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city generation

Plan out city layouts and have this neat tool populate them with 3D buildings. Now exports to other applications in USD format.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

Build CG cities by dragging and dropping nodes with the procedural city-generation software's new Visual CGA Editor.

Monday, August 5th, 2024

Check out the new features in the procedural 3D city generation software, including better terrain sculpting and section rendering.

Monday, June 5th, 2023

Check out the latest features in the procedural 3D city generation app, including workflow improvements when drawing street networks.

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022

3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.

Thursday, November 11th, 2021

Procedural city generation tool can now import assets in USD format for VFX work, and generate LODs automatically for Unreal Engine.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2020

Edit 3D buildings created in the city-generation tool procedurally in Maya via new integration plugin Serlio: free for non-commercial use.

Wednesday, October 9th, 2019

Procedural city generation software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, improved integration with Houdini and Unreal Studio.

Thursday, May 16th, 2019

Procedural 3D city-generation tool gets greater integration with Unreal Studio for VR work, new option to distribute geometry along curves.

Friday, May 11th, 2018

Powerful procedural city modelling software gets new Alembic exporter for use with visual effects pipelines.

Monday, June 27th, 2016

Matthias Buehler's seven-hour video explores how to create digital film sets with Esri's powerful procedural city-generation tool.

Sunday, August 2nd, 2015

Procedural 3D city-generation tool gets enhanced real-time shadows, plus improvements to scene editor.

Thursday, May 7th, 2015

Powerful procedural city-generation tool gets new plugins integrating it with Maya and Unity.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014