Blender Earth Modeler Add-on | 3D Google Earth (City/Terrain) inside Blender

[@jkn5039]

We truly don't deserve blender as a software. The gift that keeps on giving

[@nikthefix8918]

I'm sure they would say that you deserve it because you appreciate it so much. It's a wonderful relationship and I bet the devs would love to read your comment.

[@Corn_Pone_Flicks]

I certainly don't feel like I deserve all the headaches its interface has caused me. It's like they went out of their way to make it needlessly difficult.

[@Distop-IA]

It's necessary against oligopolies that hold 3d hostage.

[@mixchief]

@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Compared to ZBrush or Maya, it's not even remotely as confusing. :)

[@sirneko2]

You know how in every movie they explain the plans for the mission and they've got a perfect 3D model of everything they need? That's the future with Blender

[@singaii]

As a 3D artist working in Blender for smart city production, this is purely mind blowing !

[@zachhoy]

it changes everything

[@hugboat808]

Can I work for you?

[@Aldebaran80]

it opens a lot of possibilities for us!

[@Devour_]

You've been able to do this for years in blender, this add on just brings it all together.

[@zachhoy]

@@Devour_ have you done it? Try working with the UVs that you get from scraping google maps with RenderDoc... it's HOURS of work. This skips that whole step. But yes, it's not totally new, agree.

[@oculicious]

big is an understatement, I've dreamt of this for almost 2 decades! Thinking back on all the projects throughout my career where a huge stressful chunk of that work could be done with a few clicks. OpenGIS itself was a godsend, but this is a "never-in-a-million-years" dream. So extremely excited, thank you for bringing this to the world!

[@hugoantunesartwithblender]

This was already possible, altought not as fast, with renderdoc

[@oculicious]

with renderDoc you're doing photogrammetry of photogrammetry so I'd imagine there is some inherent degradation right?@@hugoantunesartwithblender

[@TheLevelord]

Me too, since the days of Duke Nukem and Quake 😃

[@pekkariihonen8944]

The all important mention of "The final render will include all of Google's legal copyright attributions" near the end. This was the thing I wanted to hear. Excellent! Thank you!

[@MyKnexus]

If you go down to street level (not street view) in Google Earth, the buildings and other objects start to look kind of surreal or dream-like. For a long time, I had been thinking that, if only we could access that 3D data, it would be possible to green screen a whole movie in this surreal GoogleEarth world. With camera tracking in Blender, this can now be done. Very cool!

[@thomgizziz]

It was able to be done before, you were just too lazy to figure out how to do it and it wasnt even that difficult.

[@UncleUncleRj]

@@thomgizziz if it wasn't that difficult then why would Google be so proud of this new development?

[@danpsou]

@@thomgizziz wouldn't you be able to express that exact same sentiment without the unnecessary toxic hostility? Or are you just too lazy to figure out how to socially interact with other people like an adult human being with a fully formed cerebral cortex?

[@stealth2951]

Honestly might be my first time watching your channel. Great content btw. And this is absolutely amazing. This is a game changer for blender artists. Very well done by Google. And this is just the beginning of it.

[@toniogm]

Absolutely impressive!!!! I'm looking forward to test it!!!! Thanks again, Rob, you're simply the best!!!!! ❤

[@Kadamx]

Can anyone give me a google api key...... i tried so many times to add my credit card and there's an error not allowing that.... I'll need it just for 10 mins. Or if anyone can download the map and send it to me.. That would be a great help😢

[@shotbyjkru]

I'm fascinated by the quality of the trees, cranes, billboards, etc. I use Google Earth Studio on a daily basis, and the level of detail you display is unparalleled to the original product. Take my money.

[@mrbeanns]

Truly spectacular. Congratulations, this is very impressive. I can't wait to be able to try it

[@matthewloynd9364]

I work as in an architecture firm and this is exactly what I have been looking for! We deal a lot with renderings and presenting our ideas to the clients and my sturggle is finding a good way to incorparate the design with the suraounding context. There have been many attempts to bring google images into blender but they are cumbersome and very technical. Or they simply don't work as there are many bugs (Because they are a bit complex). I would definitely be intersted in using this in every project! Great Work!

