Beginners Guide to Dem Earth

[@Ambient3DAnimations]

Thank you for the tutorial! This will be helpful for architectural renders.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Absolutely and great seeing you here 🤙🏿🤙🏿

[@eyedesyn]

Get all dem earths!!!! awesome tut man!

[@JonathanWinbush]

😎

[@griptopia]

I've been using Paul's plugin for a long time so weird seeing you doing a tutorial about it, thanks mr! what up what up! as always great content and despite knowing how to use this you showed me something i didn't know! thank Wibush!!! xx

[@JonathanWinbush]

Oh yea, I was using Dem Earth for years for a few client projects I would do making maps!

[@gwarns5921]

neat, ive been eyeing this plug in for a while but with out a work use for it cant really justify the cost! hopfully a map craving client will fall into my life soon!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yea definitely want to have a client project offset the cost because then the plugin pays for itself 🤙🏿💯

[@tebotuaev9719]

Thanks for such usefull content on your channel!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thank you buddy a lot more to come I have some exciting stuff I'm working on I want to cover 🤙🏿

[@Feryzal]

Does it work for europe map? My friend had problem to generate landscape for North Sea Area, for example Sylt. It generates only plain map without terrain

[@peter486]

That is pretty cool :)

[@JonathanWinbush]

Ya I use this plugin all the time for client work it's always been one of my main go to tools 🤙🏿💯

[@thewaliiiii]

Love this plugin, I wish they can reconsider the yearly maintatanice price a bit

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yea that's why I usually wait until I have a project that'll cover the cost

[@efergusson]

Great piece of really useful software, but there are too many issues with the licensing to be reliable when you need it to be; non-existent support (on Node-locked licenses), people getting the software bricked when they reinstall Windows, or even when the plugins MAKERS changed their own server, etc. The data is accessible elsewhere (USGS, OpenStreetMap, etc), so go there if possible.

[@JonathanWinbush]

How do you pull the info from those sites? I usually used Terrain.party but it has been down for along while

[@andrearusky]

Is it possible to create the globe, instead of the flat square land? Say you want to do a zoom in from satellite, when you see the earth curvature and then zoom inside a particular location? Also is it possible to assign 2 different materials, one for the land and one for the water? So that you can have some stronger specular reflections on the water and less on the lands.. Thanks!

[@JonathanWinbush]

You can't do a globe that would be extremely to much data to download but yes you can do the water as I show in this tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ6YaK2aad6nZsU

[@robt8661]

Well done ser, thank you!

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome 🤙🏾

[@LoganPinney]

Looks so easy to make realistic landscapes! Any chance they have a Ue version!?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Let Paul the developer know! I've been telling him he needs to bring this to UE!

[@oxygencube]

So sick. Thankyou.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yea buddy. Hows everything on your end

[@jacquesjanoyer]

Thank's

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome 🤙🏿

[@TranslucentStudios]

Do you know I these are high enough resolution to print at 300 dpi for a book I'm working on?

[@JonathanWinbush]

I think it depends on the region as satellite data quality varies

[@TranslucentStudios]

@@JonathanWinbush hey Jonathan. Are you available for email conversations?

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@TranslucentStudios I'm not currently taking any new jobs at the moment

[@TranslucentStudios]

@@JonathanWinbush oh, I thought you were the creator of the software. I just wanted to discuss in more detail about the limits and potential uses of the software. I plan to use it myself. But I don’t want to invest and then spend the time trying to learn it if it’s not going to work. Do you happen to know if they have a customer support team? Thank you for taking the time to help me out.

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@TranslucentStudios Oh sorry I'm not the creator you can find their site at cinemaplugins.com/c4d-plugins/dem-earth/

[@22carmoon]

Can you zoom out far enough to display an entire country for example with height data?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Probably not as that would take alot of data to load

[@22carmoon]

@@JonathanWinbush Thanks for the very quick reply. If you just wanted the impression of some basic elevation over a country could you reduce the amount or quality of the height data? Almost to the point where it's just some very fine grooves if that makes sense?

[@22carmoon]

I'm thinking of purchasing it but it's quite expensive and I need it for a very specific need so just need to know if it can do something like that.

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@22carmoon yea maybe for smaller countries but something like like Brazil or China I've not had much luck going that large

[@22carmoon]

@@JonathanWinbush thanks! Yeah nothing that big, specifically. if I must say, the island of Novaya Zemlya in Russia!

[@BogdanRunceanu]

Thanks Winbush! Great recommendation, as usual. Would you happen to know if this would provide decent enough quality and detail for an Unreal Environment, like a driving sim, where surfaces kind of need to be accurate? Thanks for all the good work! Cheers!

[@JonathanWinbush]

So you could defiinately bring the height map into UE but like the google map or whatever map you end up downloading wouldnt be high enough res to do a POV shot you'd have to probably build on top of the map

[@BogdanRunceanu]

@@JonathanWinbush thanks! yeah, my best chance atm would be to use the height map data as a base for the surroundings and over impose a laser scan for the road surface

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@BogdanRunceanu interesting so you'd laser scan your own data or where would this come from?

[@BogdanRunceanu]

@@JonathanWinbush Yeah, that would be the idea. Originally, we have used the services of a GIS company (like here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4rImIx4dpqlm68) for such endeavors and it was up to us to come up with the rest of the environment based on photographic references (Google Street View, mostly). That was a long time ago and for a game engine that's no longer in use. More recently, I went back to that project thinking of reiterating it in a more contemporary approach (UE) and since in the meantime I started doing more serious photogrammetry and laser scanning work, I realized that photos provide more detail than laser in some cases, so I would try out a version where I would collect photogrammetry data at the same time with the laser scan. Anyways, getting as much terrain detail as possible from Google Maps or some other service would be tremendous help at least as a starting point for structuring the surroundings.

[@y0umin4]

hey i have a gray viewport i cannot see anything can you help me

[@JonathanWinbush]

When using dem earth?

[@srudine]

The proper term is geographic location not "geologic location". Neat software though.

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@srudine ok

[@didierdel2319]

Bonjour, c'est un logiciel à 300 euros. Je suis surpris qu'on ne parle pas plutôt des options gratuites.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Whats the free option?

[@brookedawson9966]

Liked and fully watched! Thank me later -> Promo`SM!!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thanks! 🤙🏿