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August 31, 2007
Google Earth Sky 3D Animation - Han Solo Escapes
Here's a little Friday fun. Although the new Sky mode from Google Earth 4.2 is designed to look up at the night sky - and doesn't have the ability to tilt your view like Google Earth - it is still a 3D view. So, I decided to add some 3D to Sky. Naturally, I decided to play with something from the Star Wars universe. So, I grabbed a nice model I found in the Google 3D Warehouse. Using SketchUp, I was able to place the model into Google Earth (with a bit of altitude) and then switch to Sky view. This showed the model, but it needed something else to show off the model. So, I asked Joey Wade, who has done lots of time animations with Google Earth, to create an animation with the model. He quickly agreed, and now you can see this cool 3D Sky animation which I'm calling "Han Solo Escapes 
". After it loads in GE, switch to Sky view. Then double-click on the "Sky3d" folder in your Temporary Places. Then turn on the time animation by clicking on the right-arrow "play" button next to the time slider. Open the "Sky3d" folder and play with the different camera views while the animation is playing. Hope you like it!
Thanks to Joey Wade for doing the animation, and to IDW who posted the model to the 3DWarehouse.
Posted by FrankTaylor at August 31, 2007 9:00 AM
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Posted by: Giasen at August 31, 2007 11:28 AM
cannot open file...
"not well-formed (invalid token)"
Posted by: Frank at September 3, 2007 1:05 PM
very cool
Posted by: Greg at May 24, 2008 12:23 PM
Hi there. Have fun with my Falcon model.
Posted by: IDW at August 26, 2008 4:37 PM
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Very cool. Can't wait to see the death star explode in google sky... ;)