orangekid13
Mouseketeer<br>Hmmm, not nice to call someone a li
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- Feb 8, 2007
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I guess Google Earth having 3D WDW is really new, I think even today, I had the 3D buildings layer on Earlier and the only buildings I saw were the Swan/Dolphin.
For those of you who still don't know what Google Earth is, it's a 3d model of the earth that combines satellite and aerial photographs of the earth to allow you to zoom in from a full globe view all the way down to "street view" in some areas that when viewed in google maps, allows you to see which house is the one you're trying to find so you don't have to creep up and down the block looking for house numbers, it's that good.
WDW 3D buildings are photographically correct, not just the right shape and a gray box like many of the 3D buildings in large cities on Google Earth. They've included trees and details down to garbage cans and monorail cars (although there are THREE purple monorails at epcot, one leaving the station, one in the loop, and one about to start the loop... MAPO override much? Demerit's for everyone! (sorry, I'm kinda getting excited about the possibility of being a Monorail Pilot with the college program next spring and have been using my DIS level obsession on that too
) All the other Monorail models are purple too)
Here's the first screenshot I took. I'm not sure how but I got the Mickey head placemarkers and their posts to disappear one of the times I opened it, but now they're back
and it makes the screenshots look bad.
I turned on the 3D buildings, then the sun (it's in the view menu) and set it to 3am today.
Cinderella and Prince Charming are standing on the stairs if you look really close.
Post up your favorite screen captures (use "Copy Image" from the Edit menu (this will hide the controls so they're not in the way) then paste it in an image editing program, save it as a jpg or a bmp if you only have paint).
This is a good way to go sightseeing from home when you miss The World or
For those of you who still don't know what Google Earth is, it's a 3d model of the earth that combines satellite and aerial photographs of the earth to allow you to zoom in from a full globe view all the way down to "street view" in some areas that when viewed in google maps, allows you to see which house is the one you're trying to find so you don't have to creep up and down the block looking for house numbers, it's that good.
WDW 3D buildings are photographically correct, not just the right shape and a gray box like many of the 3D buildings in large cities on Google Earth. They've included trees and details down to garbage cans and monorail cars (although there are THREE purple monorails at epcot, one leaving the station, one in the loop, and one about to start the loop... MAPO override much? Demerit's for everyone! (sorry, I'm kinda getting excited about the possibility of being a Monorail Pilot with the college program next spring and have been using my DIS level obsession on that too
) All the other Monorail models are purple too)Here's the first screenshot I took. I'm not sure how but I got the Mickey head placemarkers and their posts to disappear one of the times I opened it, but now they're back
and it makes the screenshots look bad. I turned on the 3D buildings, then the sun (it's in the view menu) and set it to 3am today.
Cinderella and Prince Charming are standing on the stairs if you look really close.
Post up your favorite screen captures (use "Copy Image" from the Edit menu (this will hide the controls so they're not in the way) then paste it in an image editing program, save it as a jpg or a bmp if you only have paint).
This is a good way to go sightseeing from home when you miss The World or
This is so cool! They even show the horseless bugy. Instead of getting my work done, I can now spend all daying touring WDW.