[@ramia5169]

There are solutions for this particular application. The question however is if you also care for photogrammetry/topography. Are you considering for conceptual or also in SD/DD? Maybe touring clients in the BIM model and checking what views you may get out of the windows?

[@TheBagOfHolding]

Does ai do architecture yet?

[@bea7823]

@@TheBagOfHoldingConceptually maybe but I wouldn’t trust the AI to obey building and safety norms.

[@TheBagOfHolding]

@@lew6598 maybe it can scan our plans and build a virtual model and test it against different catastrophic events thousands of times soon from a few prompts and scan of the blueprints at least.

[@thomgizziz]

@@TheBagOfHolding no... not unless somebody wants to spend a bunch of time programming it to do that. You are talking about something you understand nothing about but you feel like you do so you end up saying dumb things that you really have faith in.

[@isaacholzwarth]

Years ago i imagined an open world driving game that would utilize Google maps and census data to be able to drive and explore anywhere in the world using generative terrain, meaning that you would program the game to build the environment on the fly, along with adding in people, building interiors, etc, allowing you to just go and explore an approximation of the entire world. That sort of thing would actually be possible now.

[@TheFERStation]

The thing i wanna know is how do i make it a game

[@isaacholzwarth]

@@TheFERStation if I knew how to make it a game I'd have done it by now. ;) I have dabbled in game development a tiny bit, that would be WAY over my head.

[@BioClone]

That is mostly what flight simulator does, just they used bing

[@Thorocious]

This is what i've been waiting for since microsoft dropped the latest flight simulator... It's only a matter of time.

[@ZenBeepBop]

that would be VERY intensive to run but that would be so good

[@dinky9216]

As a London bus driver I can confirm that whenever traffic is that light it is standard practice to use the wrong side of the road. Thanks for adding that detail.

[@heveycreations4197]

Amazing ! Cant wait for this addon to come out to the public !

[@mauquibzonedout]

This just popped up out of nowhere. I 'm glad it did, now I have to subscribe to your channel. Great video my guy!

[@davidrichard1910]

I LOVE IT! ❤ As part of my job (3D urban modeler), I'll need this add-on right away. I hope it will be available for download soon. Bravo for the great job.

[@KlassikMafiaProduction]

DAMN THIS IS GAME CHANGING IM GOING TO SWITCH FROM MAYA TO BLENDER

[@Mr.Epsilion]

I'm leaved the 3ds max lol 😂

[@aronkvh]

This is incredible! I can imagine lots of possibilities when mixing this with the OpenStreetMap plugin. Can't wait to test it

[@RBLXProd]

I'm very excited for the OpenStreetMap one

[@mike-pm6xn]

Now anyone can "travel" anywhere without having to actually travel and see the world for themselves. One can just sit in a chair all day and view the world without moving a leg, eat tons, get fat and just live a sedentary life. Brilliant!

[@michaelvollrath3192]

Really looking forward to this release, it's been something myself and colleagues have been interested in for years and there were some hacky or copyright infringing solutions that have come and gone over time but the fact that there is actually a partnership between Cesium & Google for this data set is critical. Thanks for all your work in this! I see leveraging this or Cesium in Unreal with google earth tiles as overall background filler, and then having a high detailed pointcloud of the local site context, and then the 3D model of the actual architecture project being highly beneficial for AEC sector. (many other use cases as well of course)

[@joakimbertil]

This will be so much easier and more flexible to work with than Google Earth Studio! Amazing.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

A fine artist friend once told me "To Americans, water is always blue" - He wasn't wrong. The Thames is a greeny-brown colour. Great video, as someone who's done a dozen Earth fly-ins for clients over the last nearly 30 years, this is a complete game changer!

