Hi all,
Has anyone been able to render 3D building with mapserver?
I have a polygon layer with the building outlines and a height attribute.
Any thoughts on how to render nice buildings like Google does?
I can preprocess the data and extrude it into 3D shapes, but I'm not
sure that gets me anywhere.
My one thought was to draw the polygon, then draw it again with an xy
offset based on a function of the height. But this does not generate the
vertical edges of the building.
I suppose I could generate all the vertical faces and the top of the
build and then sort them all based on the z value of the centroid. I
could event remove all the back facing polygons faces.
It would be cool if mapserver had:
LAYER
TYPE POLYGON3D
HEIGHT [height]
...
END
Thoughts?
-Steve W
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