Windows 32bit build only

Fixes problem with exporter

Changes / Fixes:

• Python API updated to Jython 2.5.1

• Linux SWT fix : non-responding GUI buttons
• Fixed a bug in terrain interpolation

Features

• Welcome wizard for easy setup of first-time CityEngine startup
• Completely revised mouse interaction in 3D viewport
• Added mouse navigation and keyboard schemes for major 3D applications
• Added compass in 3D viewport
• Value fields in inspector and dialogs can now be adjusted using sliders
• 3Dconnexion 3D Mouse support
• Immediate mode now has "single-object" and "multi-object" modes
• New interactive initial shape split tool
• Revised interaction for graph and shape edit tools
• Navigation tools (track, tumble, dolly) now also available in tool bar
• CGA: Support for advanced roof types, including roofs on concave polygons, overhangs and multi-face initial shapes
• CGA: Added "innerRect" operation that places a rectangle within convex polygons
• CGA: Added "offset" operation (supports positive and negative polygon offset)
• CGA: Added "setupProjection" and "projectUV" operations which permit more flexible texturing of models, including global texture projection.
• CGA: New component split ("comp") selectors for roof and offset operations
• CGA: New component split "=" operator to combine selection into one successor shape
• CGA: Added "comp.index" and "comp.total" shape attributes per component split selector
• CGA: Added geometry.nEdges function
• CGA: Extrude now supports multi-face initial shapes
• CGA: Added selectors for inter/intra occlusion
• CGA: Support for concave trim - limited trim planes
• CGA: concatenate operations for string + bool

Changes / Fixes

• Improved memory handling (notably for large textured scenes)
• Improved opengl rendering stability
• Improved integrated help / web support
• Improved file selector performance
• Improved user feedback in error cases
• Generally improved undo/redo handling
• Fixed workspace issues with scene names containing spaces
• Improved handling of CityEngine configuration files when file permissions are restricted
• Fixed lost .init file settings
• Added "safe mode" for startup (pass "-safeMode" on command line)
• Added "auto exit" mode (useful for networked licensing)
• Mouse wheel now always assigned to zoom/dolly in 3D viewport
• Added standard keybindings for dolly/zoom (ctrl-plus/minus and ctrl-numpad-plus/minus)
• Dolly with shift modifier (ctrl on mac) now moves Point-of-Interest. Useful at short camera distances
• Fixed transform tool (move, scale, rotate) update issues when used in immediate mode
• Fixed panorama with wide camera angles
• Layer visibility changes now preserve selection
• Improved isolation of initial shape components (isolate whole initial shape for better visual feedback)
• Improved handling of street width attributes when editing initial shapes
• "Reverse normal" for initial shape does not change first edge any longer
• "Separate faces" now correctly maintains rule file settings
• Fixed issues when deleting components from some multi-face initial shapes
• Fixed terrain cursor y-coordinate rounding to 0.0 if no terrain is present
• Shape tree options (e.g., "Show Models") now reset on restart / scene change
• Added some missing shape / graph operations to context menu
• Improved grow streets algorithm (better quarter subdivision)
• Improved cleanup graph algorithm (fixed segment intersection)
• Improved create shapes algorithm (better behaviour for street networks with many small segments)
• Fixed poly count in asset inspector
• CGA: Component splits now support interleaved edge-vertex splits
• CGA: Fixed issues with non-boolean expressions in CGA case statement
• CGA: Fixed bug in "alignScopeToAxes"
• CGA: Fixed problem with gable roof on very small polygons
• CGA: Fixed texturing issues when using "alignScopeToGeometry" and "alignScopeToAxes"
• CGA: Fixed numerical issues with Euler angles
• CGA: Fixed extrude indexing issue
• CGA: Fixed bugs in "convert" function
• CGA: Fixed issue when using indices in a component split on an empty selection
• CGA: Fixed bottom-face indexing after extrude/roof/taper operations (previously, first edge not kept)
• CGA: "offsetUV" deprecated and renamed to "translateUV"
• CGA: Better endless recursion detection for (1) recursive functions (attributes) and (2) recursive rules which result in shape-trees with large breadth (but small depth)
• CGA: Max. texture size is now user controllable (via grammar core preferences), defaults to 2048 pixels (was 1024)
• CGA: Improved overall stability of occlusion testing
• CGA: Occusion testing: Special configuration "face is completely covered by a side of a volume" is now included in the inside case
• CGA: Fixed a bug connected to usage of convert() in imported cga files.
• CGA: fixed some issues connected to attribute mapping (in some cases, attributes with the same name but different signatures led to a crash)
• CGA: Non-boolean expressions are no longer valid in case statements (led to a run-time error before)
• Fixed issues with import conversion of some CityEngine scenes
• Shape file import now maintains first edge of shapes
• Improved export engine (lower memory consumption, better speed and error handling)
• Scripting: Fixed issues with loading import/export presets
• Mac OS X: Fixed inspector redraw issues
• Mac OS X: Ctrl + left mouse button now shows context menu in viewport
• Improved rendering on OSs with window compositing (Windows 7, Mac OS X)

Features:

• Model export to the 3DS format (useful for e.g. Autodesk LandXPlorer or Google Sketchup)
• Shape file import supports now more than 80 of the common map projections, in addition support for elevation and better user feedback
• Revised memory management and improved performance allowing for editing and processing of massive data sets
• Introduction of precision handling for global coordinate systems (no more floating errors for scenes far beyond the origin)
  
