#Google Earth- Update (43comp, 2u/c)

[Howie]

Skyline Shots




Grenfell Street shot!



Here's a full res version
http://www.sensational-adelaide.com/ima ... 7_full.jpg



Reorganised this first page :

3D buildings completed
* Westpac House (formerly Santos) (Howie)
* Grenfell Center (Howie)
* Hooker House (Howie)
* AMP Building (currently Origin Energy) (Howie)
* Wakefield House (Howie)
* Telstra House (Howie)
* SA Water (Howie)
* Pulteney Tower (Howie)
* Palais Apartments (Howie)
* Alpha Apartments (Howie)
* Ayers House (Howie)
* 20 Hindmarsh Square (Howie)
* CMI Toyota (Howie)
* 302-306 Waymouth Street (Howie)
* 20-22 Currie Street (Howie)
* Rundle Lantern (Howie)
* Bent St Apartments (Howie)
* Centerpoint Carpark (Howie)
* Security House (Howie)
* Masonic Centre (Howie)
* Conservatory on Hindmarsh (Howie)
* 102-120 Wakefield Street (Howie)
* Commonwealth Law Courts (Howie)
* Air Apartments (Howie)
* Spire Living (Howie)
* 13 Grenfell Street (Howie)
* Adelaide Bank (Howie)
* Roma Mitchell House (Howie)
* Hyatt Regency Hotel (Howie)
* Adelaide Railway Station (Howie)
* Wyatt House (Howie)
* 151 Pirie Street (Currently KPMG) (Howie)
* 45 Grenfell Street (Howie)
* Chesser House (Howie)
* Citi Centre (Howie)
* Adelaide Festival Centre (Howie)
* Reserve Bank of Australia (Howie)
* State Administration Centre (Howie)
* 411 Victoria Square, SGIC Building (Howie)
* Beehive Corner (Howie)
* 11-19 Gilles Street (Wave) (Howie)

The Never Built Series
* Capital City Development (Howie)
* The 100 Storey Tower (Howie)
* Adelaide Airport Hotel (Howie)

3D buildings under construction
* City Central Tower 2 (placeholder up) (Howie)
* Myer Centre (Howie)

Getting Started
Setup
- Install Google Earth.
- Install Google Sketchup.
- Install the Network Link (this will enable you to download objects from the 3D warehouse).

Building
- Nominate a building to work on that someone else isn't doing (see list above)
- Navigate to where it should be under Google Earth, switch terrain off, then open SketchUp and grab the Google satellite pic (button close to the rhs).
- Build your 3D object (when scaling, it only accepts feet, so e.g. Santos instead of being 135m is 443ft, you can input this figure in directly).
- Last step before uploading it into the warehouse, go back to google earth, switch terrain back on. Then elevate it to the appropriate height.
- Then click share model (button close to rhs), give it a name (e.g. Myer (Adelaide) plus some information).
- Then use the Place in Google Earth button (close to RHS on sketchup).

[sam]

I present to you Santos in all her glory hehe.

Nice, but I'm curious as to who that little purple fella is in by the Google logo..?

[Howie]

His name is Will Power, you can download him from quit.com.au hehe

P.s. can i get someone else with google earth to see if they can see what i've uploaded from their machines?

[Al]

From what I can see it doesn't appear on Google Earth natively. You have to install a thing call 3D Warehouse network link from the google earth page. Then it searches the database for objects that people have created. However, I haven't seen Santos. Howie, did you upload your model to the 3D warehouse database? If so, maybe I'm still doing something else wrong.

[Howie]

I thought I did. I did upload it into the warehouse.

But if it hasn't gone in yet, it's probably a good thing. It's not exactly to scale... still too wide, i'm working from photographs here. If only I can get the floor plan of Santos :S

[Howie]

Okay uploaded into the warehouse

Santos House
Grenfell Center
Hooker House

You need the network link in google earth to see them
http://earth.google.com/3d.html

[Aseem]

I see them!

Cheers,
-Aseem

[Howie]

I just realised if terrain is turned on it looks out of scale, switch it off again and it works.

hmmm...

[crawf]

god, i wish i had XP!!

[Howie]

Hey guys, delete your current objects... i've updated all the models for Grenfell, Hooker and Santos... and just added SA Water.



You probably can't see from here, but grenfell has the oracle sign, and santos now has windows and the santos signage.

Come on all, we need more participants.. we've got alot of buildings to get through, even if you just made blocky as place holders and we can finish them up.

[Howie]

[Mants]

grenfell centre is missing its spire...lol

id help, but i dunno how

[Howie]

Yes, I know.. i'll have it on there shortly. I've also thrown up Hooker House update.. looks much more realistic now.

Mant's just give it a go buddy... the tutorial's are heaps easy to follow. It's not a full fledge cad program it's just a simple modelling tool. My first ones were really blocky but now i've moved onto more detail... after about the third building it gets much easier.

[Howie]

AMP building up now.

All terrains now fixed up.

[Howie]