Aerial Plan View - Looking for Tips Tricks

[Anonymous]

Here is an open question,

I am looking to do a building site illustration. I don't want it to be 3D rendered, but I do want that type of look. I have a 2d drawn jpeg that I could drag and drop the imagery onto.

Does anyone know of shortcuts for TOP-DOWN entourage in color, perhaps ready made for PhotoShop? Trees, cars, asphalt, concrete. That type of thing.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Hi Mark,

You can make your own entourage cutouts by just photorendering top down views of various ArchiCAD library parts onto a white background. (If AC 9 did alpha backgrounds 'right' this would be even easier for Photoshop ... or use an older version of AC that does mask the background image.) So, you can get plants, trees, people, etc.

Why not do the whole thing in ArchiCAD? Apply your site JPEG as a texture onto a slab at-scale. Then place your 3D ArchiCAD stuff on top, and render the whole thing from above? For your asphalt, just draw another slab over the needed area in the image. To do that, place the JPEG image with the Image tool also in plan - and scale it to match the slab. Then you can draw/trace onto the image there ... and in photorendering, the site shows up (texture on slab) and the driveway/etc should be aligned perfectly with your image. (I'm assuming since you said JPEG that these things aren't modeled yet.)

If you have Piranesi, doing site plans is pretty easy, and Pir comes with some top view plant images (just a few). Any image is easily used as a cutout, and can be elevated and cast a shadow. 3D models (3DS, etc.) can be placed in Piranesi, too.

Piranesi comes with concrete and asphalt textures, but can use any image. So, if you don't go the ArchiCAD route above, just use any ArchiCAD texture image to paint with in Photoshop or Piranesi...

Here's a Piranesi example from their gallery:
http://www.informatix.co.uk/piranesi/gallery/webster.jpg

Some ideas...

Karl

[Anonymous]

Thanks Karl, maybe I could start with a high resolution image of the actual site, via Earth Google. Arrg, no Mac version.

Ivan seems to have the technique perfected. Maybe he will say how he accomplished some of this:

http://www.vuejardin.com/

[fuzzytnth3]

Google Map works ok with Mac OS X 10.4.2 are you on an earlier version?

[Scott Bulmer]

Burginger wrote:

Ivan seems to have the technique perfected. Maybe he will say how he accomplished some of this: http://www.vuejardin.com/

I apologize that I do not know who Ivan is and assume he is vuejardin, but the images presented at his web site are nothing less than phenomenal (IMO). I simply cannot post any of our examples after seeing this, so we are very hopeful that Ivan will share his secrets with this group. What software, techniques, etc.
Thanks

[Anonymous]

Scott,

Ivan hasn't posten in a while but he Models with AC and renders Vray.. Here is a sort of tutorial he posted a while back..

http://www.vuejardin.com/ArchVray/

Scott, Ivan is exceptional so don't feel bad. He makes one simply shut up and get to improving our skills.

[Anonymous]

The question is,... is it PhotoShop or 3D Render??

I sent a PM to Ivan, maybe he will let us know.

If this was during plan development I wouldn't want to model, but even PhotoShop would take a while.

[Anonymous]

fuzzytnth3 wrote:
Google Map works ok with Mac OS X 10.4.2 are you on an earlier version?

I didn't know about the beta Google Map, it isn't quite the same as Google Earth but interesting.

[Anonymous]

Hello to all of you

Ok on My web MASTER PLANS is simple render elements who is make wit the shadows in ALPHA channel and after that make the position in PHOTO SHOP

that is the TREES; CARS and other some times i make real 3D render of the house some times i not have time for that and i make just photo shop texture work from 2D ArchiCAD planes

if somebody want I can see to make some tuts for.

ok

if somebody want to see what i make one year will be welcome

http://www.chaosgroup.com/gallery/

http://www.kochorite.com/en/index.html

http://www.5th-degree.com/proj8.html

http://www.5th-degree.com/proj12.html

and 3 more not finish project i not have wrights to show 😞

bay for now

[Steve Jepson]

Thanks IvanG for posting those great links.

is this near one of your projects? http://www.bulgariandreams.com/property/cedarheights3_pamporovo/pictures/ch_real3_lg.jpg