PBR'ing Use Google Street View for Added Realism

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Here is an easy quick way to add additional realism to your PBR model.

 

- Go to Google maps and capture a street view, used snipping tool.

- Place a Polyline Solid in the background and apply the captured Google Street view as a texture.

- Scale and shift accordingly to get the right position and proportions.

- Run a PBR with it and save pic. Run another PBR without it and save pic.

- Drop both into Photoshop and erase out the unwanted Google Sky.

 

1st PBR Scene - no Google Street view.

 

2nd PBR Scene - with Google Street view.

 

Final Scene - Combined with Google Street view sky erased.