[@ImagiscopeTech]

I was being optimistic 😉

[@macnavi]

It’s worse that his bus is driving on the right, not the left. 😂

[@Cpen5311]

WOW! I can already think of a list of ways I can use this! Absolutely amazing, cannot wait to try it out!!

[@michaelsmusicinstruments9980]

After height maps, terrain party, Gis addon, and some other build addons since 2.78, this will be the next level. It looks very awsome, I can't wait to try it out. I hope it will be as great as it looks, great job guys, go Blender community!!!! 🧡🧡🧡

[@Kadamx]

Can anyone give me a google api key...... i tried so many times to add my credit card and there's an error not allowing that.... I'll need it just for 10 mins. Or if anyone can download the map and send it to me.. That would be a great help😢

[@thierrybeghin1]

AMAZING : Thank you Rob for this excellent new video. Very good demonstration !!!!! Can't wait to try it out !

[@leslieblake9]

When will it be expected to become available? Utterly incredible work, well bloody done!

[@beyondgoodkitten4407]

I can express how happy I am, that we will all be jobless in a spawn of 3-5 years! But it's so worthy to pursue this perspective just for the sake of progress itself -- I'm sure that our families agree with the notion.

[@JoramPatiño]

This looks amazing! This is certainly an add-on I'd like to try. Is there a newsletter or any way to know about its development? Or maybe beta testing?

[@suningchen]

For a second i thought that was real people walking down there, but is still amazing work!!

[@Ponlets]

why is it not linked in the description?

[@lawnside82]

Its not out yet.

[@Ponlets]

@lawnside82 then how is he doing or using it then If he is able to use it then it's clearly out

[@ImagiscopeTech]

Not out yet. I'm developing it. This is a preview version. Details on the beta coming soon.

[@hugboat808]

@@Ponletslol the confusion

[@Ponlets]

@ImagiscopeTech looking forward to its release

[@TrevorNew]

Can't wait for this, I have a project I just started and I would love to try this out. Amazing work, thank you for making this!!!

[@VerdePenguin]

Tell us where we can download it when we can use it. That's all we care about right now. We see it's capability now We want to play

[@Zixea_a]

WOAAAH this is great for “generating” terrain if you want it to be as realistic as possible.

[@homemade_vancity]

Brilliant! I cannot wait to work with this in Blender. It will be such a time saver for quick, pre-vis environment creation .. Love it! When will the add-on be available and (of course) what is the cost? EDIT: Quick question, when it renders out the buildings/environment, can you work on the structures as you would an asset? For example, street scene from London, could you add signage/details from an alley in Japan -or- could you add dirt and ivy/moss to the structures? Are the buildings able to be used for destruction sims or flood sims, could you assign collisions to the structures or things from the Google Earth import?

[@ImagiscopeTech]

Re date: still determining. Asset usage, there are some guidelines regarding the Earth imagery that prohibits alterations, but from what I remember it's not specific. Street level detail is not great too - models are created from airplanes and shadows, trees play with the photogrammetry

[@Kadamx]

Can anyone give me a google api key...... i tried so many times to add my credit card and there's an error not allowing that.... I'll need it just for 10 mins. Or if anyone can download the map and send it to me.. That would be a great help😢

[@jollypolly1686]

Looking forward to trying this out. Amazing work to the developers.

[@1Chitus]

This looks absolutely incredible! I'm definitely interested in trying out this add-on. Is there a newsletter or any other way to stay updated on its development? Perhaps even an opportunity for beta testing?

[@ImagiscopeTech]

I'll be posting here

[@Kadamx]

Can anyone give me a google api key...... i tried so many times to add my credit card and there's an error not allowing that.... I'll need it just for 10 mins. Or if anyone can download the map and send it to me.. That would be a great help😢

[@memeabledata]

Looks fantastic! Looking forward to being able to try it

[@Kristiancimo]

That is absolutely amazing, I know some addons that can do this but here seems much much easier and with more features. Really excited for it. Any possibilities to have a beta version of the addon? I'll pay for it if it's necessary

[@MarkoVasev]

I remember a few years ago following a tedious and finicky process to rip the 3D data from google maps. This is amazing.

