<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr"><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px"></div><div><!--StartFragment--><div>Hello Even,</div><div><br></div>Thank you for your suggestion, I have looked at ogr/ogrpgeogeometry.cpp file and I would like to point out the challenges that I am facing:<div><br></div><div>1. As far as I could understand it, the texture information has not been passed to the function which creates OGR representation from multipatch.</div><div><br></div><div>2. OGRrepresentation doesn't include a place to write images to, so that would need to be extended.</div><div><br></div><div>I would welcome and appreciate some guidance regarding what could be changed to make it work. Also, I would like to mention that we are happy to contribute any improvements back.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Sameer Sheikh</div></div><br><div></div><br><br><div data-anchor="reply-title">On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 07:05 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com> wrote:</div><blockquote><div>Sameer,<br><br><blockquote>I am using GDAL (Java binding) API in my application to read from file<br>geodatabase. I am trying to read multipatch geometry and textures of a<br>Building. I could read features, Geometry, relationship information etc.<br>from file geodatabase, but unable to read multipatch textures. Could<br>anybody suggest me approach to read textures from filegeodatabase?</blockquote><br><br>There's no way with OGR currently. You should be able to get the vertex <br>information from the multipatch, but textures are ignored for now. It's not <br>directly obvious however how they could be modelled in OGR.<br><br>If you're also a C/C++ programmer, you could look at the Extended Shapefile <br>specification provided with the FileGDB SDK, and hack into <br>ogr/ogrpgeogeometry.cpp to enhance the multipatch decoder to decode textures.<br><br>Even<br><br>-- <br>Spatialys - Geospatial professional services<br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.spatialys.com">http://www.spatialys.com</a></div></blockquote></div></body></html>