DroneSiteBuilder Enterprise v1.1 — One-Click Drone-Photo to 3D Site Assembly for 3ds Max and Blender

Hi Everyone, 😊

I have just published 🚀 **DroneSiteBuilder Enterprise v1.2 — now with Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles support.**
DroneSiteBuilder comes packaged/bundled with CameraMatch AutoSetup Studio license, fully integrated with Geobuild and CameraMatch AutoSetup scripts/plugins.

One click. A folder of drone photos. A complete 3D site in 3ds Max and Blender — including, as of v1.2, **Google's official photogrammetric mesh of the area** as an alternative to the DEM + satellite + OSM stack.

The traditional pipeline (Adobe Lightroom + Global Mapper + NOAA LiDAR + manual camera matching) takes **6–8 hours per site**. DroneSiteBuilder does it in **about 90 seconds**.

Drop a folder of drone photos in → click one button → walk away.

You come back to a 3ds Max or Blender scene containing:

🆕 **NEW in v1.2 — Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles** (opt-in): tick one checkbox and the pipeline fetches Google's photogrammetric mesh — terrain, textures and buildings baked into a single georeferenced .glb — covering the entire drone bbox. Same data you see in Google Earth, imported straight into 3ds Max or Blender. Detail slider from near-Google-Earth quality to fast preview. Free up to 1,000 root-tileset requests/month with your own Google Maps API key.

✅ Subdivided terrain + satellite drape (USGS 3DEP or OpenTopography, both free)
✅ Extruded OSM buildings + road network sized by class
✅ Full land-features layer: forest, parks, water, fences, 3D place-name labels, POI markers
✅ One renderer-aware camera per photo — VRayPhysicalCamera / CoronaCam / Physical — positioned from XMP, oriented via vanishing-point detection
✅ Automatic NOAA GEOID18 vertical-datum correction so cameras land at the right Z

📂 **What to drop into the folder:**
✔️ Original **DNG** or **JPEG** files straight from the drone (Skydio, DJI, Autel, Parrot, or any drone embedding XMP)
✔️ Mixed DNG + JPEG in the same folder is fine
✔️ File names must end in digits (e.g. S1002276.DNG works, final_shot.DNG does not)

❌ **Do NOT use:**
✖️ PNG or TIFF re-exports — these formats strip the XMP metadata DroneSiteBuilder relies on
✖️ Photos run through a converter that drops GPS / IMU tags
✖️ Screenshots or social-media downloads of drone photos

A single .ms file, one activation, bundling **DroneSiteBuilder** (orchestrator), **GeoBuild v1.3** (standalone-usable for any address worldwide, now with its own Google 3D Tiles path), and **CameraMatch v6.1.8**.

📌 3ds Max 2020+Blender on Windows. V-Ray, Corona, Arnold, Scanline, ART.
📌 Reads XMP from Skydio, DJI, Autel, Parrot.
📌 **Existing CameraMatch Studio licence keys activate the full Enterprise bundle — Studio holders do not pay twice.**

Full manual free to download on my blog.

https://jamiecardoso-mentalray.blogspot.com/2026/03/dronesitebuilder-enterprise-v12-one.html

I hope you find it useful.

Cheers

Jamie