Blosm for Blender: Google 3D cities, OpenStreetMap, Terrain Add-On

foreign [Music] [Music] box Channel today we are going to see how you can create or import this 3D building models freely from online using the blossom or formerly known as the blender open street map addon so I'll show you how you can where to download this add-on and how to use it in blender so let's get started so we will start our journey here on this page I'll put the link in the description section so this is where you can get add-on the blossom add-on for blender this will include open street map Google 3D cities and Terrain so this add-on has two versions The Blossom premium version which is a paid one and Blossom the base version that can be downloaded for me so the premium version have extra features like textures that can be imported with it if you can you can also try this one so for today we'll see how we can use the blossom the base version still you can get some terrains and some basic building shapes instantly using this add-on so you can go here and it will open up a page Blossom for blender Google 3D series open street map and turret and you can get this for free if you want you can give some donations to the creators or you can give them some credit also yeah so once you get this let's proceed to the how you can move on to the blender so let's move on to the blender now so open up your blender and then the first thing if you do here is to add to go to edit and preferences so go to edit references add-ons and then install and then you need to specify where you you downloaded your where you downloaded the your add-on the blossom add-on for me I have already done so so I'll show you the blossom yeah here it's already installed so I just need I just need to check this box import export the blossom so make sure you check this box another thing you need to specify the directory to store downloaded open street map entering files so you can specify this where you want to then you want the image to be uploaded so once you gave it some directory then you are all set to go so let me come here press n and here you can see that Blossom add-on is displayed here so before we start let me delete this Cube so here you have various options so the first thing you can do is here press select to specify the area that you want to download now this will launch the your web browser and you can zoom into anywhere you like the area where you can where you want to import the 3D building models in other ways you can also search type your search term for me for instance I'll search burn capacity of Switzerland and also you can click on show selection rectangle option this will put a rectangle where you can select so one thing you need to be careful is the area of these selection should not be like very large unless you are confident that your PC can manage it because the download time will take forever so in my case I will reduce the size looks uh still fairly large size yeah maybe this is enough for me okay so now once you are you have made your selection once you have identified your location you can go back to the blender and here you have the import option so before that you have various options here I'll show you now we are on openstreetmap so let us import the terrain first and click on enter I mean import so the terrain is imported as you can see on the right side on the display section but we are not saying it so let's press the DOT sign all right it looks like it's uh it's out of view so you can go up here to the view section and we can increase the end point of the camera let's say to ten thousand yeah so we have successfully imported our Terrain it has no textures all right so this will be where the 3D building models that we are going to import shortly now are going to be placed all right let's proceed to the blossom add-on we have imported the terrain now let's import the open street map buildings yeah make sure you are on the 3D View so the terrain is the Baseline we are importing buildings if you want you can import what are objects forests other vegetation rods and passes and Railways so I'll just take everything and another option you have down here is import as single object the buildings or maybe I'll uncheck this one so if I uncheck this it will import HP link individually so you can manipulates edits each building separately I think that's more useful okay looks like we are done let's click on import so this will take some time depending on your area of Select oh it took like five seconds I think so my area of selection was small that's why if you selected a bigger area it will take more time so it looks like we have successfully imported the 3D buildings let's go to the material View actually appear and change the settings here looks more clear now so the terrain and we have many things going on around here I don't know what these points are yeah so we can see the what we are selecting so Railways are part of it okay painting is anything selected oh so okay so because we uncheck this so everything is now at individual level this might not be yeah so it's a supported everything so uh week it's uh if you uncheck this it will be useful for the buildings for instance I'm working individually on each building like this one but for the railways for the roads might not be a wise move so we have clear models yeah so this is uh the way that you can import other thing uh yeah it has image overlaying Google 3D style option because but this will be on the paid version so the image overlay means it will add textures to it or instance if I select this option and click on import yeah so it's asking me access to token for dark Chase overlay is not here so you need those keys for the that that's another version so based on the free version this is what you get it's a enough actually it's yeah so this is how you can import free 3D building models from openstreetmap in blender using the blossom add-on so I hope you liked today's tip if you like the video please make sure to like And 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Length: 12min 56sec (776 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 27 2023