Sketchup+live maps axos
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Hello everybody,
Been working with skp for about 4 years but here's a first: i'd like to add a model in a "maps.live" axonometric photo. Any advice on the most painless way to achieve this?$
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The Birds Eye View photos from live.com are not axonometric. The only way I've got a match to work is to tweak, tweak and tweak some more with photomatch. What will help greatly is if you got 3D CAD data of the surrounding area so that you have as much reference data as possible. And the end points of the perspective lines ends up far outside the photo area with the horizon very high. Allot of zooming in and out.
Sorry that I got no pain free solution. I hope you post back if you find a good workflow for this.
I'm not happy with SU's abilities to match existing models with photos. It's be much better if we could pick points from the SU model and then pick points from the photo and have SU calculate it based on a number of reference points. -
thanks,
yes photomatch was driving me nuts, i probably need to make an effore learning it.
Finally, i simply tweaked it with the image as watermark and doing some photoshopping...not very elegant but it worked, more or less.thanks again
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what I started doing is to import the image as an overlay watermark (styles window), make it semi transparent and then roughly match the view manually by changing the model position and playing arround with the camera lense (take the zoom tool and type in the width of the lense, 35mm for example).
may not be very precise. but it works most of the time and is considerably quicker and less frustrating@thomthom said:
It's be much better if we could pick points from the SU model and then pick points from the photo and have SU calculate it based on a number of reference points.
that would be an awesome way to photomatch an existing model. lets hope Google listens...
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3DS Max has that feature: http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/compositing/arch/
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