I'm using Google Earth in Web-development but I'm facing a weird situation, this is a simple code from the google code playground and it loads a 3D model into a google earth, if I refresh the page it wont load the model again, http://savedbythegoog.appspot.com/?id=7f8638b214605a2327af223c613a6ae13874416b
Is there any way to fix it.
I'm facing with one more problem of loading the 3D models in Internet Explorer 8 in 32 bit XP machine, IE8 doesn't load the 3d model in google earth, you can check the link given. I'm also posting the js code below.
Please Help
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1 /DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Google Earth API Sample</title>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=ABQIAAAAuPsJpk3MBtDpJ4G8cqBnjRRaGTYH6UMl8mADNa0YKuWNNa8VNxQCzVBXTx2DYyXGsTOxpWhvIG7Djw" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function addSampleButton(caption, clickHandler) {
var btn = document.createElement('input');
btn.type = 'button';
btn.value = caption;
if (btn.attachEvent)
btn.attachEvent('onclick', clickHandler);
else
btn.addEventListener('click', clickHandler, false);
// add the button to the Sample UI
document.getElementById('sample-ui').appendChild(btn);
}
function addSampleUIHtml(html) {
document.getElementById('sample-ui').innerHTML += html;
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var ge;
google.load("earth", "1");
function init() {
google.earth.createInstance('map3d', initCallback, failureCallback);
// addSampleButton('Create a 3D Model!', buttonClick);
}
function initCallback(instance) {
ge = instance;
ge.getWindow().setVisibility(true);
// add a navigation control
ge.getNavigationControl().setVisibility(ge.VISIBILITY_AUTO);
// add some layers
ge.getLayerRoot().enableLayerById(ge.LAYER_BORDERS, true);
ge.getLayerRoot().enableLayerById(ge.LAYER_ROADS, true);
var la = ge.getView().copyAsLookAt(ge.ALTITUDE_RELATIVE_TO_GROUND);
la.setRange(100000);
ge.getView().setAbstractView(la);
create3dModel();
document.getElementById('installed-plugin-version').innerHTML =
ge.getPluginVersion().toString();
}
function failureCallback(errorCode) {
}
function create3dModel() {
// Create a 3D model, initialize it from a Collada file, and place it
// in the world.
var placemark = ge.createPlacemark('');
placemark.setName('model');
var model = ge.createModel('');
ge.getFeatures().appendChild(placemark);
var loc = ge.createLocation('');
model.setLocation(loc);
var link = ge.createLink('');
// A textured model created in Sketchup and exported as Collada.
link.setHref('http://earth-api-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/' +
'static/splotchy_box.dae');
model.setLink(link);
var la = ge.getView().copyAsLookAt(ge.ALTITUDE_RELATIVE_TO_GROUND);
loc.setLatitude(la.getLatitude());
loc.setLongitude(la.getLongitude());
placemark.setGeometry(model);
la.setRange(300);
la.setTilt(45);
ge.getView().setAbstractView(la);
}
function buttonClick() {
create3dModel();
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="init()" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border: 0;">
<div id="sample-ui"></div>
<div id="map3d" style="width: 500px; height: 380px;"></div>
<br>
<div>Installed Plugin Version: <span id="installed-plugin-version" style="font-weight: bold;">Loading...</span></div>
</body>
</html>
If that links doesn't work copy the code and paste it in a text file and rename it to .html and then execute it.
Even I had faced the same problem with collada models and internet explorer, the code u have given is working fine in rest of the browsers like chrome and mozilla.
check out this link, but in this case they are loading a kml file and not directly loading collada models into the browser using javascript.