Google Maps 3D: Data into Blender

UPDATE - July 2024 - I can confirm this is working with:
Blender 4.1.1
RenderDoc 1.31
MapsModelImporter 0.7.0
In order to enable 'Inject into Process' in newer versions of RenderDoc you need to go into:
Tools - Settings - General - 'Enable process injection'
and restart the app.
In this video I show you how to extract 3D data from Google Maps using RenderDoc and the amazing MapsModelsImporter by Élie Michel. Please consider donating on his Github page if you find this process useful:
github.com/eliemichel/MapsMod...
This is the text that you need to add to the Chrome shortcut 'target' field to run it in debug mode (delete the existing contents beforehand):
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0 && START "" ^"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe^" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog --disable_direct_composition=1"
or
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0 && START "" ^"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe^" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog --disable_direct_composition=1"
If your Chrome is installed in a different location to the one above you may need to go in and change parts of this text.
You can download the MapsModelmporter addon here:
github.com/eliemichel/MapsMod...
You can download RenderDoc here:
renderdoc.org/
You can see a tutorial on cleaning up the mesh here:
• Google Maps 3D: Photog...
You can see Elie’s original video here:
• Importing Actual 3D Mo...
You can download Blender here:
www.blender.org/download/
Donate to Élie here:
github.com/eliemichel/MapsMod...
You can see how to use Blender GIS here:
• Blender GIS
Thanks also to Bjørn Terje Hansebråten who recommended this process to me in the Blender GIS comments.

[@Nicko16]

UPDATE - July 2024 - I can confirm this is working with: Blender 4.1.1 RenderDoc 1.31 MapsModelImporter 0.7.0 Elie Michel has instructions on Github: github.com/eliemichel/MapsModelsImporter

[@theresa6895]

I tried everything, but it's still give me error. I am sure there is something wrong during the capuring process. I tried to import a samples file, and it works perfectly fine. Is the a way you can help me with it?

[@sr.basilisc5906]

why do you pin this if you know your info is wrong, it does not work and contradicts the github instructions. You made me waste time.

[@jannisben5870]

In newer Versions (>1.13) you have to enable File-> "Inject into Process" by going to Tools-> Seeings-> General "Enable process Injection" (at the bottom)

[@knight2255]

Are you using Maps Models Importer 0.4.0 with RenderDoc 1.14?

[@jannisben5870]

@@knight2255 exactly

[@techtricks4569]

Thank you!

[@are4ever918]

A lot of thanks

[@Cin3DyUEFNdeveloper]

Thanks a lot man! You help me and many other out.

[@notsure1969]

This is so incredible it feels illegal.

[@CaseyConnor]

@@pushthedesign AFAIK, violating TOS is not illegal (in the US). Using that data to in turn infringe on copyright would be against the law.

[@CaseyConnor]

@@pushthedesign I don't doubt that they have a copyright on the data, but I'm allowed (legally, if not in accordance with TOS) to screenshot whatever copyrighted material I want on the web and do stuff on my computer with it as I please. If I publish/distribute it in a non-fair-use manner, then I'm violating the law (possibly). It may violate Google/Chrome's TOS to intercept the Chrome-downloaded 3D model in this way, but that action alone isn't illegal. (Again, AFAIK.)

[@madcatlady]

@@pushthedesign yes I read that even using photogrammetry, I have for personal use used stuff like 3Dzephr and Meshroom and Google Earth and Streetview images to create pointclouds of local buildings, but the TOS is pretty clear, I have done it mostly just as a guide for scale and dimensions if I want to try and model something and texture with my own photographs, note to others, any photogrammetry depends entirely on the terms of the images used ie photographer's permission, you could use it to capture in game scenery too via screenshots and just as illegal, intercepting openGL data like RenderDoc does adds another layer of illegality to that even as would violate the use of the software you are capturing from on top of using images.

[@daniel4647]

It is. There used to be a program that would copy Google Earth maps to your local harddrive, not even the 3D stuff, just the street maps and satellite images. And Google shut it down, said it was because the data on Google Earth is not actually theirs, that they source it from various outside sources which they rent it from. So it's kind of understandable that they don't want to lose trust with their sources, even though I think it's ridiculous that someone can copyright and sell an image of my house.

