Unreal Engine 5 - Google Maps API & Cesium - Full tutorial PT 2 - Walk/Crop/Water/Cinematics/Trees

[@Repz98]

One of my biggest dream is to have Google maps in high details, on the level of Unreal Engine 5. Would be cool if Google made a project where people can summit 3D scans of landscapes (usually done with drones)

[@shuma3401]

I feel the same way! 😊 However, I had the idea of using a generator to assist in creating a more optimized city layout and so on...

[@jimj2683]

Yep, and then using generative AI to fill in all the gaps and build everything in 3d with unreal engine . It will happen one day, but I just hope it is faster than 20 years (which is what I predict now).

[@walker1054]

@@jimj2683 They already use AI to tidy up all the buildings and stuff which is why the buildings look so sharp as if it was actually modelled. They also remove cars and stuff from the roads too which is why 2d mode has lots of cars and then 3d mode the road is clear. Just a couple more steps to tidy up the ground level and you'll have a nicely modelled map of the world to walk around in which is crazy. They could probably use street view car data to help out since they already take lidar scans of the street level and have done since near the start I think. I assume theres some legal mumbo jumbo that'll stop it though.

[@buster5661]

@@walker1054 and what is that called exactly?

[@danielmethner6847]

They already had that about 15 years ago in a similar way in Google earth, where you could generate 3d models in sketch up and add them to the right location on Google.

[@alpioozen]

most youtubers says they will create another video showing the process but never produce anything, THANK YOU so much for actually creating the part 2,.

[@sonjeow]

This is amazing. So well done. I think one of the most important aspects of this level of world recreation will be historic. Every day it gets easier and more accessible. Soon, anyone will be able to record their "moment in time". One day I will be able to walk my grandchildren through my 2023 home, down the streets, bars and restaurants I used to haunt. All virtually. All in striking high definition. 50 years from now, when I die, my family will still have my virtual avatar, looks like me, sounds like me, talks like me. It won't be me. But it will be a damn good representation that grandma will be able to reflect fondly on. Perhaps my avatar will tell some of my life stories. The near future is going to be insane. This moment in time is something as special as the advent of the lightbulb, automobiles, or internet. AI, virtual replication and photo real graphics will change everything.

[@MrKams1]

You know I spent many hours making this video and don't even think about stuff like this. So valid!

[@jimj2683]

Yep. They are using AI right now to make old video footage high res and color. Heck, even 3d. In the future they will be using AI to turn the low quality old google maps into something super high quality that you can drive around in and explore.

[@foxshot97]

someone with a positive outlook instead of all the dystopic fearmongering, nice 👏👏👏

[@mdp7193]

Both parts of this tutorial have been incredibly useful, thank you for taking the time to make these!!!

[@jpsm73]

This is one of the best tutorials I have ever seen!

[@seyekoh]

I've been working towards this idea for a while and this looks so much easier than building from the ground up using Gaia like i have been. Thank you for the video.

[@Демократът]

Here is a challenge - Collect data how much data consume one user for the expected playtime for a day using imagery and elevations, check pricing, then multiply that by 30, than multiply that by the expected playerbase number, and that would be the expenses for a single month. than make video about the resulting numbers :D And i subscribed :)

[@clemfandango1299]

Problem I'm running into is hitting my quota with Google's 3D map tile API... this happened after only a couple hours of attempting to construct a cinematic scene. Wondering if there is a way to download the data and prevent it from refreshing/downloading more.

[@thesoundfromthestudio3567]

This is great, I would love to have the option to be able to have sections available for offline use. I appreciate you showing how to change the materials.

[@LenscowboySA]

Great video thanks! One question: I still have tiles loading when I do a render. Is there a way to force all tiles to load for each frame before it renders the frame?

[@victorblanchard7774]

exactly what I am looking for too! this is killing all my shots

[@TILK3D]

HELLO, I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING ALL YOUR TUTORIALS BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM AT THE MOMENT OF THE 3D VIEW THE BUILDINGS THE TREES AND EVERYTHING LOADS CONSTANTLY IS THERE A SOLUTION FOR THAT

[@ABCBCACB]

Thank you very much for the nice tutorial! It was very helpful and easy to follow. Please keep this up! :)

[@lucianodaluz5414]

Any tip for load the tiles before rendering?

