How to create Terrain Maps in Blender

POC activity

  1. Select any portion of a Google Map.
Generate a texture using Google satellite imagery
  2. Generate a height map using elevation data provided online by NASA
  3. Generate 3d Terrain Mesh inside Blender.
  4. Use these meshes as background in our scene.




 Picture of Karakoram Range Terrain Map



 Preliminary Steps

  1. Download Blender GIS add and install in Edit-Preferences-Addon
  2. https://github.com/domlysz/BlenderGIS
  3. Install GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) using brew or pip
  4. Steps -> https://gist.github.com/kelvinn/f14f0fc24445a7994368f984c3e37724
  5. Enable Node Wrangler Add-On
  6.  Load Google BaseMap from GIS Menu

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