City Viewer

Hi. I can’t see where to paste the json file. 

Hey watabou! I just want to say first, these tools are absolutely amazing! I used this along with the village generator and alot of other tools to make cool towns in Minecraft. In the process of doing so, I found some things that would make the viewer (and specifically the export as obj function) a lot more useful if added. I'm not sure how many of these you have already heard, but it's worth a shot.

First, the paths. I noticed that a lot of the things shown in the viewer don't actually show up in the obj export, but the paths stuck out to me as something essential to the layout of the towns that just wasn't there. So, whether its just a few connected points showing where the paths are supposed to go, or fully wide like shown in the viewer, implementing that would help quite a bit. 

In a similar vein to the paths, it would be useful if water features could also be exported. Though, they may look similar to paths, so that's where this next point comes in.

It would be nice if there was an option when exporting to have the roofs, house walls, town walls, and possibly path and water exported separately, whether that be as different obj files or as different objects in the file; I'm not exactly sure how obj files work. This is because, if you try to import the file into Blender or another 3d modeling program, you currently have to manually seperate all of the parts to change their color or material.

Chimneys would be another great addition, but purely for aesthetic. They could probably be populated onto the roofs somewhat similarly to trees.

Another slight quality feature would be an option to randomize the roof type and pitch for each individual house. This would make them look slightly more realistic and interesting to look at.

Similarly, changing the size of windows on each house would be a great feature to add. This has the same reasoning as the previous suggestion. 

On the topic of windows, I thought it was kind of odd how there is an option for what percent of windows are lit, but not for how many windows in general there are. It would work basically the same I think, just removing a certain percent of the windows. This also has the same realism and interest reasoning.

Just one more thing about windows. This may or may not be a bug, I'm not sure, but in the obj export, windows that were lit become holes in the wall. I thought this might be a bug because the unlit windows still had geometry.

This one you've probably heard a hundred times, but it would be nice if there was an option to have something like the mansion generator implemented into this to give the houses more interesting shapes in 3d. I know you can do something similar with singular houses in the city generator, but having the option to do that in bulk would add a whole new layer of depth. 

Wow this got a lot longer than I was intending, sorry about that! Thank you for reading this, have a nice day!

This is really cool and very useful.

Couple of little suggestions... Would it be possible to add a pause/play key for the animation? For example, hitting the space bar. It would make it much easier to stop the rotation animation (instead of using the menu) when it is just right to get a nice view of the settlement. Edit: Scratch that. Just worked out how to use fly mode to get any view I want :)

Also, what about a tree option for mixed conical and ellipsoid trees?

Are you intending to take account of ground elevations at some future point? For example, to generate 3D ground from the ground contours in Village Generator. This is not a feature request, just curious.

Help City Build Are Not Loading When I Upload A .json File

I am trying to parse through your JSON to get the coordinates of the buildings, but unable to do so. I want to recreate your city in unity with gameojbects. Do you have a solution ?

Your tools are so awesome! For some reason though the viewer doesn't accept any of my keyboard input anymore. Only mouse clicks and movement have an effect. As far as I remember it has worked before.

Hi, I also got the bug that the json file for cities only shows castle and walls.

I read your reported solution but can't manage to find the path you suggested.

Have you any idea on what mught be wrong?

When I load json, I only get the castle and the walls... no buildings.

How export the entire map, not only the buildings?btw, Really nice tool!

I am having old issue - trying to import a city from MFCG and it appears without buildings. Could it be a problem of a custom city size? (my city has size value of 110)

First - Really love this tool for visualizing neighborhoods.  Being able to navigate the streets and such is just great.  That said, would it be possible to add doors to the buildings?

When I try to import a json from a city made on MFCG it just show the error "No Buildings", but when I try VG or NG the city is correctly imported.

Love the tool! Is there a way to make the exported obj more manifold? The windows seem to be fairly loose geometry, and none of the buildings have floors. Making it require a lot of extra work to make models out of the city. This is doable for smaller villages, but for a large city its not. 

Also, are terrain features contained within the obj? Any things I export are only buildings. 

Great tool though! Helps 

What is the proportion of the exported OBJ? How many times do I need to import Blend to be the same size as the actual one?

SO much awesome here.  I exclusively use all of your different map generators to run my entire campaign, and my players are constantly blown away by the amount of detail I'm able to give them in the game.  I just joined you on Patreon, and you'll see you're the ONLY person I'm on Patreon for.  So yeah, LOVE your work.  

Here's some wish-list items for the 3D Generator if you have time:  

1.) The OBJ export: Export in separate material groups so when we pull it into something like Blender, we can add a good bit more detail (different roofs, walls, tree textures, etc.)  Also export it with the ground groups so we can see the roads/farms.  

2.) In animation mode, allow us to adjust (slider maybe?) rotation speed.  