[@88blxd]

This is absolutely amazing, when is it supposed to be released ? Will it have a price ?

[@ImagiscopeTech]

I don't have an answer yet. There are a few features that need to be developed and tested. Additionally, Google is a player here as they provide the data and I need clarification from them regarding costs, if any.

[@StooCambridgeArtist]

That's incredible! Brilliantly demonstrated.

[@grigorescustelian6012]

We are in June 2024 and where is it ?!!

[@raduciucu]

Most likely they got Cease and Desist or Shut up money from Google

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

Oh wow, this is pretty incredible!

[@husnafuzi5515]

This is revolutionary! Look forward to the release!

[@MarioMenendezLopez]

this is absolutely mind blowing congratulations!! and cant wait for it to be released. Outstanding job man

[@michaellai1027]

Phenomenal! You gave us a delicious expectation, however it is unavailable! you just make us sleepless, man!

[@nameinvalid69]

THIS IS INSANE... INSANE! Previously we had to do all sort of hacks to get model from GoogleEarth for modelling reference purpose, now can just directly get it in Blender!

[@johnkew421]

Thank you Ton Roosendaal for freely giving the world Blender.

[@MartinAaberge]

Holy Smack... That is insane!

[@FinalMotion]

HOLY CROW YES! i have been using such a hacking workaround, this looks amazing! cant wait!!!

[@microcolonel]

This is gonna be a huge deal for architectural visualization.

[@lubaka8269]

Simply incredible! Can't wait for it to come out!

[@redtrigger1475]

when this addon will be relased...?

[@redtrigger1475]

@lubaka8269

[@lubaka8269]

@@redtrigger1475 No clue, the guy said he is developing it so we just have to be patient.

[@redtrigger1475]

@@lubaka8269 ok ok

[@Tomy_Yon]

O...m...g... That is absolutely breathtaking! ❤

[@hoogyoutube]

Incredible stuff, thank you Rob

[@FUTURSample]

Amazing, so many possibilities with this !

[@riccardofoschi]

O my God! this is what I've waited for decades! Let us know as soon as possible when it will be available for download!

[@jellesmarbleschannel]

Awesome, like the fonts

[@Siansonea]

I don't like how fast that van is driving next to the Duomo in Florence. That's a heavy pedestrian area. This is really cool technology, I can't wait to see later iterations of this.

[@gregorychan6875]

this is mind blowing, still remember a year or so ago how to do something like is can only be done either abstract models from google, or extract the google earth studio data and try to match it in blender/ after effects. This add-on will change this workflow completely and would love to be a part of it!!

[@MotorSeb]

Hi, this is clearly the kind of addon I need currently. Can't wait the release !

[@kaydevious]

Some technological advancements can be kinda scary, but this being possible in a free 3D program is just awesome.

[@Theferrariguy]

Cant wait for this, My Assetto Corsa tracks are gonna look amazing now

[@BoltRM]

Thanks for speeding up the video! I was having trouble following along at normal speed. 🙃

[@nomizomichani]

The River Thames looks so clean!

[@dreamzdziner8484]

Blender gets super charged with mind blowing addons like this!😍🔥🔥

[@jazzlehazzle]

FANTASTIC. Great work buddy! Thank you!!

[@conmes3077]

awesome 🥰 can’t wait 👍🏻

[@agent_op]

Looks really great! Can't wait to get my hands on it!

[@TheOfficialStal]

This is awesome! I've been 3D printing cityscapes using Google Earth data, it requires so much fiddling and cleanup just to get the data usable using current methods, this add-on would save me so much time!

