{"id":3865,"date":"2017-12-12T17:59:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2017-12-12T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:59:11","slug":"making-the-craftsman-rule-more-interactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=3865","title":{"rendered":"Making the &#8216;Craftsman Rule&#8217; more interactive&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In CityEngine you can use a feature called &#8216;handles&#8217; to add visual controls to your models.\u00a0 This means you don&#8217;t have to interact with specific numbers or values in the inspector.\u00a0 It also means many more people can use your rules as they were intended.\u00a0 \u00a0The real issue here is how much control do you give you users via this method?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As you can see there is a balance to be had between being highly configurable and being too configurable (i.e. too many attributes to muck around with!).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3861\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3861 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Craftsman_02.gif?resize=400%2C399&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"399\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early days on the handles, but I&#8217;m getting there!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many people have reached out to me asking whether this rule file will be available for sale sometime.\u00a0 The answer is probably!\u00a0 Drop me a message if you&#8217;re interested and I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes.\u00a0 \u00a0Or keep an eye on twitter, LinkedIn or this blog for more updates.\u00a0 I suspect I will have to stop sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In CityEngine you can use a feature called &#8216;handles&#8217; to add visual controls to your models.\u00a0 This means you don&#8217;t have to interact with specific numbers or values in the inspector.\u00a0 It also means many more people can use your rules as they were intended.\u00a0 \u00a0The real issue here is how much control do you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":3867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,145,319,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arcgis","category-cityengine","category-craftsman","category-gis","category-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3869,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/3869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}