3.) Allow us to have the buildings cast shadows.  (Should be doable on beefier machines.)  

4.) Randomize building colors similarly to how the roofs are slightly randomized.  

5.) If the "center" of rotation/screen could be adjusted with a single-click, we could just use this live in-game as a living 3D map of where players are currently located.

Most of this could be handled by ourselves if the first option (OBJ advancements) were an option.  We could then import the more advanced objects into Tabletop Simulator to PHYSICALLY walk the players through the city, even giving them "line of site" fog of war.  Some epic stuff could be done with that.  

Again, love your work!  Thanks for creating so many awesome tools!

Hi there. Great app. I have some feedback and suggestions.

1# When trying to open a json file to load a map made in MFCG it doesn't show any json files, you have to change the file type within open file window from custom to All. I suggest by default it will have all or json so we dont have to do that. Also a new user might not think to choose ALL.

2# When switching from map mode to ground mode, it would be great if the center of the screen is where the ground mode will start. So if you are zoomed all the way in and switch to ground mode it will start where you are on the map more or less. Making it easier to find a place you want to explore from in map mode first.

3# When in map mode, zoomed out would be handy if you could double lmb somewhere on the map and the screen will center the map there, which would work in tandem with suggestion #2

4# On the rmb menu, would be nice to have preset dawn, morning, afternoon, night to change to. I know there is hotkeys to randomly change lighting. But being able to use presets would be useful too.

5# In map mode it would be nice if we could export as PNG (perhaps this will appear where export as .obj was when in map mode) this way we could gen a city within the app and export it without having to use MFCG)

> Question: Why is it when you press 5 and press it again and again the roof tops change size etc. I notice it is changing colors of some roofs to light or darker shade, but also sometimes lowering the size of the roof or raising it. Unless it is the trick of the eye?

Pressing 6 causes the lighting to change but all the gables or roofs disappear entirely. Keep pressing 6 and its just lighting changes, but the trees can shrink or get bigger. Roofs do not reappear.

This all might be intended. 

Love the heck out of this tool. Any chance for the trees to be included in the .obj export?

Will you ever make your stuff downloadable?

Any chance it would be possible to have a scale factor for building heights? Between that and removing the gable roofs it would make for a great modern downtown generator!

Couple things: how do you export JSON file from MFCG?

Also for the City Viewer I would love the ability to get the whole scene when exporting not just the buildings.

PS. I'm loving all your tools! I'm using them as blockout tool for Unreal maps. Also I'm thinking the Village generator map image would make beautiful in-game map and/or image for a in-game "you-are-here info-stand".

Doesnt work when i try to import just says there are no buildings

This looks amazing! I have a question/feature request though: Do you have plans to support OSM files? Alternatively, if I convert an OSM file to a JSON file using ogr2ogr, will the City Viewer support it?

There's a mod for Cities Skyline that exports an OSM file of a city, and I wanted to see if I can't convert the OSM file to a JSON file and then have your City Viewer generate me a 3D model that I can then take into Tabletop Simulator or FoundryVTT via the 3D Canvas.

Fantastic tool! Can we export with materials?

This doesn't seem to be working today - all black screen

awesome tool! one problem, though - it says you can use .json files from the village generator, but i've tried two different files and neither have loaded any buildings. Help?

really nice tool but can you update the export to include floor,trees, water and farm land.

It's extemely nice.

I have a little suggestion. Could you add a feature so that I can move quickly when 1 viewing.

For example, press "Shift" to move at five times the speed

This program is amazing, but I seem to be having trouble importing my json of the city I made on the city generator. Whenever I try, it says "No buildings!" and returns to the sample city. Any ideas on how I can fix this?

niceeeeee

I'm currently on this WIP: (render result) & more recent version (2+ days) [HERE] (For some reason i the second ver tha grass got some horrible coastline bugs) and wdytai?, it's pretty hard to put those lights in the houses, soon i'm planning to put some light source windows there and textures, even if i still haven't managed to get them right ever xDDD

It's a great program, it's very pleasing in my opinion to make towns and this makes it a lot easier, thanks xD

Is there anyway to export the colours along with the OBJ?

I love export option! In fact i even did this render of city i exported, althought i have found some small issues model.
1) City wall exits have faces that are clip through each other
2) Walls also can be cliped inside themselves sometimes, it is pretty annoying
3) There are long random triangles where the roads shoud be, but it is very rare, i had this glitch only once
Anyway, here is my render of cardboard city generated with your wonderful tool

So I made an fbx out of one of my cities I created and passed it to unreal and unity and when they come out they appear concave and completely broken? I am kinda new to all this rotin tottin exportin and wanted to know what am I doing wrong how could I fix it?

Apologies if I am being stupid but when I import my city into the viewer it only displays the castle/temple - every other building is missing. Is there a setting I need to tweak or is this done by design?

Cheers and gratz on the great work.