Google Maps 3D: Data into Blender

Описание: UPDATE - July 2024 - I can confirm this is working with:
Blender 4.1.1
RenderDoc 1.31
MapsModelImporter 0.7.0

In order to enable 'Inject into Process' in newer versions of RenderDoc you need to go into:
Tools - Settings - General - 'Enable process injection'
and restart the app.

In this video I show you how to extract 3D data from Google Maps using RenderDoc and the amazing MapsModelsImporter by Élie Michel. Please consider donating on his Github page if you find this process useful:
https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsMod...

This is the text that you need to add to the Chrome shortcut 'target' field to run it in debug mode (delete the existing contents beforehand):

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0 && START "" ^"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe^" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog --disable_direct_composition=1"

or

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0 && START "" ^"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe^" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog --disable_direct_composition=1"

If your Chrome is installed in a different location to the one above you may need to go in and change parts of this text.

You can download the MapsModelmporter addon here:
https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsMod...

You can download RenderDoc here:
https://renderdoc.org/

You can see a tutorial on cleaning up the mesh here:
   • Google Maps 3D: Photogrammetry Mesh Clean-up  

You can see Elie’s original video here:
   • Importing Actual 3D Models From Google Maps  

You can download Blender here:
https://www.blender.org/download/

Donate to Élie here:
https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsMod...

You can see how to use Blender GIS here:
   • Blender GIS  

Thanks also to Bjørn Terje Hansebråten who recommended this process to me in the Blender GIS comments.