[@JamesArndt]

I think it might be. It's basically ripping content from proprietary sources. Even if you don't use it commercially it still might be illegal. Think of ripping music that is copyrighted. You might not have any commercial intention of selling that music and only enjoying it for personal use...but you've still stolen the content.

[@simondahl9474]

Thank you! Been fighting with this a while now. Your simple example/explanation of changing the executable has saved me. Brilliant

[@AlexKongMX]

For those who can't get Chrome to pop the PID window, you have to close Chrome and end all the chrome tasks in your task manager, THEN run the shortcut. Also, DO NOT open Chrome, close the PID window and THEN inject, do it like he does, inject with the PID window open and the press OK

[@josedanielfernandez2318]

Thanks

[@HornySkater]

love you bro. saved me

[@MonarchGuy974]

Quick and to the point. The way tutorials should be! Thanks a bunch!

[@ZwergDesign]

I haven't tried it yet, but I just wanted to add that this tutorial is perfect. Straight to the point, high quality and good explanation. Thanks!

[@morgang7649]

you have one of the best tutorial flows and voices out there - cheers mate

[@milanhilferink4051]

this is like the 4th tutorial I watch, and youre the first person who actually undestand that explaining something doesnt mean leaving important steps out and let me figure it out. really couldve saved me some rage

[@mmcganimetic]

すごすぎます！！！ さっそく試してみます！！！

[@TheMinecraftNerd2014]

Imagine how much easier it will be to recreate real-life locations in games like BeamNG. Thanks for making this tutorial!

[@marcd7332]

This works more like a background than something you could drive on, textures are very low resolution and the meshes are awful, unfortunately.

[@drive_with_pov]

GTA 6 Developers should do this 😂

[@jumps1156]

@@drive_with_pov lol yess

[@dcinput7645]

@@marcd7332 maybe for strategy games, like 3d animation of battle, that happends in some way regardless of your commands. Like europa universalis, crusader Kings, europa universalis. If these maps doesn't take much memory, you could do real 3d animations for large amount of points of map.

[@michirex8766]

Overgrowth

[@weeliano]

Fantastic! Finally got it to work. Initially I couldn't get the PID number window to pop up. After reading the trouble shooting guide by Élie, I realized I have other instances of Google chrome on. After turning them off in Task manager, I got it to work. This is a great tool to extract geo data!

[@MonarchGuy974]

Tip: If you're using 2 or more monitors Chrome and RenderDoc need to be in the same monitor.

[@kidlattahimik9933]

thanks!

[@technoendo]

This is a great tutorial and a new method for making terrain I haven't seen before, thank you!

[@stillnotclickedyt]

That tutorial was top class it's been years since I used any of this, but I still understood everything instantly. Thanks for making it short and to the point.

[@adam-kt7dx]

i think it doesnt work anymore :( I´m trying but it just reloades and you have to constantly inject.

[@TrevRich]

This is a game changer.... thanks so much..... infinite amount of racetracks coming up....

[@h20xyg3n]

Thanks for this dude, got it working in about an hour :) Very pleased with the results!

[@ChewTheWires]

I'm about to drop a meteor on my home city Haha :D, nice tutorial, a fine addition to my collection

[@jeffspinner6579]

Is the meteor the size of a virus?

[@jeffspinner6579]

Have you noticed the resolution you get from this process is very low res/low poly? A family member assigned my a design job for her backyard, so I used this thinking, voila, easy peasy, barely an inconvenience, and nah ah, it's so low poly, I can use it, but for measurement only. If only we had access to the real data like the corps and military does. Dare to dream to use data for non-hostile purposes. Can't have that.

[@KKovacsUSN]

Get the google earth data for crater lake and mix them together, lol.

[@jeffspinner6579]

@@KKovacsUSN, I tried the google earth data rip, and the resolution is really bad, at least for my backyard previz for my families redesign...maybe REALLY big wouldn't be noticeable. If only we could get the stuff the military uses, now I can make art with that!

[@FBlockLeymann]

@@jeffspinner6579 The closer you zoom in, the higher the quality it will be. It extracts the data that Chrome uses too. The data logicaly gets lower res to save performance when zoomed out further.

