Back to work

SAAST just ended, so I'm back at the SIG Lab. Decided today would be a good day to start keeping track of what I do (should have really started earlier, oh well)

Recap so far:
Created a scalable shack that generates additional garage doors at different positions depending on how wide the shack is.


Maya model imported into CityEngine:




Planning out the city:
One of the problems I've been thinking about was how to specify which lot contained what building. One of the potential ideas that came up was to create a variable that generated a building number randomly, and grow the lot from that. Something like:

//ATTRIBUTES//
attr building_type = rand(1,10) //we have 10 building styles here

//RULES//
Lot -->
case building_type == 1: Shack1
case building_type == 2: Shack2
...
else: Generic_building

Unfortunately, nothing happened when I tried running the above code. The next idea I tried was to filter the type of structure generated by the scopes of the lot sizes. Currently, if the x-scope and z-scope differ no more than 1, then a shack-structure will be created from the Lot. If either scope is smaller than 20, then a generic building will be created from that Lot. Although this system isn't very sophisticated, it does do the job of partitioning different lots for different structures. More changes may be implemented in the future.