The power of CityEngine in your favorite tool

Esri offers a variety of plugins for creatives as well as APIs for programmers to harness the power of of CityEngine in your favorite 3D tool or programming environment.

Houdini

Palladio

Palladio is a plugin for SideFX Houdini. It provides "surface operator" nodes which enable the execution of CityEngine CGA rules within Houdini networks. Therefore, 3D environment artists do not have to leave their familiar Houdini toolset anymore to make use of the procedural modeling power of CityEngine.

Maya

Serlio

Serlio is a plugin for Autodesk Maya. It provides a modifier node which enables the execution of CityEngine CGA rules within a Maya scene. This allows the 3D environment artist to make use of the power of procedural modeling in CityEngine without have to leave the familiar Maya toolset.

Rhino

Puma

Puma is a plugin for Rhino and Grasshopper. It provides a Rhino command and Grasshopper components which enable the execution of CityEngine rules within a Rhino scene.

Unreal

Vitruvio

Vitruvio is a plugin for Unreal Engine (UE). It enables the use of CityEngine CGA rules for the generation of procedural buildings in the Unreal Editor or at runtime.

Omniverse

Omniverse

The Omniverse Connector is a plugin for CityEngine itself. It allows users to conveniently send 3d city models to an Omniverse server for simulation, collaboration and high-end visualization. The Connector supports lightweight iteration on individual city parts by non-destructively updating previous exports.

Python

PyPRT

PyPRT provides a Python binding for PRT (Procedural RunTime) of CityEngine. This enables the execution of CityEngine CGA rules within Python. Using PyPRT, the generation of 3D content in Python is greatly simplified.

C++

CityEngine SDK

One of the most important components of CityEngine is the "Procedural Runtime" (PRT). It consumes Rule Packages (RPK) authored with CityEngine and generates the 3D geometry of building models.

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