[@tumimbasa1705]

I'm a architecture student doing 3D Archviz with blender. Man this is extremely helpful. God bless you man really

[@aidanmandy]

Can you help me with a project please. I have an image of a piece of land that I need to transform. I can send you the image

[@sendilkumarj]

Great short tutorial I ever seen, thanks a ton.🎉

[@LennyTrees]

I watch this video three times a year. Works every time

[@jtasarkan7088]

Awesome stuff. I can find many uses for this addon. Seems more detailed than the mesh you get with GIS too. 👍🏻

[@amjviz8146]

But much more harder than GIS :(((

[@famesaro65]

And Boom, the magic happened. direct to the point thank you sir

[@star_king4855]

Can you please help me? every time I open the google chrome it says "Windows cannot find "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application". Make sure you type the name correctly, and then try again", what am I supposed to do?

[@Windowlicker3333]

@@star_king4855 your chrome was installed in a different file

[@Tri-Technology]

Nice Tutorial! I like your style and speed to explain all that.

[@microsagar2130]

Brother, I wanna only say... I love you... srsly... I have been working for one of my projects for about 3 month in which I want a 3d model of google earth real data but unfortunately... there is no such tutorial on youtube which work perfectly.... either there was some texturing problem or some modeling problem... But now because of you, I have finally got the best process complete my project otherwise I had given up...... Thanks a lot, buddy thank you very very very much..... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@sakimarai]

it worked!! MapsModeImporter 0.5 + RenderDoc 1.19 + Blender 3.4. Thanks a lot!

[@zoybean]

Is the topology/textures better by using those, compared to older versions of any such software?

[@facundotaborda816]

How if RD doesnt allow for inject? Thanks in advance

[@Yolwoocle]

I'm gonna import my home town into Unity have a little virtual walk in there, since I really miss it :') And then I'll blow it up. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@rajivpokharel88]

lmao....i was thinking exactly the same....#quarantine_sad_life

[@Yolwoocle]

@@rajivpokharel88 yyeah, man... at least it gives more time to learn stuff like that!

[@sdach3sach167]

How did you do that?

[@Yolwoocle]

@@sdach3sach167 just import the model into unity and then add a 1st person character controller.

[@sprinklenuts4593]

I mean, cant u just use google maps

[@SamA-hw4ld]

Quick n straight to the point. Thank you for that.

[@3DPDK]

Done, done, and done! This is VERY cool! Salute to Élie Michel

[@Deffcolony]

Someone has to make grand theft auto google maps

[@MyRagingMonkey]

I already have :)

[@tornado9419]

yes

[@glorymanheretosleep]

Well first would have to be able to make it work on blender...

[@zaydabbas1609]

@@MyRagingMonkey what game did you use to import the map?

[@liambmn]

@@MyRagingMonkey where?

[@JOELwindows7]

This is your daily dose of Recommendation Import Google map 3D into blender. Cool and good. Amazing Awesome!!! Thancc

[@mox.kartal]

Amazing tutorial. Holy grail for us 3D buffs.

[@thedrbat9572]

This is the first tutorial I have understood mostly because it's also THE ONLY TUTORIAL IVE FOUND IN ENGLISH!! Thanks for this though Edit: also if you have trouble at the shortcut part, go to program files and find the Google folder copy and paste that into programfiles x86

[@mmarcus897]

Now this is how tutorials should be made. Thank you sir!

[@Alien-tj6ij]

Хороший аддон! Использовал в 3d презентации...

[@ALARICFILMS]

Great Contribution Man! Thanks! 👌🏻🎬🔥

[@cre8iveThings]

Came here for the scale issue, left with Inject into Process answer as well. Thanks!

[@Alexsp228]

Just an FYI, I had an issue whereby I couldn't capture using RenderDoc - it was because I had hardware acceleration turned OFF in Chrome, hope this helps!

[@Tutterzoid]

Awesomeness :) I'm sure most of us would be quiet happy if this video took 7 minutes .. what's the rush :) Thanks for sharing this :)

[@sebasfavaron]

Watch it in 0.5x haha

[@DereC519]

very useful i had no idea it was this easy

[@bunnybreaker]

This is awesome. Thanks so much. For anyone following in 2022, I didn't want to use Chrome for this, but successfully used Vivaldi.

