Google Building Maker

[nayibed]

Apparently easy, I want to try do

[DnsssChocolate]

lol its like SimCity :)

[makeiteasyable]

nice.

[Bunnehsayroar]

Whenever i download it it says i have to download it again help please!

[CpSkull32302]

It's a little hard

[BINWEEVILShenry325]

nice



[MrJohnking2]

I am new to google earth, but this has to be the best thing ever thus far. No limits, as far as I can see.

[xXJustinBernardXx]

slave to the google

[234689ify]

but yeah this is freakin epik

[234689ify]

google earth reminds me of a bad graphiced game LOL

[29riteshkakkar]

nice work.

but how to watch earth in3D??

[kxmode]

This is like Spore!

[josipbabok2]

Great tutorial i started building my own city in middle of nowhere xD

[DINGDONG864]

@josipbabok2

ur just ruining it

[3x3qui3lxd]

No puedo poner bien los edificios me sale corrida la imágen del edificio ¿que hago?

[discjockeydado]

Why aren't there any cities from the former Yugoslavia available... I mean, Budapest and Athens are available and some cities in Italy as well, but what's with the former Yugoslavia. You could add Zagreb or Belgrade or Ljubljana... I don't see why not.

[Filipdragi]

@discjockeydado I agree, ADD BELGRADE, SERBIA PLEASE!!

[LazarTheMaster]

@Filipdragi Yes, add BELGRADE!! Come on Google!

[SkateborderX12]

DAMN YOU GOOGLE EARTH!i can even move my block!it dissapears!

[JekaZMD]

When will our poor ass countries have air footage? Come on Google, I want to make some buildings for Moldova!

[simsfreak555]

Woah, thats actually very easy, nice work, google!

[SwissVIP]

I don't understand the sence of it. Aren't there all buildings in 3D yet? Or is that only for a "shop" for more Informations?

[NyckBossBz]

in Romania when I can create 3D buildings?????? :((

[Mrcommenter24]

yeah !!!! But Still HAve 1 question : each year we have to download a new version !! coz I think that The world will change ( :

[yoimdevil587238]

Guys, you have this all wrong "Building Maker" is a beginner's tool. The next step is "Google SketchUp" Which is for more advanced users.

[ak2000000000]

wwwwow amazing

[MsSomeonenew]

Great tool this

But now I know why Sketchup became the neglected child in the Google family :(

[legendp2011]

I think I will just wait 10 years when google earth will probably look like crysis. and hopefully one day you will be able to download all of google earth (I Don't care if it's 10000 terabytes) I am just tired of waiting 15 minutes for an image to load. (stupid 100kb/s a second)

[mircea93cj]

i need the plug-in, pls. link

[02Balanata20]

awsome

[QuaseAnjos100]

Muito legal o video



[ENDORPHINSAM]

Im making Buildings Online... Is there anyway to download this and Do it on my PC and not in my Web-Browser??

[Jesipr]

@ENDORPHINSAM Let me know if you get a response. I want this too!

[RandomWatchStudios]

@ENDORPHINSAM If you spend ages in Google Sketch-up... yes. But that's gonna take forever.

[maquina563]

gregorio souza

[youowntv]

Why can't I make them for buildings in New York?

[whobonesyou]

This is cool and fun. I'm making buildings for my neighborhood

[17377584]

@whobonesyou how did you do it im trying to do it

[ShakeNBake2261]

Cool Idea! :)

[BIGBROTHERiswatchinU]

It would appear that you can only build models for certain preselected cities that Google has placed on a pick list. Someone let me know if I am wrong about this, but it appears that if you do not live in one of those large cities on the list, you cannot make a model of your community.

[hack26]

Only certain locations are available because they need multiple aerial images from different angles of the location. Hopefully more will be available soon...

[michaelm2010]

@BIGBROTHERiswatchinU "Modeling Guide" .pdf document, which explains the process of photographing your building and then using Google Sketchup and other tools to create the model. I'm new to this realm, but believe that the Google Building Maker is simply a tool to quickly automate the creation of models and then add them to Google Earth. However, it requires viewing the photo in Google Earth to work.

[michaelm2010]

@BIGBROTHERiswatchinU Finally, using the manual model-creation techniques instead of Building Maker allows for greater freedom, flexibility and accuracy in designing life-like appearing models, as long as basic design rules are followed (file size, number of polygons, properly representing the building dimensions, etc.). I hope this helps answer your inquiry.

[Victoriaonline29]

you can make a futrue building.

[JoseJimeniz]

You're free to use Google Earth and Sketchup to create a structure. Then you can add it to the Warehouse; it might get accepted to be part of Google Earth's building library.

[uberkrunkninjagod]

n e 1 know how to make custom buildings?

[realisticHomeboy]

use google sketchup

[uberkrunkninjagod]

this is hard as shit unless the builing is a perfect square

[cybrbeast]

No, you can make irregular shapes with many corners if you just find the right button.

[Exoskull969]

lol naa its pretty easy to make somthing odd shaped it might not be 100% perfect but it will be good

[khmohsin]

seems nice

[gms8994]

Still upset that this doesn't work on Linux :(

[kimtumtu]

Google Building Maker looks very smart and it seems to be perfect for newbies. thanks google for another great tool.

