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Can we use CityEngine to add buildings and vegetation?

Open pengzhenghao opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments
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Link: https://nv-tlabs.github.io/NTG/

I think that could be a good enhancement for PGDrive! Especially for RGB rendering!

But it seems that the CityEngine is a commercial software? That could harm the open-source feature of PGDrive!

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pengzhenghao avatar Dec 28 '20 09:12 pengzhenghao

Yes, it is commercial software. How to get various models is the most difficult part. It seems that it generates models by procedural generation too. Panda3d also supports procedural generating models. After surveying this field and learning from CItyEngine, maybe we can try this in the future.

QuanyiLi avatar Dec 29 '20 16:12 QuanyiLi

Yes, it is commercial software. How to get various models is the most difficult part. It seems that it generates models by procedural generation too. Panda3d also supports procedural generating models. After surveying this field and learning from CItyEngine, maybe we can try this in the future.

"Panda3d also supports procedural generating models" what does this mean? Can we procedural generate vehicle model now for a start?

pengzhenghao avatar Apr 26 '21 14:04 pengzhenghao

Take a look at this recent project from NYU: https://github.com/ai4ce/RealCity3D https://openreview.net/pdf?id=VjFn0L5T7NU. I know the PI and potentially we can have some collaboration

zhoubolei avatar Jun 29 '21 17:06 zhoubolei