[@charliegregorio2392]

Hi Nicko16, I was able to capture and save a map after following your video tutorial. But when I opened the saved .rdc file in Blender 2.8.3 there was an error message that I was using Google Earth instead of Maps etc. Si I tried to open Google Map after the command shortcut to follow the message and navigate to a map location. However, when I open RenderDoc, the Chrome PID Tab to display the "Capture Frames Immediately" is no longer shown in the Interface. Instead a "Launch Application Program" Tab appears where an Executable Path, Working Directory, Command-Line Arguments with an empty fill-in box is presented. How do you input data on those blanks so I can capture what is shown in the Map? Better yet, how do you get the Capture Frames to show in RenderDoc?

[@Junglejuz]

Great video. Thanks for sharing. Is there any way of increasing the distance and resolution of the capture?

[@sircher943]

Thank you, I've been searching for something like this for 2 years. Photogrammetry worked too but it took long time to get the mesh, I also found a similiar method to this but it was a lot harder.

[@uzairsiddiq8895]

Can you share the different method ?? kindly mail it to me if possible [e-mail]

[@star_king4855]

Can you please help me? every time I open the google chrome it says "Windows cannot find "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application". Make sure you type the name correctly, and then try again", what am I supposed to do?

[@yyyuyu-je9mo]

@@star_king4855 use the path in the "start in" box rather than the one u typed in "c:\program files etc..."

[@61tree_VR_Gliding]

Thank you for this video, only one I've watched that actually worked.

[@fige]

Hi nicko16. great video. And thank you Elie for making such a great tool. Could you give us a quick tutorial on how to best georeference an .rdc file over the GIS basemap? In your example at 3.35 it seems like it placed the object in the right location and all you had to do was scale it. I keep having to scale and skew the model to fit the basemap. Is there an easier way? (georference the .rdc perhaps?) thanks in advance.

[@timothykwok5070]

Hey Nicko, is there any 3rd party SDKs/methods that will allow users to import road names/buildings? Even creating your own annotations/texts to label specific buildings/roads will be incredibly useful. I tried using Blend4Web to do so but realised that it only supports up to Blender 2.79.

[@pierreprevost3996]

This is so cool, works fine. Thanks for that!!

[@user-yk2dc6yr7q]

This is absolutely revolutionary

[@asem452]

if you are getting "invalid rdc capture" error while importing the .rdc to blender I believe it's a problem of not matching versions of blender and renderdoc I had this problem at first but after changing render doc version it worked fine. I am using blender 2.82 and renderdoc 1.6 the Maps models importer I am using is 0.3.5 (didn't have to change it)

[@DanceOfJesus]

Holy shit thank you so much it worked!!!

[@DanceOfJesus]

Update: It only worked once and then back to the error...

[@asem452]

@@DanceOfJesus you are welcome! actually, I've used it only four times and all the trials went well, but I am not using it any more at the meantime.

[@DanceOfJesus]

@@asem452 I'm not sure, but i think that before you inject readerdoc, you need to wait like 30 seconds for google to open a non responding window. Then you inject and click ok. And then to import in blender, you have to have a completely empty scene, and most of the time itvwill import without errors

[@Spiritwrl]

I'm not getting an error on mine, just when I import my .rdc, nothing happens. Like nothing at all happens.

[@millennialzz]

This channel is underrated

[@TommyLikeTom]

Excellent video, immediate subscription, added to favorites, thank you. I hope that I have committed these steps to memory and that they work in the future, LOL. This used to be so easy with sketchup but google went and locked everything down

[@eztutor823]

Dude...thanx For figuring this stuff out for us man, Really appreciate!!!! I wonder how long it wil be before google disables this

[@subarnalamsal2303]

Exactly what I need to learn during this quarantine period.

[@uaipados6668]

Very good

[@j9r6]

Thx for the really detailed explanation

[@marshymoo7888]

Works with Blender 3.1.0, RenderDoc v1.19, and MapsModelsImporter v0.5.0! Was getting errors with a newer version of Blender. This feels like cybercrime, I love it.