[nukemoose]

Where can we go to post questions to the BuidlingMaker team?

[nukemoose]

I found that if I constrain only the absolutely best visible points that the model building is easier and seems to be more accurate. I agree with mdbrazilian; it would be far better for Google to give us access to the aerial imagery and let us use Sketchup to model. I tried to improve one of my models in SU, but not having the imagery makes it impossible to do. Each block I created in BuildingMaker has its own texture, so it can't be used in SU when I merge blocks into a single block.

[ndubcameron]

why dont you guys have New Waterford,Nova Scotia ???

[Peerweb]

It's quite hard to make those buildings. I tried to make one random in Budapest and it was quite hard. I'm a little sad though that it's not that many cities that have been included.

[nukemoose]

I have made a number of models already. It's easy to do, but it is a bit fiddly at times. I wish that I had more control over things but perhaps that will come in time. I also wish I knew where to send feedback because I have a number of ideas and questions for the Buildingmaker team.

One frustrating thing that happens is that when I am working on one part of a model, it can have negative effects on other parts of the model. Maybe that's just me using the tool incorrectly, but I'm not sure.

[TB674]

wtf?!?!?!

it cant be that easy!!

[SpongebobDI]

lol... goggle makes us work for them with a game-like job... nice

[fixer11]

@SpongebobDI LET'S YOU work for "us" IF you desire. Nobody makes anyone do a thing. The public is who benefits here...(that's you and I). I also think you can opt out of any tedious work they are bombarding with. It's somewhere in one of those contract clauses.

[stevenhibbs]

Google will rule the world lol. I actually really like all these new projects they are unveiling. Can't wait to check out the Chrome OS.

[uarhara]

Let us praise Google. O Google... ...Ooh, You are so big... ...So absolutely huge. Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You. Forgive us, O Google, for? this, our dreadful toadying, And barefaced flattery. But You are so strong and, well, just so super. Amen.

[FMB21]

click! nice channel! nice tool!

[imadipsticklike]

There are loads of views but so little comments? o.O

[greenYoshi4500]

This looks so easy and cool! Im gonna build my house with it!

Thnx google!¤§¥¿

[Sweasy26]

Really good!

[dan325013]

Haha, with things like this Google doesn't even have to have people model buildings, they just have users do it for them, very cool!

[hemppainen]

Doesn't work on Linux :(

[Kinglevel]

after that... we need an google earth plugin for flight simulator!!! just imagine how cool that could be with nvidia vision!?? cruising on a high altitude and just make an dive into a city block

[hijlo]

Go to GE, then click crtl+A

[imadipsticklike]

Google Earth already has a flight simulator.

[mdbrazilian]

Google 'choose a model' for me in "Building Maker", when I clicked in "View", I saw that this same model already exist in GE layer. Is it a fail?

I wasted my time in my 1st model. I prefer Google SU to building.

But I have a tip: Where is the function (Copy and Paste)?

[nukemoose]

Google will make the "best" model the official model, so if yours is more detailed and accurate, it will be chosen. I agree with you about the Copy/Paste command. Some buildings have several A/C units on them, all the same...why should you have to model all of them? Model one of them, Copy/Paste and position all of the rest. Maybe it's a feature to be found in future versions.

[mdbrazilian]

You said:

"One frustrating thing that happens is that when I am working on one part of a model, it can have negative effects on other parts of the model... etc."

No, this thing really happens .

Other tools such as circle n arc are also missing. How to make a round roof? Only in SU this is possible.

Would be easier to have the aerial images of the Building Maker and use the SU to model them. this would be much faster.

[AviArunLive]

Google is supposed to do this to Google Earth. But because they don't have enough time, they're making us do this. Work without Salary, very nice.

[jussing]

Duh. How big a staff would they need to model all the buildings in the world? This is the only way to do it. Plus, by having users do it, they're sure that whatever buildings the users want first, *will* come first - Google doesn't have to decide where to start. And why complain, it's still free to use. Making a building or two isn't going to ruin you.

[Fermata101]

@jussing i think he meant it as a joke :)

[AlecEmpire]

...and the best thing is - it´s FREE ...for Google.

Why hire people when there is a lot of simple minded web surfer out there who are thrilled to do the job for free. The day will come when YOUR job is done for free by some one else!

[mofotronimus]

regardless, i love google! and i'll probably take part in this

[cowswirl]

In this video, what city where they working on?

[colindhowell]

San Francisco. (Though the initial zoom was on New York City.)

[elpresidio]

Wow Google! Incredible scaling tool!  I can imagine whole citiscapes being built in a day!

[negroriginal]

Absolutely amazing! Looks easy - I have to try it!

[nils169]

woooooooooooow

[jhtrico1850]

That's cooool.

[lamtsite]

Ah, requires the "plugin" which is essentially all of google earth (again) so bloatware - so not bloody likely.

[Sterfgeval]

amazingly smart! Everyone will make his own house/office in 3d eventually.