Creating models for GoogleEarth 3dBuildingLayer

Trantor · #1 Posted **Jun 15, 2009, 7:58 PM**

Hi there... just want to share my progress at creating buildings for Porto Alegre and Novo Hamburgo... I am creating them as low poly buildings, fully textured from photos, following the GoogleEarth/3DWarehouse directives. It takes a while for them to be reviewed by Google and included at GoogleEarth, but I hope they will soon be approved.

So far, Ive created 4 buildings for Porto Alegre. (started creating them last wednesday). Hope that I will be able to create a few more till the end of the week.

Ipiranga Tower

Receita Federal building

IPASE (Social Welfare Institute) and Public Market

Flamesrule · #2 Posted **Jun 16, 2009, 1:15 AM**

I can't do that because because I wouldn't put all that detail in one REAL building........ Anyway it looks great!Lets hope thwy aprove soon!

Trantor · #3 Posted **Jun 16, 2009, 2:25 PM**

my fifth building, Espaço CIEE, located at 3rd Perimetral Avenue, Porto Alegre. You can two of my other buildings (Mercado Publico and IPASE) at the distance, a few km away, in the right.

and here a photo of 3rd Perimetral Avenue, looking north (cant see downtown in this shot)

Flamesrule · #4 Posted **Jun 16, 2009, 4:37 PM**

That looks great!I love the buildings on the avanue!I'm keeping a close eye on this.Did your buildings in the last picture get aproved yet?

Trantor · #5 Posted **Jun 16, 2009, 6:28 PM**

not yet. Ive heard it takes like 2-4 weeks for Google to review the buildings and include them on GE

bbeliko · #6 Posted **Jun 16, 2009, 6:37 PM**

Trantor you are too good at this, i wish i could do half of what you do with Sketchup

Austin55 · #7 Posted **Jun 16, 2009, 6:41 PM**

Yeah, it does take about that long and the usually deny you for the stupidest thing. But those are excellent, there just as good as most of the featured modelers. Good luck!

Trantor · #8 Posted **Jun 16, 2009, 7:44 PM**

@Austin: MY guess is that its hard to model for US cities, where there is already tons of featured modellers... so they will deny your model because they are certain somebody else will make the model.

but for Brazil? Ive seen some TRULY crap models featured on GoogleEarth. It seems Google´s standarts for models is set much lower when it comes to Brazil. They are eager FOR ANY MODEL AT ALL, no matter how crappy it is.

Look at the above shot of Porto Alegre. You can count the modelled buildings in one hand.

And here a shot of Porto Alegre

just too much work to do for them to be denying models for stupid reasons

Flamesrule · #9 Posted **Jun 16, 2009, 8:10 PM**

I love that shot of Port Alegre! Like Bbeliko said you are too god for this!

Trantor · #10 Posted **Jun 16, 2009, 8:55 PM**

which shot of Porto Alegre? The first or the 2nd?

Trantor · #11 Posted **Jun 22, 2009, 6:42 PM**

finished Antares Center

and Edificio Delapieve

btw, two of my buildings were already approved for GE... IPASE and Ipiranga! Just surf through Porto Alegre at GoogleEarth and you will see them...

Trantor · #12 Posted **Jun 23, 2009, 5:51 AM**

just finished

IGUATEMI CORPORATE

out of curiosity, real photos of the above buildings

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Trantor · #13 Posted **Jun 23, 2009, 7:39 PM**

new model, Borges 2233

Trantor · #14 Posted **Jun 24, 2009, 2:50 PM**

and another one, Banrisul HQ

Patrick · #15 Posted **Jun 29, 2009, 2:59 AM**

Nice!!! Man I miss those days, modeling for google earth, but the approval process has gotten so ridiculous that I stopped, but again, really nice models!!!

Trantor · #16 Posted **Jun 29, 2009, 12:04 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patrick

but the approval process has gotten so ridiculous that I stopped

please... ellaborate. In what sense it got ridiculous? Too long a wait for the review? They approve bad stuff? Lack of consistency?

Aleks · #17 Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 7:32 PM**

I think it's time for the Google buildings to go global. We already have like every major city in the US. We need other cities from China, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, Russia, everywhere!

Nice models btw, I started to make a 3D model of Seattle but like a month after I starter they uploaded every building in the city [except for the ones under construction], so I just quit.