[@nickpoulsen9105]

Hi Nicko . . The Level of Detail you achieve with this technique is amazing! When I ran this workflow, I didn't achieve anywhere near yours. Could perhaps do a tutorial on this matter . . . or drop some info in the comments. Many thanks for this!

[@Miku-uw2sl]

Thank you for making this incredibly helpful tutorial. I have 2 questions: 1. What is the best way of doing large scale areas while still having good quality models and textures? 2. Is there any way to accurately geo-reference the capture to specific co-ordinates?

[@13SummerLane]

@Abbe Ilias Engers do you have a link ?? where can I find this ?

[@nicolasmilet2451]

Same question, will be so good !

[@thodorisefstathiou6894]

blender-osm

[@andreybushev3020]

@@thodorisefstathiou6894 osm is worse than google tho

[@avfx111]

@@andreybushev3020 osm is autogenerated, google earth is actual satellite data, but osm consumes way less polygons than earth, but you would need to get a workaround for textures

[@pacman2k1]

great! i was looking for that kind of workaround!!! :)

[@SledgeNE]

It'S very incredible what Blender can do today.

[@chazz1515]

My renderdoc seems not to want to successfully inject itself into chrome no matter what. I have chrome opening with the pip window and have renderdoc picking up the process, and i have to input a new number and hit ok about 3 or 4 separate times before it loads into chrome, but once chrome opens there is no renderdoc console info in the top left nor is there the option to capture in renderdoc (it is greyed out). I tried downgrading my chrome version and that's not changing anything, and the earlier renderdoc version (tried 1.9) seems to not want to open at all. Anyone else having an issue like this?

[@gknight6625]

same

[@robyone7729]

wow, amazing! with your help i recreated a small town in flight simulator 2020!

[@davidfishlock1968]

Do you wanna try portland bill lighthouse next and share it, I tried using this hard for me to follow I want only the light house but it also captures the surrounding area and have no idea how to just cut out the lighthouse to place in micrsoft 2020, maybe you c0uld do a video how you did it

[@robyone7729]

@Clutchy Gaming sorry I'm really not good with English and video tutorial. But you can start from this video and after you can use this tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5m4qnyQrrGYm9k But is near impossible to have just a building, or object. I'm sorry

[@benjaminwilliams2359]

Can you help me do something like that?

[@pavelfrumert5077]

Thanks for the tutorial. Much more better than the other workflow seen in other videos - manually rotate view in google earth, video-screening it and then use photogrammetry software like Zephyre.

[@abdullahgun]

can you get good results with doing photogrammetry from a video file? I always work with photos and it is such a time consuming work

[@heiro5]

I've been trying to make this plug in work for a while now, and I simply couldn't get a capture. Because of the layout of keys and who knows what else. my laptop simply wouldn't capture when I tried to time the Capture Screen buttons and wiggle the screenview at the same time. Your suggestion, which was new to me, of selecting the Immediate Capture option in RenderDoc absolutely sorted that out, got me a viable capture, and now the MMI plugin has imported it to Blender apparently without a hitch. Thanks so much!

[@star_king4855]

Can you please help me? every time I open the google chrome it says "Windows cannot find "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application". Make sure you type the name correctly, and then try again", what am I supposed to do?

[@heiro5]

@@star_king4855 I think for me Google Chrome was doing some weird thing where some of it was in Program Files but some of it was in Program Files (x86). I copied all the files over from one to the other and that did fix something at the beginning of my process...

[@jonathankemp6178]

This is very promising...but like many others, I have trouble making it work. RenderDoc 1.9 is installed, and I am able to inject it in the google GPU process using the PID from the dialog. (I do get the "Connection status : Established" message in RenderDoc) So far so good. But once this is done, Chrome opens a new page where it only says "Page unresponsive". If I click ok on the PID dialog, Chrome just open a new dialog, with a new PID, and the connection between RenderDoc and Chrome is lost... Anyone has any idea ?

[@sahejbhatia]

I can't get chrome to start in debug mode. Everytime I go back and click the box with the number it looses connection and does not show the black text on the top of the chrome window ..

[@guy_is_2_shy_to_talk_to_girl]

Heh got solution?

