Exporting from Max8 to Google Earth

Rendermedia · July 26th, 2007

I have a z model of a city centre from a client, and when it imports into max it comes in the correct xy location, If I import this into google Earth would it appear in the correct xy space, I have seen a few tutorials on gettign 3d models into google Earth and they all mention placing a marker on the texture by eye, where as a XY reference would be more accurate right?

Second question how do you get models from max8 into Google Earth?

Kind regards
Mark

ipxstudios · July 26th, 2007

I export my models from Max into Sketch-up and save out in the google file format. It will keep the right xyz coordinates if you do it that way. The free version of sketch-up should work.

ash_work · July 30th, 2007

Take a look at the 3D cities on Google earth. You may get some ideas.

July 26th, 2007	#1 (permalink)
Rendermedia Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Swindon Age: 34 Posts: 42 Name: Mark Miles	Exporting from Max8 to Google Earth I have a z model of a city centre from a client, and when it imports into max it comes in the correct xy location, If I import this into google Earth would it appear in the correct xy space, I have seen a few tutorials on gettign 3d models into google Earth and they all mention placing a marker on the texture by eye, where as a XY reference would be more accurate right? Second question how do you get models from max8 into Google Earth? Kind regards Mark

July 26th, 2007	#2 (permalink)
ipxstudios Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: San Diego CA Posts: 190 Name: julian boswell	Re: Exporting from Max8 to Google Earth I export my models from Max into Sketch-up and save out in the google file format. It will keep the right xyz coordinates if you do it that way. The free version of sketch-up should work.

July 30th, 2007	#3 (permalink)
ash_work Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: India Posts: 5 Name: Anusha Naveen	Re: Exporting from Max8 to Google Earth Take a look at the 3D cities on Google earth. You may get some ideas.

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