City Viewer aka Toy Town 2

City Viewer is released!

City Viewer is a separate application which can build and display a 3D model of a city generated in MFCG. In contrast with its spiritual predecessor Toy Town, it doesn't do procedural generation - the cities you see before importing your custom ones, are generated in MFCG as well, they just come bundled with the viewer.

Is it Toy Town 2?

I used to call this project Toy Town 2, but eventually decided to abandon the name in favour of the plain and unimaginative "City Viewer" because the images it produces doesn't look like toy towns. In some aspects this application is simpler or even cruder than the original Toy Town: no gable roofs, no windows, no trees. It's not a complete degradation though, the viewer is much faster and can handle much larger cities. Also I'm planning to improve visuals gradually, but I'm not sure yet what I am aiming for.

What are the plans for it?

As I said I am going to improve the quality of produced models and probably quality of render. I don't know if anybody really needs it (I mean if anybody has some real use for it, not just to have a look and say "right"), so for now I'll try to focus on stuff which interests me. For example, if everything goes well, the next release will include the "elevation" option to place a city on a hilly surface instead of a plane. Also this project will be used to test some UI libraries / approaches / ideas, which eventually may be adopted in MFCG.