[@monkegames6133]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! Now I can drive around my city (Unity)

[@Bletzkarn]

It worked! Thank you. I had some issues with google chrome not showing the PID. Make sure chrome isn't running in the task manager (ctrl+alt+delete). I then had an issue with invalid RPC. Make sure this is on Blender 2.90 and is using RenderDoc 1.10 (Not the latest version!)

[@lewisbianco8951]

I can't get passed the process injection because Render Doc keeps disconnecting the pid every time I click ok to the pop up window. Has anyone found a work around this?

[@guy_is_2_shy_to_talk_to_girl]

Eh got the sol?

[@minigun4772]

Google version 0.96 added a debugging thing that makes it so you cant take models this way. too many people using this for illegal things.

[@cursecat111]

All fine up till at 2:18 press OK.Opens a google window but no de-bug stuff at top of google.Can't go any further.I"ve tried it 10 times.Same thing happens.HELP!!

[@gknight6625]

same

[@minigun4772]

Google version 0.96 added a debugging thing that makes it so you cant take models this way. too many people using this for illegal things.

[@hellodante2008]

The reason I use Blender

[@igorf243]

OMG! what a? Will definitely try it out! Thanks!

[@evanlecy8788]

This is amazing. Big next question, Is it possible to pull higher resolution textures? It seems like getting closer is an option, but is there a way to grab a large area and maximize resolution ?

[@bestsamh5624]

same problem

[@filippofranchini4338]

Just do the same exact process but instead of maps use google earth in chrome browser. Not perfect textures but things improve for sure.

[@laurencehodson_]

@@filippofranchini4338 Thank you so much :D

[@RetroPlus]

Wait like 7 years when google scans the earth with 12K cameras

[@jpmatar10]

Heyy Nicko, i have been following your tutorial to the letter, but after putting the PID, connection established, I go to chrome and press ok on the dialogue box, but nothing happens, chrome doesn't open in debug mode. Might you have an idea or fix for that?

[@yusufdutoit8484]

Hey Jean, check your directory folder because Nicko's chrome is in Program Files (x86), mine was in C:\Program Files so my text i tweaked a bit and looks something like this: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0 && START "" ^"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe^" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog" this worked for me.

[@yuhenglim2885]

Oh my god thank you so much for this!!

[@LittleSpot]

An awesome Tutorial: Blender 3.1.2, MapsModelImporter v0.5.0 rc1 and RenderDoc v1.20 worked perfectly for me. Don't forget to make Tools-> Settings-> General "Enable process Injection" and if you have trouble with import to blender. Retry 3D creating in RenderDoc.

[@JavierGonzalez-vf6rr]

Hi. After injecting the procces correctly, when i close the small chrome pop up with the number, the tab in RenderDoc which shows the injection process closes as well. Why does this happen?

[@scorchbrand4726]

Do I need to have google earth or something downloaded too? I don’t know how you got 3D images from google maps

[@binxuwang4960]

It s so cool and so easy to use!!! Thank you

[@Kosoku63]

Yes exactly how I needed it

[@adityagudla5685]

He made an city, I'm still in donut

[@smsahil9016]

I also started with a donut bruh

[@panglima-opensource9887]

@@usamazaheer9194 nope.... not me.... these googlemap is my first trial using blender...mando u got these wrong....

[@kesavdarshan]

I too working on Donut

[@IsaacStevensHOA]

Getting this error. Also when I try to open the application after pasting into properties, the the Chrome GPU wont show up. please help

[@artee232]

me too..

[@JoostDe99]

@@artee232 Same here, cannot find file location...

[@tompalinckx6501]

Closing chrome fixed that for me

[@akura2]

I'm not getting the 2-window "GPU" pop up... I have Chrome closed and I'm still seeing Chrome.exe files when I refresh... and I'm not getting the pop-up to put into render doc...

[@kevinandrew9336]

i have the same issue, what should i do?

[@thecoxis974]

3min and 50sec of usefull tips ! Thanks =)

[@matthew_brown]

Awesome video!! I love it.

[@BlenderRookie]

Everything goes good until I try to import the file into Blender. When I try to I get a "trackback" error.

