by SIMPOLIUM·Modeling
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Cityscape Pro earns its place for pairing surface-driven road generation with a built-in V-Ray and Corona material library.
Cityscape Pro is a plugin from SIMPOLIUM that builds city environments inside 3ds Max. It uses a surface geometry as the base for all calculations: you click the Pick Surface button, select your surface, and once Curbed Areas are generated on top of it, the exposed part of the surface turns into a road.
The plugin ships with a Material Library of over 70 V-Ray and Corona presets. These materials apply to Cityscape elements as well as any other object in the scene. Generation runs through an interactive Generate button that turns blue and flashes when it detects changes, and turns red when it detects problems with the input elements.
For the base surface, clean uniform geometry works best, with quad polygons recommended and a low polycount for faster calculation times. Cityscape Pro uses a custom installer rather than the standard App Store installer. This is version 1.5.1, updated in August 2022.
Cityscape Pro is best for 3ds Max artists building city environments and roads on a base surface, using V-Ray or Corona materials.
Cityscape Pro is completely free to download and use.
Cityscape Pro uses a custom installer rather than the standard App Store installer, so setup runs through SIMPOLIUM's own process instead of the usual Autodesk app flow. The exact steps aren't detailed here, so check the developer's page for the current installation instructions and any requirements before you set it up. Because it doesn't use the standard installer, the developer's site is the reliable source for obtaining the correct package and confirming how to add it to 3ds Max.
Cityscape Pro ships with a Material Library of over 70 high-quality material presets built for both V-Ray and Corona. You can apply these materials to Cityscape's own elements or to any other object in your scene, so they aren't limited to the generated geometry. For more on the full set and how the library is organised, see the Material Library section on the developer's page.
Cityscape Pro uses a surface geometry as the base for all its calculations, so the quality of that surface affects the result. Clean, uniform geometry works best, without double faces, holes, flipped polygons or long triangles, and quad polygons are recommended. Keeping the surface area and polycount low also helps with calculation times. To start, you pick this surface with the Pick Surface button, then Curbed Areas can be generated on top of it.
Cityscape Pro is listed as free in this catalog. Licensing terms can change over time, so check SIMPOLIUM's page for the current details before you rely on it. Because the plugin uses a custom installer rather than the standard App Store installer, the developer's site is also the best place to confirm how to obtain, license and set it up correctly.
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