CityEngine 2026 expands Python and streets
CityEngine 2026 brings its Python 3 API out of beta, improves CGA authoring and adds more precise street editing tools.
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CityEngine 2025.1 Expands CGA Geometry Tools and Introduces Python 3 API
CityEngine 2025.1 arrives with a broadened toolset for procedural modeling, architecture, and urban layout work. The update focuses…
CEUM 2025 Recordings Online: Cities, Pipelines & Python
All CEUM 2025 recordings are now online. The CityEngine User Meeting covers procedural-city workflows, ArcGIS-based planning pipelines, and fresh Python 3 support — a compact update for anyone working in urban-scale visualization.
Procedural Thursday: CityEngine Users Meet Online Tomorrow
Tomorrow, 5 p.m. CET: CityEngine User Meeting: free, online, and full of procedural nerds. Bring your node graphs.
CityEngine 2025.0: Street Designer Arrives, Perpetual Licensing Leaves
CityEngine 2025.0 brings multi-lane Street Designer, Visual CGA Editor improvements, and drops perpetual licenses for ArcGIS Professional subscription only.
CEUM 2025.1 Videos are online :)
CEUM 2025.II follows on 17 September, and if you missed the last one: no worries, the CEUM 2025.I talk videos are already online and ready for your next coffee break.
Mark Your Calendars: ICE & CEUM Return
ICE 2025.I is coming up on 21–22 May—mark your calendar and grab your spot now, registration’s already open. CEUM 2025.II follows on 17 September!
CityEngine User Meeting 2025: Registration Open for CEUM
Registration for the CityEngine User Meeting 2025 is now live. The online event takes place on April 16, 2025, from 5–8 pm CEST.
Here comes the new Cityengine
CityEngine 2024.0 offers new tools such as the Visual CGA Editor, ArcGIS Urban Integration and the ability to share web scenes.
Elementary!
You’ve surely seen the posters: There’s a new Pixar movie, this time asking “What if the Aristotelian elements have feelings?” The story plays out in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together.
Digital Production 2023, the second!
And here is the spring edition of DP! On board this time: Emil / MaxR at the Filmakademie, Nuke 14 (including part three of the best little helpers) and a big workshop on BMD Cloud. For those who prefer to read about projects: Trixter's work on Shehulk, a dialect comedy in HFR and two award-winning student projects from HFF Munich.
CityEngine meets Omniverse
Omniverse in its various components can serve as a "meeting point" for the various DCC packages and their output - and now everyone is wondering
and now everyone who wants to work with it is wondering how well it works. So let's just ask Simon Haegler from the CityEngine team how well you can develop with the Nvidia environment.
How to connect CityEngine with the Unreal Engine?
The architecture software CityEngine can also do Unreal - but how does it work? Product manager Avonlea Fotheringham and software developer Benjamin Neukom show the workflow.
CityEngine User Meeting 2022 as video stream!
What took place at this year's CEUM is now available as a five-part video series with a running time of around 100 minutes.
How to recreate the title sequence from Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis film?
Motion graphics expert Bahnoor Barry shows at Siggraph how artists can recreate the eye-catching lead graphics from the Elvis Presley biopic. A tutorial with Cinema 4D R26 and Red Giant Tools.
City Generator mit Houdini und UE 5!
Tech artist and Houdini expert Simon Verstraete presents his procedural city generator. This was created with: Unreal Engine 5, Houdini - and Point Clouds & Curve Nodes.
Esri releases new version of CityEngine!
Not just for architects and city planners: Version 2022.0 of the procedural city generator is now compatible with Twinmotion from Epic Games.
CityEngine 2021.1 Expands BIM Support
Esri CityEngine 2021.1 adds IFC interchange, terrain-sculpting updates, material export, dashboard tools and improved 360 VR rendering.
ArcGIS CityEngine 2021 Adds VR Viewer and Unreal Engine Export
Esri’s ArcGIS CityEngine 2021 introduced a web VR viewer, terrain sculpting, improved transforms and Unreal Engine import.
