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If you haven’t seen the first post, I showed how you can import anywhere you want in the world from Google Earth in Beam!
The downside is, not all areas have high quality photogrammetry coverage.

Solution? You can make one yourself using this tutorial:

Converting Google street view to equirectangular images:
How to download a 360 image from street view

I used a total of roughly 30 images going through this street for proof of concept (it only took 5 minutes processing time) but you could do a much larger area with more images. I plan to work on a larger high res model of my town when I have more capacity after my summer exams.

Creating a photogrammetry model with these spherical images in metashape:
How to transform any 360-degree video into 3D (using photogrammetry)

I then exported this to Blender (as obj) and flattened the road using the smoothing modifier, acting just on the vertex group I selected for the road.

And then simply export as a collada to your BeamNG map folder (Blender 4.1 or earlier) and make sure to tick apply modifiers.

Any questions let me know

Total time for this section of street was roughly 45 minutes and it came out rather well I think!

I have linked below a direct side by side comparison of the result that you would get from: (1) MapNG, (2) Google Earth, (3) Google Street view.

Also what do you think of my automation build? It’s a group A Rally car based on the Toyota Celica gt4 safari rally, and a Ford RS200. I learned a lot while making it - automation is a great game!

Thank you all for your interest and I hope this inspires you to model your own towns or anywhere in the world.

Hi, I am not sure if this is the right sub for this question but I would really appreciate any insight anyone can give in a few questions I have about the integrated masters programme at these three Universities which I am deciding between:

1 - What is the student support like - lecture quality and interactivity, problem sheets quality and opportunity to discuss solutions with tutors etc...

2 - Is there much opportunity to engage with research from an early level? e.g. attending seminars

3 - It is also worth considering reputation of the course and degree both internationally and in academic circles - how is Edinburgh's degree viewed in comparison with equivalent integrated masters courses in Theoretical Physics at Durham or Manchester (UoM I get the sense is geared towards engineering and applied Physics)?

* Only relevant for University of Edinburgh *
4 - I am considering direct entry to second year. (a few questions about this)Would I miss out on a valuable opportunity to study electives in computational physics, computer science and other courses that would open up advanced courses later in the degree. I am also aware that some transfer schemes e.g. Caltech do not accept direct entry students - is this applicable in my case? What is the workload like for direct entry?

Please do direct me elsewhere if there are other more appropriate communities to gather information. Thank you for all for your time!

I photo scanned my town from Google Street View 360 images (Update on my town imported from Google Earth)

Road rally through Central London in my Fiesta (imported from Google Earth)

I put my town in BeamNG from Google Earth!!

Edinburgh, Manchester or Durham Theoretical Physics MPhys?