Ability to 'highlight' a 3D model (like with 3D buildings layer in Google Earth)

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What should this feature enhancement do?

Currently there's no way I know of to be able to click and select a 3D
model for the purposes of relocating it by dragging or other means. In the
disneyland content in google earth you can click models to open dialog
balloons. The model also changes color when you drag the mouse over it. 

Are there any known workarounds that produce the similar results?

The only way I managed to figure out to do this is to output the models to
a textbox list. Far from an ideal solution and essentially unusable.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alex%geo...@gtempaccount.com on 16 Dec 2008 at 8:57

• Merged into: #123

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Original comment by api.roman.public@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2008 at 7:03

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This is slightly different from
http://code.google.com/p/earth-api-samples/issues/detail?id=123. I believe the 
only
extra functionality that would satisfy this feature request would be the 
ability to
'highlight' 3D models. Dragging should be possible as soon as request 123 is 
completed.

Original comment by api.roman.public@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2008 at 7:30

• Changed title: Ability to 'highlight' a 3D model (like with 3D buildings layer in Google Earth)
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Selecting 3D models would be most beneficial. 

Original comment by jeditri...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2008 at 9:54

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Does Google Earth have 3D buildings?

Original comment by alvinduo...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2009 at 2:29

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Guess this one is closed by API version 1.007, not #123

ge.getOptions().setBuildingSelectionEnabled(true)   
ge.getOptions().setBuildingHighlightingEnabled(true)  

Original comment by pbreuck...@googlemail.com on 30 Nov 2010 at 7:19

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Nope, that only lets you select BUILDINGS, and only returns info from the 
google 3d warehouse. 

It doesn't fix this issue, wherein clicking on a model should cause the GE 
viewer to say, call a callback with a model id, so you can support arbitrary 3D 
picking, and write more interactive tools.

Common Google, support this!

Original comment by daniel.a...@gmail.com on 2 Mar 2011 at 8:43

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I'm going to merge this issue with Issue 123. While they are slightly different 
-- as Roman noted (long ago) -- the implementations are in fact coming together 
and (as noted by the latest comments), 123 is what is really needed here.

Original comment by bcke...@google.com on 28 Jun 2011 at 9:24

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