In Building Maker, you guide this little box wireframe onto the photos - it's all set up in auto-perspective, so the dragging of the guides is easy. Then you flip though other images and you reposition your box shape to match the new view. It is very intelligent and requires very little skill. Well, maybe I say that because I am used to working from Sketchup, where you can screw it up easy. Once you rotate through all the views, you can export your model and it does all the work placing your image on the shape!
Now – this is relevant to Bushwick because there is no satellite imagery available in Building Maker for Bushwick. That's why there are no buildings in that area on GE. Once images are released, then the hordes from all over the Earth, in between fixing email programs, can make buildings very simply, without taking the photos, stitching them together, building the model point by point, and then fixing the images on. What a massive difference in the process.
However, I have found that I can use Building Maker in this case to get sharper images than the ones I'd been using! I was screen-shooting Building Maker images and applying them myself, but this means there is a watermark on the image. By using the program as designed, DUH, the watermark is removed, and time is saved, and in some cases (not all - some of my images are better) you will get a snappy result. So there are a few more steps before I'm done with the Flamingo.
Another note, again, this is why Flamingo Towers remains unbuilt on GE. No one has been able to put it together in Building Maker alone. The Deodorant–Shaped tower prevents a simple geometry and convincing application of the satellite photo. I've done the internet research to find better photos, and I have the photoshop skills to flatten out the curves convincingly.
So once again, "final" is the worst word to use on a project.
