Photo match & terrain match ?

[eidam655]

hello,

i know, that sketchup is able to download terrain from google earth, and i can adjust my building onto it afterwards. i also know how to place my model into a photo using photomatch. but is there any chance of combining these two together? i would like to place my building onto a photo, correctly oriented and aligned with real-world North, so i get realistic Sun shadows.

any tips and info is highly appreciated.

[brodie]

I may be misunderstanding, but is sounds like you could just do a regular photomatch and then go to Window -> Model Info -> Location and set your location and North angle.

-Brodie

[srx]

For now the best what you can do is to use "water mark technique". In style editor place you background image as watermark...and
then make manual match with it.
For RUBY masters: WE NEED NEW PHOTO MATCH PLUGIN which works like old morfing software - by picking the same points in model and photographed space.

[thomthom]

@srx said:

For RUBY masters: WE NEED NEW PHOTO MATCH PLUGIN which works like old morfing software - by picking the same points in model and photographed space.

+1!

If I knew the maths I'd do it. But it'd far beyond me. But it's the type of photo matching I've always wanted SU to have. Like what Bonzai, 3dsMax and such have - they make much more sense than endlessly twiddling some handles.

[thomthom]

@eidam655 said:

hello,i know, that sketchup is able to download terrain from google earth, and i can adjust my building onto it afterwards. i also know how to place my model into a photo using photomatch. but is there any chance of combining these two together?

Combine? But they are not related...
When you PhotoMatch a model you only modify the camera - not the model location...

If you have the Google Earth terrain and placed your model in the correct position to it, then there is nothing stopping you from setting up a photomatch scene.

[eidam655]

thanks Brodie, taking the location from GEarth and adjusting the North did the trick for now. also i now realize that the same could be achieved if i just rotated the imported google earth terrain snapshot.

thomthom: i first had the building done, then i wanted to photomatch it. hence (combined with my rather newbie skills in SU) when i did the photomatching, i moved and rotated my house around (i wanted it to fit in two pictures).

thanks for the replies