paulhansen Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Hi guys. Is there a plugin to import Google Earth 3d buildings (entire city) into 3ds Max 2016? I know 3DRipperDX can do that, but only with older versions of max. //Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 I looked into this a few weeks ago, I found some plugins that I thought would work but in the end they produced nothing useful. Google has reconfigured GM so that you can no longer pull out geometry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulhansen Posted September 29, 2015 Author Share Posted September 29, 2015 dammit. Well, thanks for your reply Devin, I appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchrender Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 depending on what your looking for . Link attached has a list of cities and sites extracted. Look through them. http://make2d.blogspot.ie/2011/10/request-model.html?showComment=1342709283050#c3766181945002294859 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dombrowski Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 I haven't tried it myself, but I read about someone (perhaps in that other thread) who used the Autodesk ReCap workflow with GE, taking multiple screenshots and processing them with ReCap to recreate the geometry. Not ideal, but better than modeling it all yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulhansen Posted October 1, 2015 Author Share Posted October 1, 2015 I haven't tried it myself, but I read about someone (perhaps in that other thread) who used the Autodesk ReCap workflow with GE, taking multiple screenshots and processing them with ReCap to recreate the geometry. Not ideal, but better than modeling it all yourself? Interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 depending on what your looking for . Link attached has a list of cities and sites extracted. Look through them. http://make2d.blogspot.ie/2011/10/request-model.html?showComment=1342709283050#c3766181945002294859 So how is that guy so able to rip GE models? What's he got that we don't got? Has anyone here opened his rips? They seem to be in Rhino format and I don't have Rhino since v1. There are some shareware converters for not much cash, might try one of those. Or Moi, that's supposed to be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dombrowski Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 The thread is from 2011-2012, before Google had their new fancy point cloud geometry. I think they now use a newer version of DX9 which is not supported by the ripping software. Google Earth 6.2 and 3D Ripper 1.8 are reported to work, but that'll be the older style of 3d buildings. I requested a rip from him a few years ago and it came in pretty well, but I only needed grey background buildings for context. I don't think it was textured. Another option that I've only started investigating is using lidar scans that are sometimes supplied by municipal GIS departments. I've gotten as far as getting a scan imported into ReCap, but have not had time to merge one with an aerial texture or bring it into 3ds Max. I'm guessing this is what Google is doing now with the new models they have, though I suspect there's a bit more to it than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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