Plugin for importing large GE terrain areas into Sketchup?
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I second!
It is almost painful that one needs to jump hoops to use GE with Sketchup. I use pretty good product with AutoCAD that works fine for the purpose intended (plex.earth tools from plexscape.com), so it should be expected that after purchasing SU8 Pro and GE Pro you should have tolerable work-flow. Even C4D has plugin.
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@plex said:
I second!
It is almost painful that one needs to jump hoops to use GE with Sketchup. I use pretty good product with AutoCAD that works fine for the purpose intended (plex.earth tools from plexscape.com), so it should be expected that after purchasing SU8 Pro and GE Pro you should have tolerable work-flow. Even C4D has plugin.
being able to select a large area, and Sketchup automatically importing several pieces and mounting the puzzle should be a must. If possible, also select areas of "focus", so in those areas Sketchup will import smaller, higher res pieces. If possible, already drapping the most detailed pieces over the larger, less detailed ones, and joining the higher detailed terrains (more triangles) with the less detailed ones (less triangles), in the borders only, of course...
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Im still sweating here... had to import like a hundred different pieces from GoogleEarth... and now I am having to CUT the pieces (because several of them overlap in some place or other). This is terrible... I use Zorro to cut the pieces but it is IMMENSE work!
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I also miss a more advance plugin when it comes to grabbing terrain!
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These are just ideas that came to mind as I read the thread:
I had thought that either TIG, or thomthom, or possibly Pixero had dealt with this issue and had come up with a "stitcher" of some sort? And it seems that maybe "brookefox" had discussed the same issue?
I did do a search in Plugins Index. Maybe my keywords weren't right. -
actually, after my requests, some interesting plugins were created that really helped me with my project. Too bad the threads arent linked...
but check here
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=40627&hilit=terrain+meshhere are SdMitch plugins... check the Terrain Tools plugin, which is basically his two terrain plugins plus an extra function.
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There you go. I did not think of using "terrain" an obvious keyword variable.
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There was an application called Google Map Buddy which would automatically stitch together GE files to allow very high resolution images to be created from Google Earth. You would however have to import them and project them onto the terrain manually. Unfortunately Google took exception to it and made the software writer take it down (http://www.augmentedrealitysoftware.co.uk/gmb.html). It might still be available if you (ironically!) do a Google search though.
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If any plugin wizard is bored without nothing to do, importing really large terrain areas (or automatically importing several small detailed areas) is a feature still missing on Sketchup.
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I just added a feature in Skelion plugin to add large terrain mesh. It uses NASA’s SRTM Elevation data. The bad news are that it is a pro feature and there is no good interpolation, so in some areas like Tibet you can appreciate the errors.
No image terrain imported.In the image you can see maximum area of SketchUp and the mesh exported with Skelion.
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