Earth

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-02-02 12:51pm

Rendered some pics of earth

http://www.geocities.com/psygnisfive/earth03.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/psygnisfive/earth04.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/psygnisfive/earth05.jpg

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-02-02 01:06pm

BTW if you have trouble with them, add a question mark to the end of the address.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-02-02 01:17pm

Cutting and pasting the link works, geocities requires some tricks to post here. Its been discussed before.

Anwyay, jpg4 is my favorite. It looks pretty nice.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-02-02 02:32pm

i like unusual shots of plants, like the first and last, gives you a sense of how earth isnt just a globe you see from a distance but a huge ball where up is down and left is right. whats why i did the picture with earth at the top, because its counterintuitive, earth is supposed to be at your feet not your head!

Kenny_10_Bellys · Post by **Kenny_10_Bellys** » 2003-02-03 04:22am

Nice stuff, what software was this done in and where'd you get the image maps? Is it from that planetary maps site where the ex-advertising guy has made all the planet and moon maps?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-02-03 09:18am

any 3D program can do this but i used lightwave. the maps are from NASA's Blue Marble site.

Kenny_10_Bellys · Post by **Kenny_10_Bellys** » 2003-02-03 09:21am

Never heard of that one, the maps look a bit better than the ones I have. You got the URL for this place? My Earth is fine for mid shots but the map for close-ups is so large it bursts lightwave and it crashes out. Need more than half a gig of memory I suppose...

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-02-03 05:50pm

They look very realistic...good work!

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-02-03 09:25pm

just search NASA for Blue Marble. They have some huge maps that kill my lightwave even tho i have 512 megs of ram.

Make sure you view everything as wireframe not textured!!