[@kotobdev]

Same. Anyone else have this?

[@ifzwischendurch]

@@kotobdev Try Renderdoc version 1.9 (instead of 1.10). It worked for me.

[@69ChevyGarage]

@@ifzwischendurch Same here. Rederdoc 1.9 w/ Blender 2.82

[@JJChalupnik]

Really really cool. Gotta make sure everything is compatible. I had to use x64 version of RenderDoc because Chrome is apparently x64 now. I used Blender 2.93.8. Maps Model Importer was v0.4.0. RenderDoc was version 1.18. A note on RenderDoc... I had to edit the settings/prefs to allow for process injection. You have to enable it and restart the program to use that option under the file menu. Got it to work though! Amazing solution!

[@diime02]

I didn't get it to work, google won't launch in debugging mode and that makes the injection process stop every time I press "ok" on the popup window with the id number

[@lewisbianco8951]

@@diime02 Yeah I'm having the exact same issue. Checked the github and it seems that the creator of Render Doc is a massive autist because he keeps closing any Q&As asking about this issue. Something to do with it being used for illegal activities...

[@Vonnie369]

thats pretty epic, nice addon to GIS

[@jippee1]

the next thing Elie Michel must do is extract flight simulator 2020 data

[@artiew8718]

OSM buildings exists

[@jippee1]

@@artiew8718 but there are other handcrafted buildings that don't exist

[@deepred6502]

Confirmed working with Blender 2.93 + RenderDoc 1.13 x64 + Google Chrome x64, so long as you adjust the directory of the Chrome shortcut. You may have to zoom into the area you want to capture first, so that the hi-res meshes & textures load.

[@yaras_phoenix]

I tried Blender 2.93.6 + RD 1.13 + Chrome (x64). Everything is fine until importing in blender: I get version compatibility error though all versions should fit. Upd. RD 1.16 helped with Chrome

[@AlexKongMX]

I can confirm as of April 25, 2021, this still works, RIGHT ON!

[@ValeGoG]

Большое спасибо за урок ! Надеюсь этот способ будет работать ещё долгое время ! :)

[@markcruzmedia]

tried this but when i tried to launch the modified Chrome shortcut (followed all the steps correctly), it literally does nothing. what could be wrong? tried it with the latest chrome.

[@reigndc666]

same thing for me

[@GerryGoodDude]

Same for me too

[@miguelrodrigogonzalez8333]

Hey Mark, Reign and Matt. I had the same problem as you did. I tried the following which worked for me: 1-After installation and creation of the chrome shortcut reboot the pc. 2-Make sure the first time you open any internet browser is using the modified shortcut. Only then the additional window with the PID number opens for me. To do so I used my phone to follow the tutorial. So I didn't have any other chrome process opened. Let me know if this is of any help.

[@Drawyah]

Also check the install location of Chrome when you copy and paste the code. If you have installed this into a different location, the code in the description looks in the wrong place.

[@TC3Dgraphicdesign]

Google Chrome pid number does not appear, I wonder why? Thank you.

[@KingAbodi206]

Thanks for all of your vid. It helpful

[@ewwitsantonio]

Amazing. Thank you!!

[@rangituhia]

Everytime I open Renderdoc, it opens then crashes shortly after. Has anyone got a fix for this?

[@renepiccolo2366]

I do. Close all browser windows. If that doesn’t work, use Opera

[@bendolmanb]

It didnt work with RenderDoc v1.12. but it did with v1.9

[@davidmitterrutzner6392]

Can confirm as well. Using Blender 2.9.2 and the MapsImporter v0.3.7

[@bazoo8383]

@@Nicko16 hello I've problem, I have RenderDoc v1.9 and maps models importer v0.3.7 and blender say me there is problem with versions

[@andrewavvakoumides340]

Yes. Confirmed as well. Thanks so much Bennilava and David!

[@bazoo8383]

@@davidmitterrutzner6392 I can't, when I use him, he open and it close, I tried with 1.81 but when we put the extracted map on blender 1.81 nothing happen

[@binarydupizza6781]

Thank you so much

[@solotronixTV]

One of the best hacks I have seen in a long time. thanks

[@HanniSeidenba0525]

very useful and educational. thank you