[@Nangoncalves22]

For those who are not able to export the scene, why not load the tiles, use render warmup, I set it to 256 warmup frames, and it loaded my scene before rendering the shot.

[@wakeup2.369]

I bet on 1000 and it didn't help the tiles are loaded anyway during the endingar

[@MastaPFav]

this is absolutely huge! Fantastic work

[@diluciousOK]

Thanks for the tutorial! The possibilities are endless here!!

[@thomasreynolds6305]

For anyone having issues with API key not generating. I found by going to Google Api page and creating *new project *and readding Tile map api to that project that my api was fixed

[@jebinrohit7478]

My Map Tiles are missig when rendering out from the movie render queue, however they work fine in viewport, any idea if something has to be set up for this :)

[@bluemespanish]

I used the Cartographic Polygon like you said in the video but the colliders are still there. How can I remove colliders? Also could you scan for the city of London as an object. And then delete Cesium?

[@salarsalahi]

Dude, Insane. Thank you SIR.

[@mickmeenan]

Hey, very helpful tutorials, do you know is it possible to add another cartographic polygon, to hide a building so i can replace it, I had a look around but couldn't find anything

[@WalkingArchive]

Thanks for creating the second part! it is great!

[@VConquest]

Great work! Thanks for taking the time to do this.

[@lucho3612]

how about a tutorial re-lighting a google maps city in the night. Thats one of the most important limitation of "earth studio"

[@wakeup2.369]

I do not know who to write to about this already! I have a problem. Place on the map: Fujiyama volcano, camera animation from the top of the volcano down. During rendering, Google tiles are loaded constantly and this spoils the entire render. I do not know how to fix it. Pruning didn't help in any way. Perhaps the quality of the cut should be reduced to the default level? I have it on the 8th

[@stefanoc5099]

Is there a way to dont unload the tiles when they leave my field of view? Every time I move the camera and move back tiles need to be reloaded

[@sabrfeder]

that was great

[@datodavita1212]

is it possible to make the earth flat? and then transfer it to blender? i want to use ivo to create a game

[@kazemedia]

I want to keep some landscape part as mesh on local storage. Is it possible or will it be possible?

[@SubhankarDutta]

This is a very helpful video. Thanks especially for showing how to use the Cartographic Polygon tool correctly. Is there a way to export the geo?

[@agauerm]

were you able to get the topographic data? I thought that one of the uses of Cesium would be to import into UE5 real landscapes, then you would just need to paint it and add assets.

[@_jeffrey_williams]

When rendering through sequencer/MRQ, some of my tiles aren't showing. Any tips? It appears its the tiles closest to the camera.

[@alex.febres]

question, when having the camera fly by how can I make it so that the mountains in the background stop changing? for example I have my scene ready with camera movement but as the camera moves through the scene some of the trees in the background shift and change into another frame from a different angle, is there a way to keep the same picture of the mountain still? or is this because of the lack of photo info it has on the area?

[@archstuffs3darchstuffs]

How to get the 3d buildings with same details in yiur project?

[@mikoakbednarczyk3250]

Amazing job, thanks for tutorial!

[@GrekkoGaming]

Cesium works only in Unreal Editor right, because I try to export my game to PC target but impossible to export it, failed build, so it is only to get cinematics ?

[@vidayperfumes7514]

Awesome and great work, thank you

[@twilightfilms9436]

This might be a silly question, but how do you control where to place the third person character, because every time I press play, the character appears floating under the map.....thanks for the video man, it proves that regardless of time, youtube is timeless.

[@MrKams1]

Hi add a player start to your level and ensure to move it above the landscape.

[@alikhanmerchant2225]

can u provide a demo for this project plz kind sir

[@christiandebney1989]

this is incredible

[@jaws5671]

is there a way to make the cropped section of the map into a new asset that you can move around and place on other parts of the map? I want to take a block of buildings and model a neighborhood out of them.

