3d City – Instant 3d meshes!
Make a 3d city in an instant in your 3d scenes!
This is a really good shortcut if you want to get instant accurate 3d city meshes from around the world. It works particularly well for the main cities like New York. You can use it in your 3d animations and even to print with 3d models. Here is the process, you can see it in the video at the bottom of this page in more detail too –
- Go to Open Street Map http://www.openstreetmap.org/ and then select the area you want ans export as an OSM file. Areas that are too large will not export so if you want a large part of a city, you will have to ‘slot’ together.
- Get OSM2 World Viewer http://osm2world.org/ open the OSM file in that and then export as an .obj file.
- Open the 3d application of your choice, in this case Blender. Then import file, setup lighting. Export into Cura and set up if you want to 3d print it. I found some issues in 3ds Max about import.
You should try this for yourself. Why not do it for a city you like, or the city that you live in? Depending on data from Open Street Map, you will see varying results. If you want to get more ideas and tips about making 3d cities what not book a free 15 minute skype lesson with me http://3dcreativetuition.instapage.com/ just sign up to my newsletter.
If you need some more detailed instructions, you can also follow this tut https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/3D_animation
Please also take into account, that the material is copyleft licensed and you need to credit the OSM community.
Hi thanks for the link. Sure, always credit the OSM community. It is a great job that they are doing!