of thousands of building geometries at the highest level of detail and visualize them in a renderer without needing a complicated production pipeline.

“CityEngine has clearly become the standard for designing high-quality, large-scale 3D cities in feature films. It has proved itself again as an invaluable tool during the demanding production of Independence Day: Resurgence,” said CityEngine expert Matthias Buehler, founder of vrbn (vrbn.io), former ScanlineVFX environment developer lead and Gnomon Workshop instructor. “CityEngine 2016 impresses with major new features: The Alembic exporter allows for an efficient integration of CityEngine in state-of-the-art VFX pipelines, while Get Map Data provides an excellent tool to load real-world, georeferenced satellite imagery, terrain, and streets directly from the web into CityEngine for quick design iterations of shot layouts.”