• Completely revised Python scripting API (e.g. more shape manipulation functions)
• Selection menu allows for advanced selection, e.g. all initial shapes with the same rule file or shape symbol etc.
• Support for handling of selection sets (save the current selection, edit & re-apply it later on)
• Shape editing: introduced object coordinate system and "lock current coordinate system" switch
• Shape editing: user interface for numerical control
• Preferences: new page to reset all settings
• CGA: introduced object coordinate systems and related conversion commands (convert, rotate, translate)
• CGA: extrude operation: new axis selectors world.x/y/z set pivot orientation analogous to normal extrude
• CGA: introduced versioning to track incompatibilities
• CGA: new operations: offsetUV, scaleUV
  
  

Changes / Fixes:

• Licensing system: many bugfixes and better error reporting
• Rendering: fixed bug on ATI graphics cards (textured objects were rendered black)
• Rendering: fixed numerical issues with large coordinates
• Shape editing: first point is now mapped to terrain, not xz-plane
• Improved snapshot feature (optional capturing of decorations)
• Better rendering performance, improved transparency handling, improved shadows
• Improved picking of objects in viewport
• Extended light setup
• Asset inspector: fixed change detection
• Batch export: fixed a material sharing/mesh merging bug
• Batch export: fixed "missing normals" bug
• Batch export: introduced presets
• Batch export: various improvements (logging, speed, memory consumption, error reporting and compatibility)
• Undo/redo:  fixed several bugs
• Street grow: improved user interface and algorithm
• Lot subdivision: improved user interface and attribute handling
• Improved speed and interactivity during model generation
• CGA: fixed several numerical problems
  
• CGA: added atan2 function
• CGA: added material.name read access
• CGA: fixed alignScopeToGeometry "auto" mode bug and changed behaviour if all edges are coplanar: the longest edge is taken  
• CGA: fixed spurious “grammarcore out of memory” error
• Mac OSX: enabled vsync
  
  

Changes / Fixes:

• fixed issues with lat/lon coordinates in shapefile (shp) importer
• fixed "center" issue in osm/shp importer
  
  

Features:

• added new projection options for SHP import/export and OSM import
• enhanced "Massive" (tm) batch export: added options for scene scale unit and sound locator group name
• improved screenshot feature (now available via python scripting)
  
  

Changes / Fixes:

• fixed SHP (shape files) attribute import
• resolved shadow z-fighting issue when camera is close to object
• fixed deletion of objects in multiple layers
• increased marker visibility distance from 2000 to 5000
• fixed "wireframe on shaded" for initial shapes
• smooth wireframe now disabled in default settings
• macosx: fixed 3d viewport redrawing issues
• correctly flush command streams after "Massive" export
• reduced memory usage of OBJ reader (fixes out-of-mem crash in obj inspector)
• fixed cursor icons for interactive tools
• release unused assets/textures after batch model export
• resolved numerical problem in coordinate merger
• renderer: model creation/deletion speedup (windows / linux only)
• fixed CEJ importer
• fixed OpenStreetMap OSM import
• fixed OpenGL out-of-memory bug when updating shape tree
  
  

New Features:

• Python scripting interface
• Rule-based reporting feature
• Occlusion testing for generated models
• Interactive editing and model updating
• Generation of complex street shapes (round street corners, junctions and entrances)
• New operations for working with initial shapes
• Completely revised import / export capabilities
• Undo / redo
• FLEXnet-based license management (node-locked and floating)

Changes / Fixes:

• Drastically improved rendering speed & memory handling
• Revised inspector GUI
• Mac OS X Version 64bit only (requires min Intel Core 2 Duo processor)

• 3D Viewport

  • Added Shadows

  • Fixed: Camera 'angle of view' problem
  • Fixed: Robust handling of degenerate meshes
  • Added:Terrain cursor

• Model generation / CGA:

  • Binary transparency for generated models
  • Added: 'isPlanar' function
  • Added: Access to initial shape name and shape symbol from CGA
  • Added: Occlusion testing
  • Fixed: Euler angles
  • Fixed: Texture projection after pivot transformation ('comp' operation)
  • Fixed: Lost material ('comp/split/trim' operations)
  • Fixed: Acute-angle trim problem
  • Fixed: 'split' always sets scope of successors to bounding box of geometry
  • Fixed: 'setPivot' now numerically stable
  • Fixed: Extruded geometries retain indices

• Export
  • Fixed: Material assignments
  • Added: Initial Shape Export
    • Shapefile (including attributes)
    • OBJ
    • DXF
  • Added: Graph Export
    • Shapefile (including attributes)
    • DXF (including street width)

• Import
  • Completely revised: DXF (import graph & initial shapes)
  • Added: Shapefile (import graph & initial shapes, including attributes)
  • Revised: OSM (import graph)

• Street Shapes
  • Round corners
  • Junctions
  • Improved conflict resolving strategy
  • Added connection information
  • Fixed many minor issues (e.g. 0-width shapes)

• Minor
  • Revised: Shape & Graph Alignment
  • Subdivision: Multi-face support
  • Attribute Layers: 16-bit support
  • Fixed: Slow-delete-graph bug