[@NEO_RKX]

Ok but can we use this file in games of our choosing ?

[@sinanarts]

Dude, You rock..! Thank you. Cheers

[@stefanoc5099]

Since saving those huge tilesets is illegal in theory, ( its a shame since at least for distant backgrounds even if low poly theyre pretty accurate and good looking ), I wonder what is the best way to at least copy the terrain without doing it by hand. I wonder if maybe some kind of height maps import could do the job, and then just use the gmaps tilesets as a reference to draw things on

[@MrKams1]

i think you can do it blender, but cesium themselves have a new feature that allows you to crop and keep parts of their dataset

[@11516Dubstep]

I have a problem, I can’t register at step 2, it says your access is denied

[@SynthToshi]

I suggest using exr. file format for no loss of render, and also 16 for aa.

[@MrKams1]

Many thanks, yes this makes sense although the 16 aa does slow down render a bit, it will allow more time for frames to preload

[@SynthToshi]

@@MrKams1 anytime bro.

[@MigueldeCastro719]

There will be part 3?

[@romanbruni]

salve ! super nice ! why not select and cut out boats from google map into cesium ? cheers from Rio

[@motionislive5621]

OMG THANK YOU SO SO MUCH !

[@falc0n2222]

i love how he just dogged on all of us at the start

[@DesignsbyElement]

Is it possible to save that tile for offline use?

[@agauerm]

So is it possible to grab any type of terrain and edit? Like real landscapes. You get the topographic data and then just need to paint the landscape?

[@AICineVerseStudios]

This is a very informative tutorial, learned alot. I have a question, I am not able to use directional light when i add , nothing get effected. Although I deleted the Cesium sky object but still nothing. Am I missing something here?

[@danielbrown4017]

Does anyone know if there's a way to export the cropped mesh from UE5 as a FBX or a .GLB?

[@khaled7087]

waw, like and subscribe, but i have issue, in my device when i make zoom, i dont see anything 3d, only 1d or 2d, like normal google map or google earth, not 3d. please, how i can fix it? and one more thing, in my device i cant see this ( scalability:cinematic ) like your screen ( it's showing in your screen in the top left from the program) in my device it's showing only ( show ) what i should to do in this too? thank you so much, i hope that you will answer me.

[@alecciminelli4407]

I cant seem to find the cesium polygon raster overlay in my unreal engine to crop the area

[@MrKams1]

Check which version of the plugin and unreal you are using, the github is best for latest versions

[@narathipthisso4969]

Wow 🎉

[@betterdeadthanred4196]

Can you crop other forms than rectangular?

[@GameDevUE]

How does this hold up in sequencer? Id like to make a cinematic.

[@michaelmuhlen3253]

Is it possible to export the city mesh to another unrel project after the cesium and google api import?

[@petermac7315]

I am following your tutorials step by step and I don't understand where you got the world setting tab under Cesium3dTilest from

[@user-pi2eo6rg2j]

If you can't see it in your UI, go to Window>World Settings (3/4s of the way down)

[@romel__]

Nice Video Bro

[@elenadmpl]

hey great tutorials it really helped me a did everything like you and the buildings and the world is very low resolutins . do you know how to fix that?

[@MrKams1]

Hi it depends where you are us8ng in Google maps, not all regions are high resolution, in fact really only major cities and well known areas are...

[@arozendojr]

I would like to know how much RAM do I need to use Xcode + iOS emulator, 8gb runs without using Swap?

[@motionislive5621]

So do you now how to save this map offline from cesium?

[@buster5661]

any luck?

[@Phoenix_VR]

7:56 this is the most British words I've heard so far :'D

[@kazemedia]

Does Google charge us if we use it on line for a long time?

[@oyuncu5666]

If I do something like this, can I publish it on a platform like steam, can I share it with people?

[@Dream-vx2of]

Can I import to places like roblox

[@twilightfilms9436]

Thanks!

