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Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:05:50 AM | Photorealistic Scenery Backgrounds

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If I'm trying to render a house in the mountains at a specific LAT/LON, is there a program that can use DEM data to create a realistic environment to use as a backdrop?

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Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:55:06 PM | Photorealistic Scenery Backgrounds

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If you want it that specific, why not grab the GIS info available for the area and make a topo for the site?  In fact, sketchup can grab a topo from google earth which can then be imported into revit (not recommend because the geography is pretty ugly without modification.

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Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:06:21 PM | Photorealistic Scenery Backgrounds

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The topo is what I'm talking about. I already use google earth which is great for elevations but there's no foliage. Years ago I had a program that could create scenery from the satellite data files but I forgot what it was and there has to be something better by now.

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Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:06:47 AM | Photorealistic Scenery Backgrounds

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I remember reading about the software that you are referring to, but I have not seen anything recently that would produce the same/better results.


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