Blender Earth Modeler Add-on | 3D Google Earth (City/Terrain) inside Blender

#blender #googleearth
**** From Imagiscope ****

July 2024 - beta testing is done. Limited first release coming soon.

Thanks for all your interest in this add-on.
This preview shows the basic power of the platform...but... we're not done 😉. We'll keep posting updates and address the timing of the beta program many of you expressed interested in.
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New Earth Modeler for Blender! Integrate 3D models from anywhere in the world into Blender. Fast, one click modeling using Google Earth data. Get it from the source - Google Earth.

Set location and the model is imported directly into your scene.

**** NOTE *****
This is a pre-release preview of the Add-on. Stay tuned here (hint: subscribe) for details when they are available.

This project is currently in development and testing. Please feel free to contact us through the about page for information on contributing to this project.

Thanks,
Rob

Imagiscope Technology is the software developer of the Earth Modeler Add-on for Blender.

[jkn]

We truly don't deserve blender as a software. The gift that keeps on giving

[singaii]

As a 3D artist working in Blender for smart city production, this is purely mind blowing !

[oculicious]

big is an understatement, I've dreamt of this for almost 2 decades! Thinking back on all the projects throughout my career where a huge stressful chunk of that work could be done with a few clicks. OpenGIS itself was a godsend, but this is a "never-in-a-million-years" dream. So extremely excited, thank you for bringing this to the world!

[MyKnexus]

If you go down to street level (not street view) in Google Earth, the buildings and other objects start to look kind of surreal or dream-like. For a long time, I had been thinking that, if only we could access that 3D data, it would be possible to green screen a whole movie in this surreal GoogleEarth world. With camera tracking in Blender, this can now be done. Very cool!

[toniogm]

Absolutely impressive!!!! I'm looking forward to test it!!!! Thanks again, Rob, you're simply the ❤

[isaacholzwarth]

Years ago i imagined an open world driving game that would utilize Google maps and census data to be able to drive and explore anywhere in the world using generative terrain, meaning that you would program the game to build the environment on the fly, along with adding in people, building interiors, etc, allowing you to just go and explore an approximation of the entire world. That sort of thing would actually be possible now.

[stealth]

Honestly might be my first time watching your channel. Great content btw.
And this is absolutely amazing. This is a game changer for blender artists. Very well done by Google. And this is just the beginning of it.

[shotbyjkru]

I'm fascinated by the quality of the trees, cranes, billboards, etc. I use Google Earth Studio on a daily basis, and the level of detail you display is unparalleled to the original product. Take my money.

[matthewloynd]

I work as in an architecture firm and this is exactly what I have been looking for! We deal a lot with renderings and presenting our ideas to the clients and my sturggle is finding a good way to incorparate the design with the suraounding context. There have been many attempts to bring google images into blender but they are cumbersome and very technical. Or they simply don't work as there are many bugs (Because they are a bit complex). I would definitely be intersted in using this in every project! Great Work!

[pekkariihonen]

The all important mention of "The final render will include all of Google's legal copyright attributions" near the end.
This was the thing I wanted to hear. Excellent! Thank you!

[mrbeanns]

Truly spectacular. Congratulations, this is very impressive.
I can't wait to be able to try it

[aronkvh]

This is incredible! I can imagine lots of possibilities when mixing this with the OpenStreetMap plugin. Can't wait to test it

[davidrichard]

I LOVE IT! ❤ As part of my job (3D urban modeler), I'll need this add-on right away. I hope it will be available for download soon. Bravo for the great job.

[heveycreations]

Amazing ! Cant wait for this addon to come out to the public !

[dinky]

As a London bus driver I can confirm that whenever traffic is that light it is standard practice to use the wrong side of the road. Thanks for adding that detail.

[michaelvollrath]

Really looking forward to this release, it's been something myself and colleagues have been interested in for years and there were some hacky or copyright infringing solutions that have come and gone over time but the fact that there is actually a partnership between Cesium & Google for this data set is critical. Thanks for all your work in this!

I see leveraging this or Cesium in Unreal with google earth tiles as overall background filler, and then having a high detailed pointcloud of the local site context, and then the 3D model of the actual architecture project being highly beneficial for AEC sector. (many other use cases as well of course)

[zixea]

WOAAAH this is great for “generating” terrain if you want it to be as realistic as possible.

[michaelsmusicinstruments]

After height maps, terrain party, Gis addon, and some other build addons since 2.78, this will be the next level.
It looks very awsome, I can't wait to try it out.
I hope it will be as great as it looks, great job guys, go Blender community!!!! 🧡🧡🧡

[PrinceWesterburg]

A fine artist friend once told me "To Americans, water is always blue" - He wasn't wrong. The Thames is a greeny-brown colour.
Great video, as someone who's done a dozen Earth fly-ins for clients over the last nearly 30 years, this is a complete game changer!

[TrevorNew]

Can't wait for this, I have a project I just started and I would love to try this out. Amazing work, thank you for making this!!!