Google Earth Image into Max

[clarkeme]

I have created a proposal for a new airport. The client now wants it to be superimposed onto a GE image in max. Is there any fancy way to do this? or just using bitmap mapping?

[incuspro]

i dont know much,anyone here?

[Sketchrender]

Well there is the licence issue of course.

GE is pretty good, take a good screen shot, and paste in to Photoshop, if the saved image is not good enough.

Bing maps have a birds eye view which is better, sometimes you have to compair the two.

The plan view in Bing is sometimes out of date compaired to the birds eye view so whatch that.

 

phil

[Ernest Burden III]

SketchUp may be able to open a GooogleEarth location and then convert it to another format. I haven't tried that, but there is a .kmz format to deal with GE files. I know you can use SU to create a GE building which can be added to GE.

 

Remember that the imagery used in GE is bought, it can often be found free in GIS data. It just takes a lot of searching and file converting. The land shapes (topo) can be extracted from GIS files, as well.

[clarkeme]

Thanks all

 

Managed to solve this one. Am using a licensed GE Pro so no issue there. Just used the capture to get a 4800/3825 image. Then used UVW maps to get it onto a surface.

 

Many thanks again

[Chad Warner]

Sketchup has a GE import feature. Basically you go into Google Earth to the extents of what you want, then open up Sketchup, click on the "get from GE" button, and it will import a mesh with a grayscale image on it. Make sure to save the image you want out of google earth (in color and at a good resolution). Then export the mesh out of Sketchup, and replace the image in Max.

 

AutoCad architecture 2010 also has a GE import feature, somewhere there's a lisp file that will do it for earlier versions as well.