[@hatsunemikuchannel2023]

8:00: Water Height Result 😲😲😄😄🤗🤗

[@adrloper]

This is seriously useful! Do you think it is possible to use this tool for advertising? Thank you I love this content

[@MrKams1]

I would assume the content belongs to Google and would always check with them first

[@jeisreebinggo1382]

Is that possible to use in GTA 5?

[@Khalid-fx9sm]

Awesome videos! I'm a beginner when it comes to unreal and cesium, I want to create an application where I can use get the coordinates for a building address from google's geo api, crop everything in the universe except for the builidng, use some sort of computer vision algorithm to count the number of windows on a specific building in unreal, does this sound feasible? are there any pitfalls you would warn against? can you point me to tutorials or give me a skilltree of things I must master before I attempt this? (I'm proficient with web development and ML, no experience with unreal or google maps api)

[@MrKams1]

Really interesting idea bud, I think this could well be plausible...

[@user-fz8pi6xz6f]

can you tell me Georeference please?!?!

[@RoadwayVR]

Can you give some hints about the quality of meshes for a building using this technique? is it too many meshes?

[@ahmadmohammadi2396]

there is no meshes actually, its just tiles. You cannot modify anything there

[@kingsleyadu9289]

❤❤❤

[@DREAMSJPEG]

good but can't follow bc you're using marketplace item that cost 60AUD...

[@scrattyrat]

I have the Cesium3DTileset working fine, but after adding a ThirdPersonCharacter and a cube to land on, when I press play the 3D Tiles do not load, I only see the character fall onto the cube, which I can move around. When I stop playing the level the 3D tiles reappear. Not sure what i'm doing wrong and how to get the 3D tiles to render when playing the level?

[@MrKams1]

Check height of tiles and/or player...

[@scrattyrat]

@@MrKams1 Thanks -the cube height is placed nicely above the tiles before I press play, and seems to be in the same place after when the character lands on it. Just no tiles rendering

[@scrattyrat]

got it working by starting a new project as a ThirdPersonMap

[@geodude1725]

Amazing - do you know if these tiles can be exported from Unreal? This would be great for context for Twin Motion

[@MrKams1]

There is a way I think, look out for pt iii

[@geodude1725]

@@MrKams1 I look forward to it!

[@mikoakbednarczyk3250]

@@geodude1725 Yeah can't wait!

[@ezekielflores2149]

@@MrKams1 This is what I'm trying to figure out as well. Would be great to export out to twinmotion and rhino as an fbx file perhaps. This looks much cleaner and easier than some other methods.

[@bruscopa]

does anyone know if is there a way to export cesium as a static mesh to leave behind the real time streaming of google api?

[@MonsterJuiced]

explain in more detail what you mean please I may be able to help

[@qad417]

@@MonsterJuiced Convert to mesh and export for example to OBJ. Or its just possible to use it in UE5 and online?

[@MonsterJuiced]

@@qad417 I don't know what it is this guy wants so I can't understand his question properly. EDIT: I understand now. By leave behind the google API he means to not rely on the google API or the streaming from Cesium as you have to be connected to the internet and logged in for the places to load/ stream into the scene as you explore. Unfortunately the Cesium meshes aren't exactly static meshes. They're drawn in real-time from coordinates and not stored as static meshes anywhere. They're full of N-Gons too. What may be possible with both the google API meshes and the Cesium meshes is that you could select a general area and goto file > export selected. I haven't tested this but it might export as obj or fbx and you'll get mesh/ texture data. Good luck though because google's textures are an absolutely shit show and need packing properly to make a reusable asset from. Check out a blender addon called 'lily packer'.

[@bruscopa]

@@MonsterJuiced Exactly, for example if you want to migrate the level to a project with no cesium in it, or simply working offline. Im downloading 3D meshes from google earth with the renderdoc and blender workflow, but is a little bit painful to do for a big area with the closer quality.

