{"id":2857152,"date":"2025-06-26T10:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2857152"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:19:07","slug":"whats-new-in-arcgis-cityengine-2025-0","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/whats-new-in-arcgis-cityengine-2025-0","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in ArcGIS CityEngine 2025.0"},"author":251332,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771,37151,22871],"tags":[42631],"industry":[],"product":[36781],"class_list":["post-2857152","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-design-planning","category-state-government","tag-cityengine","product-city-engine"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":251332,"user_firstname":"Silvia","user_lastname":"Casas","nickname":"Silvia Casas","user_nicename":"scasas","display_name":"Silvia Casas","user_email":"scasas@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2021-07-13 16:41:27","user_description":"Silvia Casas is a Senior Product Manager for ArcGIS Urban and ArcGIS CityEngine at Esri. She has a Master's in Regional and Urban Planning from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona and a Bachelor's in Architecture from Rafael Urdaneta University in Venezuela. She joined Esri in 2004 supporting Professional Services and working on diverse projects focusing on 3D content creation for cities and urban planning initiatives. She now gathers requirements from users, manages the prioritization of the features that will be productized, and supports the development team in the evolution of ArcGIS as a Planning System.","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"CityEngine 2025.0 debuts Street Designer, CGA sequencing, visual CGA helpers, better rendering and fresh tutorials!","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Starting a new era in street design<\/h2>\n

The new Street Designer in ArcGIS CityEngine 2025.0 empowers city planners and urban designers to create multimodal streetscapes in full 3D. This helps cities effectively achieve policy goals such as Complete Streets, green spaces, road diets, and placemaking. Its compelling 3D visuals enhance public outreach by clearly illustrating project impacts, helping decision-makers and communities better understand and support street improvement initiatives.<\/p>\n

Street Designer lets you define street configurations from pedestrian walkways to multi-lane boulevards. It gives you fine-grained control over elements such as road markings, street furniture, parking bays and vegetation as all the models are generated procedurally. You can now create streets with multiple lanes directly in the 3D viewport using a new set of tools to add, delete and move single lanes on a street segment.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2857302,"id":2857302,"title":"Street Designer Tools GIF","filename":"1-StreetDesignerTools-GIF.gif","filesize":7445545,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-StreetDesignerTools-GIF.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/whats-new-in-arcgis-cityengine-2025-0\/1-streetdesignertools-gif","alt":"Street Designer Tools","author":"251332","description":"","caption":"","name":"1-streetdesignertools-gif","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2857152,"date":"2025-06-25 18:18:06","modified":"2025-06-25 18:18:50","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1080,"height":576,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-StreetDesignerTools-GIF-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-StreetDesignerTools-GIF.gif","medium-width":464,"medium-height":247,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-StreetDesignerTools-GIF.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":410,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-StreetDesignerTools-GIF.gif","large-width":1080,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-StreetDesignerTools-GIF.gif","1536x1536-width":1080,"1536x1536-height":576,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-StreetDesignerTools-GIF.gif","2048x2048-width":1080,"2048x2048-height":576,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-StreetDesignerTools-GIF-826x441.gif","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":441,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-StreetDesignerTools-GIF.gif","wide_image-width":1080,"wide_image-height":576}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Assign procedural rules to individual lanes to visualize them in high detail. To get you started we added a set of new lane rules to the ESRI.lib for lane types such as public transport, bicycle or car use. Just drag and drop the rules onto lanes in the 3D viewport to bring your vision to life.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2857382,"id":2857382,"title":"Esri.lib Lane Rules GIF","filename":"2-Esri.lib-Lane-Rules-GIF.gif","filesize":5957210,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Esri.lib-Lane-Rules-GIF.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/whats-new-in-arcgis-cityengine-2025-0\/2-esri-lib-lane-rules-gif","alt":"Esri.lib Lane Rules","author":"251332","description":"","caption":"","name":"2-esri-lib-lane-rules-gif","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2857152,"date":"2025-06-25 18:22:49","modified":"2025-06-25 18:24:02","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1080,"height":576,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Esri.lib-Lane-Rules-GIF-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Esri.lib-Lane-Rules-GIF.gif","medium-width":464,"medium-height":247,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Esri.lib-Lane-Rules-GIF.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":410,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Esri.lib-Lane-Rules-GIF.gif","large-width":1080,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Esri.lib-Lane-Rules-GIF.gif","1536x1536-width":1080,"1536x1536-height":576,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Esri.lib-Lane-Rules-GIF.gif","2048x2048-width":1080,"2048x2048-height":576,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Esri.lib-Lane-Rules-GIF-826x441.gif","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":441,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Esri.lib-Lane-Rules-GIF.gif","wide_image-width":1080,"wide_image-height":576}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Store a set of lanes as street configurations that you can re-apply across your city model which makes design iterations blazing fast. Multiple predefined configurations are included in CityEngine and ready for you to use in your urban design or as a starting point to create your own configurations.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2858202,"id":2858202,"title":"Street Configuration Library GIF","filename":"3-SC-Library-GIF_900x500.gif","filesize":9822518,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-SC-Library-GIF_900x500.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/whats-new-in-arcgis-cityengine-2025-0\/3-sc-library-gif_900x500","alt":"Street Configuration Library","author":"251332","description":"","caption":"","name":"3-sc-library-gif_900x500","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2857152,"date":"2025-06-25 20:04:40","modified":"2025-06-25 20:05:21","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":937,"height":500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-SC-Library-GIF_900x500-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-SC-Library-GIF_900x500.gif","medium-width":464,"medium-height":248,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-SC-Library-GIF_900x500.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":410,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-SC-Library-GIF_900x500.gif","large-width":937,"large-height":500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-SC-Library-GIF_900x500.gif","1536x1536-width":937,"1536x1536-height":500,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-SC-Library-GIF_900x500.gif","2048x2048-width":937,"2048x2048-height":500,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-SC-Library-GIF_900x500-826x441.gif","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":441,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-SC-Library-GIF_900x500.gif","wide_image-width":937,"wide_image-height":500}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

