Tutorial 5: Entering Street View and Creating Viewpoints

When your project is bound to have a visual impact on its surroundings, you want to know how that will look? You'd want to be able to engage stakeholders with realistic presentations of potential plans.

That's where Street View comes in, as a powerful feature of EnergyPlanner.

In this video, you'll be learning about entering Street View and how to create viewpoints.

As covered at the beginning of this course. To enter a street view via the context menu, click anywhere on the 2D map or the 3D world and select Street View through the context menu.

You might prefer using the Street View tool selected under the visualize tab, and you'll see these blue roads appear on the 2D map, showing wherever street View is available, wherever you click, whether on the 2D map or the 3D world, you will go to the closest panorama.

When in Street View, you have the option to select from panoramas from the past as well.

In collaboration with Cyclomedia, we've added Cyclorama as a high end addition to Street View. To enter a Cyclorama, click on the Cyclorama icon and click on one of the blue dots on the 2D map. Clicking on one of these will take you to one of these high end Street View extensions. For access to Cyclomedia in your country, please contact us.

Before using a panorama definitively, we must check whether the panorama is aligned correctly with the 3D world. Calibration is what we refer to this process as, and you'll learn about this extensively in the next tutorial. Now let me show you how to save a viewpoint so you can go back to it later in Street View as well as in the 3D world.

The fastest way to do this is to simply click Save as Viewpoint through the quick menu.

It's also possible to save a viewpoint through the viewpoint list. Click on the viewpoint list. Go to the new viewpoint dropdown. Name your viewpoint and click Create Viewpoint.

To leave a Street View Panorama. Click on the cross sign in the top right of the interface. Creating a viewpoint in the 3D world works exactly the two same ways, again via the quick menu by clicking Save as Viewpoint or by going to Visualize Viewpoint List and clicking on the plus icon. There.

You can leave a viewpoint in the 3D world simply by changing position. To reenter a viewpoint, click on the viewpoint marker and select enter. In the context menu.

And of course, you can also reenter your viewpoints through the viewpoint list.

Through the viewpoint settings, it's possible to change the angle of view.

Pitch. And North offset. Fine tuning the view you're looking for.

Please note that you can also change the time and date here if needed.

That's all for this lesson. We hope you now better understand Street View and Creating Viewpoints in EnergyPlanner.