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CapitanRed
06-08-2006, 10:42 PM
I was wondering how the hell they do this big cities in films like King Kong, or Day after tomorrow, or Godzilla or which film ever. I know that they used city bot for King Kong. but what is City Bot exactly? how does it work? is it possible to get that?
I also heared about city engine, and watched some animations which were done with that. the cities are huge!!! but is this not something which I can buy?

And if I do not need these plugins to make a nice animation in a city, how can I do it then? with matte paintings? can somebody explain me that, or give me a link where it is explained?
I can't figure that imagine how this works:shrug:

i tried to do a animation only with simple boxes, no texture. but it killed my machine, so I wonder how they do that for films.

WilburLoyd
06-11-2006, 06:44 PM
http://www.cgarchitect.com/upclose/article1_CW.asp

It is my understanding that City Bot, a proprietary software program, was used to randomly texture and detail the smaller buildings while landmarks were textured and detailed manually. The library of period textures and architectural details City Bot drew from was created manually as well. City Bot speed up the process of finishing the vast number of filler buildings required to create the shot.

CapitanRed
06-13-2006, 11:22 AM
her is the link to the City engine:

http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~pmueller/wiki/CityEngine/Front

It's very cool, but the animagtions and the pics are all i have seen of it...

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