The CEUM 2025 recordings are now available to stream. The CityEngine User Meeting, hosted by the ICE.ART 3D Environment Conference, delivers a compact tour through current procedural-city workflows, ArcGIS-driven planning pipelines, and emerging production use cases in urban-scale visualization.

The lineup includes case studies such as “ArcGIS as a Planning System,” a deep dive into “Parisian shapes,” and a demonstration of how procedural modeling supports real-world planning tasks in projects like downtown Wake Forest.

A key technical highlight is the updated Python 3 support in CityEngine, presented with a focus on integration scenarios for automation, data pipelines, and asset generation. Esri’s Professional Services team also breaks down utilization trends and typical deployment patterns seen across planning offices and visualization studios.

All talks, intro to outro, are now online on the CEUM website and the official YouTube playlist.

The organizers also confirmed the next CityEngine User Meeting for 2 April 2026, giving everyone enough time to procedurally generate travel plans.

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If you missed CEUM 2025.I—short for CityEngine User Meeting—you can now play catch-up. The full video set from the event has been uploaded to the 3D Environment hub: www.3d-env.tech.

Esri, the company behind CityEngine, supported the event, and several speakers contributed presentations—though again, specifics aren’t listed in this release. Still, if you use or explore procedural urban design, it’s worth a watch.

Dr. Michael Bieri [Esri Inc.]

Devin Lavigne [Houseal Lavigne]

Dmitry Kudinov [Esri Inc.]

CEUM 2025.II: Save the Date

Looking ahead: CEUM 2025.II is already scheduled. The second CityEngine User Meeting of the year takes place on 17 September 2025. If you’re planning to speak at the event, organiser Matt is open for submissions—reach out to get involved.

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ICE 2025.II—also known as the 3D Environment Conference—is heading your way on 21 and 22 May 2025. Organised by the ICE.ART team, the event promises two days of 3D-centric knowledge exchange. The call to action is clear: registration is live, and it’s happening via the official website.

While the announcement doesn’t list topics or speakers yet, ICE conferences are typically known for bringing together professionals working in 3D environments, simulation, modelling, and real-time graphics. Still, no assumptions—what’s not explicitly listed stays out. The only certainty is: you can now register, and if you care about digital environments, you probably should. Check directly with the organisers via the official ICE site.

CEUM 2025.II: Save the Date

Looking ahead: CEUM 2025.II is already scheduled. The second CityEngine User Meeting of the year takes place on 17 September 2025. If you’re planning to speak at the event, organiser Matt is open for submissions—reach out to get involved.

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The CityEngine User Meeting 2025 (CEUM) is now open for registration. The annual event, focused on 3D environments, procedural modeling, and urban planning, takes place online on April 16, 2025, from 5–8 pm CEST (8–11 am PDT / 11 am–2 pm EDT). Participants can expect a mix of presentations, discussions, and insights from professionals in the field.

Call for Speakers

Got expertise in CityEngine and procedural 3D environments? The CEUM team is looking for speakers to share their knowledge with the community. Interested presenters can reach out via the official event page: www.3d-env.tech.

Join the 3D Environment Community

CEUM 2025 is an opportunity to connect with other CityEngine users, discuss workflows, and explore the latest in procedural modeling and urban design. Whether you’re a longtime user or just getting started, the event provides valuable insights into the tool’s applications in VFX, game development, and architecture.

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In nuce: Esri, the company behind the architecture software CityEngine, has published a new tutorial that demonstrates how to revitalise an Unreal Engine environment using automated assets. More specifically, readers are introduced to a workflow that can be used to replace assets in the Unreal Engine – after importing an ArcGIS CityEngine Datasmith scene. The tutorial was published on esri.com on 2 November this year. The authors of the tutorial are Avonlea Fotheringham and Benjamin Neukom. To illustrate the processes shown in the tutorial, the two authors use a concrete application example – the authors have linked the corresponding assets.

The authors of the tutorial: Avonlea Fotheringham is Esri Product Manager for ArcGIS CityEngine. She has been part of the Esri team for over three and a half years, joining as Social Media Manager. Avonlea holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from Carleton University in Canada. Benjamin Neukom is a software developer within the CityEngine Research & Development team in Zurich. Benjamin has been part of the Esri team for five years now. He has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science, both from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.

Click further: To the tutorial on the ArcGIS blog. Digital Production last reported on City Engine on 18 November this year ; at that time it was the User Meeting 2022, which was held for the sixth time this year. Five videos were made available as a follow-up – including one in which Benjamin Neukom talks about CityEngine Datasmith and plugins (see also below).

CityEngine User Meeting (CEUM) 2022: “Newest features in CityEngine 2022.1 – Part 2

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