CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City

Re:CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City by mcluck on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:53PM (#31759351)

It's a shame that it requires a business email just to try it out. My work doesn't have anything to do with city building but I'd love to use this to create a 3D model of my home town for my own fun.

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Re:CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City by fartcannon on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @05:08PM (#31759501)

There's a blender plugin that will let you import 3d map data including buildings and trees from google into blender and then do whatever you want with.

https://github.com/domlysz/BlenderGIS https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsModelsImporter

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Re:CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City by mcluck on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @05:12PM (#31759544)

Hey, hey, this looks great! Thanks!

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Re:CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City by TheaomBen on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:46AM (#31764156)

If you'll allow a shameless plug: I'm about to publish a python package to help doing just that, by combining photogrammetric projects.

The workflow is take a couple hundred overlapping pictures, compute a model using an existing backend and store the image/3d data. Rinse and repeat. When you have a few neighbouring projects, we recompute submodels at the boundary and merge the involved 3d models by reprojection.

Currently wrangling some issues around packaging, a BSD licensed functional prototype should be out sometime next week. I'd love to get some users or eyes on it, do get in touch!

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Re:CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City by InefficientRed on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @07:32PM (#31760775)

You can use any email address that's not gmail, icloud, yahoo, et al.

Just register a cheap domain name and point its DNS records at a free email provider (or setup an incoming mail server... outgoing with getting labeled spam is the hard part anyways)

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Re:CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City by slowhand09 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:04AM (#31766890)

Good to know. Unfortunately, my business email IS a gmail address.

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