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MSFS20 Google to Blender?

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Hi there - been away from scenery design and came back to find this thread - so:
Any views on constructing textured 3-D models from google-maps into Blender?
I've seen a few YouTube videos showing how it can be done, but would like to know if anyone in fsdeveloper has tried this approach?
Also some concerns about copyright - not for personal use, I guess, but wouldn't want to get 'litigated'!
Great to be back - no worries if no feedback, but thanks if there is any!
Cheers - Dai.
 
You can use ModelConverterX to convert google models (collada i remember) to GLTF. and import GLTF in blender.
Appart from copyright concerns, often, thoses models are full of faces with multiples small textures. There are not created for game optimisation (multi-LOD) smalls vertex, smalls numbers of textures, etc.

But sometime, i use some of thoses models as a reference, to build my model with correct shape/proportion.
 
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