Get Google Maps 3D in Any Architectural Software (Tutorial - Updated method 2023) 

hi thank you! did you found a workaround so far? Otherwise I will do it the "old way"

@@TheMrsCubeman I haven't. Old way is the way for now.

I used the Simple Bake add-on ($20) in Blender in place of Simplygon and got it to work. I baked in Cycles following the example from the creator's video on the the Blender Market Simple Bake page.

What changes did you make to the code? I am also running into an error: 'Simplygon initialization error: SIMPLYGON_{}_PATH not set' I have no idea how to fix this

try with revolut. it is easy and fast to set

Can be done without it search other tutorials.

Ran into something similar, dwongraded to 3.6 and there it works.

its more of a google problem than a blosm or blender one. the size of the 3D tiles is set by Google, so if you only select a portion of one 3d tile, it will import the entire 3d tile

@@blanesolis I don't think that's it. I can see the outline of the tiles and I should have about 10 of them given the size of my selection rectangle. Instead I have hundreds. Blosm imported 1/4 of the city I'm working in, not the single block I selected. Thanks for your feedback in any case.

you can , but its the worst mesh ever, dont use it for 3d print.

This error is happening In class: IAggregationPipeline In method: RunSceneFromFile Error text: Error: Failed to save free license asset, check that input scene and geometry data is valid Error: Unable to write to buffer. Interface: IPipeline Method: RunSceneFromFile Type: -50 Line: 0

i got the same issue, i believe is the size of my mesh@@matheusguerra827

same.......@@matheusguerra827

Not that I know of at the moment :(

I believe you need to sign in with your microsoft account.

Will check this out. Good request.

You just need your standard google account (one you use with gmail/youtube etc). Then you create a project and get a specific key which you tie to your account. It's not a seperate Google map account, it's just letting your account access this information. 3:40 should explain.

@@byDevCreates Thank you for the prompt reply. This is just what is confusing, I can't see where to go to credentials in the Google account. And this link 3:40 you referred me to, is showing it is a Google Cloud account which is different from a Google account. In a Google account, you don't need your credit card details. It's really confusing, I can't see all those features, to create an API key from a Google account.

@@byDevCreates Hello there! Please can you bring more illumination to this? I can't see how I can achieve this with standard Google Account. Although you say that in your video, but the page you went to, which has Credentials is titled Google Cloud/Google Maps Platform which is a Google Cloud Account. Pls clarify.

@@adegokekeshinro4315 go to the credientials page and sign in with your regular google account

@@byDevCreates I have given up on this! I was all the time already signed in to my Google account. After putting my credit card in, my account was suspended. After so many trials to contact Google, I finally got to them on the phone, and they emailed me to upload my information. I followed the link they sent and uploaded the information, and the next day I received an email that I uploaded the information through an incorrect form. Can you imagine? They sent me that link. I queried that, and no reply. One other thing I noticed is the initial emails I received saying my billing account was suspended, as the temporary charge to verify my account was never sent to my credit card details (tried many times and received no temporary charge), so I couldn't verify my account; that's why they made me upload my information; then these initial emails disappeared from my Gmail account. I know I didn't delete them. Everything looks suspicious to me. Now they have my personal information, and I will just wait for another day to see if I get a reply from them. If I don't, I will cancel my credit card with my bank. Google is so terrible at support. Very hard to get to talk to them, and very bad at replying to emails. The whole thing looks like a scam, to me. Looks like they deleted those initial emails from my account after getting my information, to erase any trace of their history with me. This has been going on for a week now, just to allow me to download Google 3D maps. Too complicated.

check the original fbx/obj and see if material is embedded in there? Also check the file size, im the video i mentioned how if its too large recap wont process textures.

It is working with material inside recap but when I import it to revit come without texture @@byDevCreates

wich recap version did you use? i cant export a rcs file from an imported fbx file.

just need to apply a python fix: C.scene.blosm.cacheJsonFiles = False

main thing is a powerful processor i believe, you might need a gpu with good vram and high ram in general depending how big your extracts are.

I had to download 3.6.5 blender

Hey there, check google maps (regularly) and see if you have 3D buildings. I guess if its not there in that mode then nothing can extracted.

For non-commercial usage I believe so. You can read more about it here: developers.google.com/maps/documentation/tile

i had to close Blender before installing Simplygon

Turn on caption 😂