Workflow with SketchUp and surrounding Terrain needed to be shown?

[peterdrummer]

Hello Guys,
I have a Project, in which I want to show the surrounding landscape. Like in the Screenshots: The Screenshot of the final Rendering I did with Lumion and the Terrain outside the Building came from OSM automatically with the heighmaps. The other Screenshot shows the hilly Terrain of my new Project (made in Lumion). The Bulding I´m working on will be placed in that landscape.

I noticed, that the OSM-Import inside D5 does not came with heighmaps, everything is flat. But I need that hilly terrain. So what can I do? Going back to Lumion?
I of course want work with D5, but I don´t know how to manage the hilly landscape.

[Clov]

Hi @peterdrummer

Please try using D5’s terrain tool; you can also import a height map.

• Full Instruction : How to use Terrain? | User Manual

[peterdrummer]

Thx Clov, but I need the Sat-Image, Streets, Water, some Buildings etc…
I started this Topic, because I thought other Users have already figured out, how to prep all this stuff and use it in D5 (cause it does not come out of the box within D5).
But it seems, that no other User needs/use this stuff…

[Clov]

Hi @peterdrummer

This is currently a limitation of OSM in D5.

• You can post this in the Ideas and Requests category for our development team to notice

[peterdrummer]

Thx again Clov!
but meanwhile I noticed, that there is a Feature in SektchUp called “Add Location”. First Test: This is all I need!