[@ISknne3D]

the tiles loaded in the editor for me, but as soon as i tried to render out a camera pan or play in the editor the tiles vanished? any ideas as to why? Cheers

[@MrKams1]

Perhaps your api had too many requests, check in Google cloud settings or see if there is an error in log

[@ISknne3D]

@@MrKams1 Nopee, no errors in google cloud, teh only error that i saw was this, "LogConsoleVariablesEditor: Warning: FConsoleVariablesEditorModule::SendMultiUserConsoleVariableChange: Play In Editor is about to start or has started; Multi-User Cvar sync is suspended during PIE." but no idea what that means. V.odd. Also not sure how to pre-load tiles when rendering, i set up a scene at work and it let me render but it wasnt loaded, so it was just blocky, any tips on getting that working please? Cheers Ian S.

[@user-fx2py9fw5f]

Hi, I`m having the same issue, during the rendering time the first 40/50 frames are not loading the geometry from Google maps

[@MEICALANIMATION]

can you send this project file please

[@MrKams1]

Hi I will open a patreon soon with all project files available

[@stefanoc5099]

for some reason my character falls through the terrain

[@MrKams1]

Check collisions

[@stefanoc5099]

@@MrKams1 ty for the suggestion, I enabled everything and bring up the spawn point and now its fine, looks like for some reason collisions triggers starts after some kind of delay so the character falls through at the startup of the scene

[@Kingside88]

Just imagine the combination of Google maps, Unreal Engine 5 and GPT. I think GPT could render everything to high resolution by searching itself the best building of the market or tree or car or whatever.

[@NEO_RKX]

Lol proof of living in a simulation. We’re just seeing how it all began.

[@zbccc5197]

Didn't work for me. After I pasted the URL and the API key, I hit Refresh Tileset, but it doesn't appear.😭

[@MrKams1]

Ensure map tiles API is enabled

[@lucianodaluz5414]

Even with Map Tiles API enable, it wasnt showing for me until I disable the IP protection

[@MrKams1]

@@lucianodaluz5414 also for me when I disabled and put in my IP it does not work. Had to have no restrictions for it to work..... hope there is a fix incoming

[@EstateFPVTravel]

Hi! don't you know why this: LogHttp: Warning: Reached threaded request limit (20)

[@MrKams1]

@@EstateFPVTravel too many requests to Google earth API. Check my other video for method without credit card

[@EstateFPVTravel]

@@MrKams1 yes this is without credit card!

[@Kyrojii]

so I did all the exact steps and no tiles are showing up

[@MrKams1]

Ensure your map api is enabled, check the first video

[@Kyrojii]

@@MrKams1 ok so now it worked however, im not getting any meshes. just flat textures of the city

[@MrKams1]

@@Kyrojii probably slow Internet :-(

[@Kyrojii]

@@MrKams1 my internet it good. I just notice when I watch the videos you guys get buildings and trees. However I dont get the 3d tiles. Just straight 2d

[@Kyrojii]

@@MrKams1 it worked. I had to regenerate a new key. Weird. Thanks for your help though!

[@serhatctk]

I have been modeling the canary wharf area for a few months now, from original cad dwgs using 3dsmax for unreal, all buildings even the ones in construction phase though not yet complete if I cant get layout plans sections, I was using Rendrdoc and google earth, but this integration seems much better. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gl7Fo3iHapymjbM

[@MonsterJuiced]

I was doing exactly that for a location in my city. Renderdoc and ripped the chunk to model over and get scales about right. It helped a ton but this new release by google has really made things so, so much easier and more accessible.

[@BoschThermador]

Gonna take a crack at using this and bringing in LUMA AI captures.. I bet it will work amazingly

[@ElitePortraits]

Now make it playable with 128 players lol

[@some______guy]

disappointed you didnt show the actual render

[@MrKams1]

It's literally in the first minute of the video

[@finnf9051]

I hope someone is wokring on a plugin that uses AI to clean up the textures and maby some of the geometry so it f.e replaces trees eith actual tree models etc. That would be a dream.

[@offerthename]

cesium - best bad plugin. more lags and bugs.

[@BoschThermador]

man. this would have been amazing for me a few years ago when i did this in blender.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWe9doyNpLithJY 50 sec mark