For more information check out the Introduction to Street Designer blog<\/a> and the Street Designer<\/a> section in our help.<\/p>\n

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CGA: Refined support for sequential programming<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2861942,"id":2861942,"title":"Sequential Programming GIF","filename":"SequentialProgramming-GIF2.gif","filesize":6951916,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SequentialProgramming-GIF2.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/whats-new-in-arcgis-cityengine-2025-0\/sequentialprogramming-gif2","alt":"Sequential Programming","author":"251332","description":"","caption":"","name":"sequentialprogramming-gif2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2857152,"date":"2025-06-26 14:48:59","modified":"2025-06-26 14:49:24","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1080,"height":608,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SequentialProgramming-GIF2-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SequentialProgramming-GIF2.gif","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SequentialProgramming-GIF2.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SequentialProgramming-GIF2.gif","large-width":1080,"large-height":608,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SequentialProgramming-GIF2.gif","1536x1536-width":1080,"1536x1536-height":608,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SequentialProgramming-GIF2.gif","2048x2048-width":1080,"2048x2048-height":608,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SequentialProgramming-GIF2-826x465.gif","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SequentialProgramming-GIF2.gif","wide_image-width":1080,"wide_image-height":608}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

We enabled new programming paradigms, such as sequential programming, with the CGA features introduced in\u00a0CityEngine<\/span>\u00a02024.1. In a sequential (rather than hierarchical) approach, geometry is tagged and collected step-by-step. In each step, the previous geometry can be extracted selectively and used to generate the next result, for example with 3D Boolean operations.<\/p>\n

Such workflows are easier and more intuitive in\u00a0CityEngine<\/span>\u00a02025.0 because of the following enhancements:<\/p>\n

Refined syntax for 3D Booleans<\/a>: Both operand Rules can now be directly written into the {} block and are applied on the same current shape.<\/p>\n

Simpler syntax for the inline keyword<\/a>:\u00a0inline<\/span>\u00a0can now be used without parameter \u2013\u00a0append<\/span>\u00a0is the default now.<\/p>\n

Supercharged comp split<\/a>: The new\u00a0noAlign<\/span>\u00a0mode keeps the input scope orientation, and the new\u00a0=:<\/span>\u00a0operator groups selected components by mesh connectivity.<\/p>\n

You can find the\u00a0Sequential_Programming_Example<\/span>, which was used to create the above pictures, in the\u00a0VCGA Playground Example<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 just download it from within\u00a0CityEngine<\/span>\u00a02025.0.<\/p>\n

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Visual CGA: Little helpers for productivity<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2857542,"id":2857542,"title":"VCGA enhancements GIF","filename":"5-VCGA-enhancements-GIF.gif","filesize":9517349,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-VCGA-enhancements-GIF.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/whats-new-in-arcgis-cityengine-2025-0\/5-vcga-enhancements-gif","alt":"Visual CGA enhancements","author":"251332","description":"","caption":"","name":"5-vcga-enhancements-gif","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2857152,"date":"2025-06-25 18:35:33","modified":"2025-06-25 18:35:56","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1080,"height":608,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-VCGA-enhancements-GIF-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-VCGA-enhancements-GIF.gif","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-VCGA-enhancements-GIF.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-VCGA-enhancements-GIF.gif","large-width":1080,"large-height":608,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-VCGA-enhancements-GIF.gif","1536x1536-width":1080,"1536x1536-height":608,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-VCGA-enhancements-GIF.gif","2048x2048-width":1080,"2048x2048-height":608,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-VCGA-enhancements-GIF-826x465.gif","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-VCGA-enhancements-GIF.gif","wide_image-width":1080,"wide_image-height":608}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

The\u00a0Visual CGA Editor<\/a>\u00a0received a series of improvements and features which boost productivity when working with VCGA designs. The new Find Node functionality in the toolbar lets you find that node you are looking for by typing in parts of the name. Direct support for @Material and @Color annotations in the node mini-inspector help reduce the number of nodes and connections in VCGA designs. The node layout has been optimized to better show long attr and extension point names, and the visualization of connections has been improved. Extension points which default to NIL are now visualized by an empty square and navigation has become more straight-forward by supporting 2D panning with the right mouse button.<\/p>\n

Components can be VCGA designs themselves. It is now possible to change the InitialShapes node name and set the default behavior of an extension to NIL.<\/p>\n

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Better rendering in the Viewport<\/h2>\n

Maybe you remember our blog post<\/a> about optimizing your GPU\u2019s rendering settings for better rendering in CityEngine. We took this one step further and now enable Antialiasing and Anisotropic filtering by default, resulting in smoother line rendering and sharper textures overall.<\/p>\n

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Tutorials and documentation<\/h2>\n

In conjunction with the Street Designer<\/a> we reorganized and updated multiple sections such as Create Shapes<\/a>, Edit Streets <\/a>\u00a0and Transform objects<\/a> in the docs by adding overview tables and splitting long pages into individual topics for better discoverability. Also we updated the Learn the basics<\/a> section under Get Started helping everyone new to CityEngine to get a quick overview.<\/p>\n

And finally, we continued the refurbishing effort of our tutorial material. For this release the following tutorials got a face lift:<\/p>\n