[@Kadamx]

Can anyone give me a google api key...... i tried so many times to add my credit card and there's an error not allowing that.... I'll need it just for 10 mins. Or if anyone can download the map and send it to me.. That would be a great help😢

[@R1po]

Was thinking about something like this years ago. Impressive to see it now happening.

[@micahheart9676]

This is out of this world! Awesome! Bravo blender!

[@Monster-gr8on]

I have been waiting for something like this. Something that can generate a 3d world from streetview etc. And to have it in a game that you can drive around across the world

[@oscarromerogarcia5253]

where can i download

[@krzysztofzwolinski956]

" - can you describe it with words" - no - In sound? - WHOA"

[@Zen_Craft_Studio]

i can see some truly amazing stuff with this

[@MichaelBTraveller]

Crazy! How good does that look!

[@PaddySlattery]

And THIS is an example that agi tech cannot be controlled. Mind-blowingly impressive. Mind-blowingly terrifying.

[@ImagiscopeTech]

Human here 😀

[@Mcoivy]

This is truly mindblowing! can't wait to test it

[@mundohipi]

Awesome, like the fonts,

[@arcadefrog9914]

This is phenomenal! The possibilities of future developers continues to expand. We're getting closer to having tools where we attach a sensor to our heads and can think our games into existence.

[@a.thiago3842]

Man, it's bizarre!!! Mindblowing! When i found out we could use the Google's map data do create scenarios years ago, i was shocked. Now i once again got shocked of how this is evolving! Folks, doesn't matter if the quality is garbage. With the artificial intelligence on our doors, it's just a matter of time for it to improve. Look at Midjourney and what it's capable of. Fining the Google's map textures is nothing compared to what we have in our hands in 2023. I guess i'm not the only one, but since i was a child, i always dreamed of taking a car in a game and driving around the world. Now it's going to be very possible. It won't take long. I remember that in Microsoft Flight Simulator X i downloaded a car mod and tried to drive around the streets, but it wasn't made for it unfortunately.

[@TheColinStein]

Dang. That's incredible! Can't wait to try that out myself!

[@Hollywood041]

This is crazy. I love it.

[@danrebeiz4598]

This is insane in all the right ways.

[@HolyBeardedOne]

Let's Gooo! This is awesome.

[@jackschitt7783]

That's really cool! Now we'll have more real-life cities in games!

[@NebMotion]

mind blowing, cant wait to play with this

[@xmaverickhunterkx]

If I was in my teens now, I'd probably be Blendering left and right.

[@franidvfx]

Had to get Google Maps data a few years ago, it was very difficult and the result wasnt the best. This wouldve saved me so much time!

[@BigJyeTV]

This could be a game changer for game developers of course but also movie studios. Imagine filming an aerial shot of Paris without ever leaving the U.S.

[@joshderr]

oh this is *fantastic* - can't wait to try it out!

[@Theanine3D]

Can't wait for this to be released!

[@matthewyglesias1508]

I cant wait to FINALY 3d print my home town! Its a project ive always wanted to do but never had a solid workflow for it!

[@cpujols]

This changes the game, not only for 3D artists, but for 2D artists who want to conceptualize in 3D!

[@alessandromanunza]

looking forward to having a first release of the add-on! excellent job! I'm in through github!

[@GD-lv8cc]

I could really use this for a project I'm working on for downtown Long Beach. Can't wait to try it.

[@SamuBlitz]

This is freaking awesome

[@Daibutsumusic]

Hello! I definitely want this add-on for Blender! I've subbed, please keep us in the loop! Thank you so much for this sir!

[@3dandme777]

I agree that Blender is a gift, and I love it.

[@DomeStiefel]

My completely overpowered and overpriced computer runs now for 3 days, to recreate the google earth buildings from thousands of screenshots, because I couldn’t find a way to download the data from Google on Mac. I can not describe how glad I am for this announcement!!!!!

[@Plot_Pulse]

This is really amazing! Greatest addon by far for cities. Can't what to see something like this for space objects!

[@mapograph]

This is truly huge!