Just when you thought FME couldn’t be more fun, we’re offering an entire webinar on FME and gaming! There are two different ways to interpret “Gaming with FME,” so we’re covering both of them. The first type of gaming; using FME to transform real-world data to formats understood by gaming engines like Unreal Engine or Roblox. Practically, this is a great way for businesses to explore their data in a virtual world. The second type of gaming; building your very own games with FME and using FME to run them. Over the last few years, Dmitri has built some mind-blowing games that have never been featured in a whole webinar before. Whether you’re a N00b to FME, or having been using it for years, you’re bound to level up your skills in this webinar.

1. Gaming with FME

2. Meet the Presenter(s)
Dmitri Bagh

3. Agenda
What we’re covering today.
● Gaming Engines
● Minecraft
● Browser games
● Other games
● Social event games

4. Our Mission
To help you maximize the value of data.

5. Our Mission
To help you maximize the value of data.
While making data
and jobs fun!

6. Why Gaming?

7. Practical Applications
of Gaming
Experience Your Data
By using a game like environment,
it allows you explore your data in
greater detail, fully immersed.
Being able to view your data this
way can ultimately improve
decision-making .

8. Building Games
with FME can
Grow Your Skills
What’s more, these games can provide
value for your organization in
unexpected ways; marketing at
conferences, tracking business flights,
and boosting customer engagement.
Gaming might look like a lot of fun but
the applications behind it are serious.

9. Let’s get started!

10. The first known
FME game.
August 2005

11. The first known FME game. August 2005
Nim (Bachet game)

12. Peter Segerstedt, Sweco. September 2005
FME Battleship

13. Popular Gaming Engines

14. How FME
Can Help
By transforming
real-world data to formats
understood by gaming
engines.

15. Transform
Any Data
● CAD
● GIS
● 2D
● 3D
● Orthos
● DEM
● And more

16. With FME You Can...
● Create or bring in, transform,
repair and validate geometries
● Set or change appearances
● Generate meshes
● Create geometry definitions
and instances
● Build named object hierarchies

17. FME
Workspaces
can be simple...
or complicated...
as required.

18. FME Supports...
Popular Geometry Formats
Popular Texture Formats
● FBX
● OBJ
● SketchUp
● Collada
● glTF (writer only)
● USDZ (FME 2021, writer only)
● Datasmith (writer only)
● JPEG
● PNG
● TGA is coming

19. Useful Transformers
● Triangulator
● MeshMerger
● AppearanceSetter
● SharedItemAdder
● SharedItemIDSetter
● GeometryPropertySetter
● GeometryCoercer
● GeometryPartExtractor
● Extruder

20. Example - GIS to Unreal
Video

21. Example - BIM to Unreal
Video by Alexandre Roy, Veremes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZbKf9HcqPk

22. Example - Raster to Unreal
Image courtesy of David Baldacchino, HOK
Video, Blooper

23. Cesium for Unreal. Coming March 30
Blog by Cesium:
Cesium for Unreal coming March 30

24. Unreal links
Your Data in Unreal: How to bring your data into real-time environments
Integrate Epic Games Unreal Datasmith Using FME
Preserving the History of Amache Using AR & Virtual Worlds

25. FME expands the limited set of
formats understood by Roblox

26. SketchUp to Roblox

27. Q&A

28. Minecraft

29. What is a Minecraft world?
For FME, it’s a regularly spaced point cloud!

30. What is a Minecraft world?
Workspace example. Easter Island

31. Examples. Geography and Natural processes
Volcano

32. Examples. Human-made objects
Gävle goat
Surrey, BC, Canada from a point cloud
Häme Castle, Hämeenlinna, Finland
The Temple of Athena, Paestum

33. Examples. Port Moody

34. Minecraft links
Mojang Minecraft | Data Integration for Gaming Environments
How to make Minecraft worlds
Geospatial and Minecraft - Why You Should Care
A year of crafting worlds with FME
More Minecraft resources

35. Q&A

36. Building Games
with FME

37. Browser Games. Examples
Play this game Play this game

38. ● User clicks the game link
● FME workspace generates new game layout and an HTML file
● Browser opens the HTML with the new game
● HTML buttons execute workspaces (next move or new game)
● Workspaces analyse the input and the board and generate new HTML for the next move
● Browser shows the board after the next move
The complexity of JavaScript required:
function HumanMove(color) {
window.open(" https://bluesky-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmedatastreaming/DmitriPublic/HumanThinking.fmw ?
COLORSELECTED="+color+"&FEATURETYPES=210204_f84e12cb_6345_42d6_bc38_e365973e4ae9", "_self");
}
Browser Games. How they work

39. Browser games. Lessons applied
Safe Software business trips

40. Blog:
How to Build a Virtual Conference Booth
Esri UC 2020 Virtual Booth
Browser Games. In 3D, too!

41. Other Games
The workspaces are yours!

42. Q&A

43. Event Games

44. FMEUC 2017 Virtual Reality Contest
● Every attendee got a Lizard VR Cardboard
● Clue stations were placed around the venue and posted on social media
● Clues were hidden in a 360 degree VR scene
● Each clue entered through a special form revealed a piece of a puzzle
● The complete puzzle gave attendees a prize
● An extra challenge gave even bigger prize

45. Lizard VR Cardboard and Clue Station

46. Clues inside VR

47. Assembling Puzzle

48. The final challenge. Steganography

49. FME Community Game
The Twelve Days of FME 2020

50. An event game from Sweco
Tweet by @ulfme

51. World Tour games
WT2014 Interactive quiz via email
WT2016 What3Words motto
WT2017 Think like a machine
WT2018 Fun with Flags
WT2019 Object Detection

52. What’s Coming - World Fair

53. Come one, come all from May 4 - 14! Discover tips & tricks, the
newest updates, and innovative ways to use FME.
FME World Fair 2021
safe.com/world-fair

54. Improve decision making and
engagement through games!
Whether you’re using FME to connect to gaming engines, or building
your own games with FME, you can guarantee fun and skill building.

55. FME User
Game

56. Thank You!
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