CityEngine User Meeting 2020 Webinars Available Online
Two recorded CityEngine User Meeting sessions cover urban planning, architecture, entertainment and real-time production.
CityEngine 2019.1 Released
And on we go with city generation: CityEngine 2019.1 with new features and a Maya plug-in.
The New CityEngine!
The 2019.0 release gives CityEngine improved design tools, revised documentation, many new CGA operations, a new license model and much more!
CityEngine 2019!
With CityEngine 2019.0, one of the biggest CityEngine versions in recent years has been released. Our CityEngine team, which now consists of 17 people at the ESRI R&D Centre in Zurich, has been hard at work programming every nook and cranny, so that with this version we can really offer you many new features as well as a solid revision of old functionality.
Vrbn MasterPlanner: A Smart City Planning Tool for Esri CityEngine
Planning our environment and especially our cities is becoming ever more complex. Esri CityEngine has long addressed this topic and is regularly used in Hollywood blockbusters such as the recently Oscar-winning “Blade Runner 2O49”. – by Bruno Seiler and Matthias Bühler
CityEngine 2018 Update
Esri towers further into unimagined heights with the latest updates to the popular engine.
Masterplanner for CityEngine Is Here!
Fresh from Uster in Switzerland comes the “Vrbn MasterPlanner” – a planning tool for urban designers that, as a plug-in, simplifies working with CityEngine and makes procedural thinking and modelling accessible to everyone.
Scanline VFX Showreel 2017
Batman, Superman, Captain America and Iron Man, plus an epochal earthquake and many other destructions – in its latest showreel, Scanline shows what has recently been going through its pipeline. Incidentally: They are also at animago!
CityEngine 2017 – We Look Behind the Scenes
At FMX, we had the opportunity to speak with the makers of CityEngine 2017. The full article will be in the next issue, but we do not want to withhold a small taste from you.
animago CONFERENCE Highlights 2017
Just under one month until the animago AWARD & CONFERENCE! We already have plenty of program items to announce for this year's conference at Munich's Gasteig. Here is the overview.
Talk Videos from the First CityEngine User Meeting
This year, the "European CityEngine User Meeting" organized by vrbn took place in Copenhagen for the first time. The six videos of talks from the one-day event provide a comprehensive overview of working with the procedural modeling engine.
Webinar on CityEngine in “Independence Day: Resurgence”
In this VES webinar on Friday, 22 July, you will see how huge city backdrops are created for feature films such as the new Roland Emmerich blockbuster.
CityEngine 2016 Released
In version 2016, the Alembic Exporter has been added as a feature to CityEngine, as has integration of the ArcGIS platform for importing elevation data from the real world.
CityEngine Becomes ArcGIS
Esri has bought Procedural – and with it one of the most prominent packages for landschape and city generation in architecture, games and films.
SIGGRAPH 2010: City Building Made Easy: CityEngine 2010 Released
Procedural Inc. has now presented the latest version of the city-building package “CityEngine 2010.” This version adds features for dynamic city views, node-based editing and a drawing module for building façades.
animago CONFERENCE: Generating Cities with CityEngine
Pascal Müller of Procedural presentsthe CityEngine under the title "The Future of 3D City Modeling".
The Programme for the animago CONFERENCE Is Set!
Look forward to top-class talks and masterclasses as part of the animago CONFERENCE 2009 on Thursday, 29.10.09 and Friday, 30.10.2009.
Procedural Introduces CityEngine 2009.2
Procedural Inc. announced CityEngine 2009.2, the latest version of its software for rapidly creating, visualizing and analysing large 3D cities.
Macworld 2009: CityEngine Meets Cupertino
CityEngine software now also available for Mac OS X
Urban Planning at the Push of a Button with CityEngine
Fastest modeling with procedural technology / free 30-day trial available from 23 May 2008