TG2 + The Blue Marble

[dandelO]

Probably one of the last from me this year. Just playing around with some Blue Marble resources from Visible Earth.

I used four 21600x10800px maps of the Earth; Colour, topography, bathymetry and night-lights on this TG planet with no problems.
I did have a fifth map loaded(cloud cover@8192x4096px) which also worked fine but I didn't like the result of the pattern. I just used fractals for the clouds, which I'm pleased to note, did not suffer the 'terminator cut-off bug'.
I think, if you keep the 3D cloud layer low enough to the surface, the cut-off line isn't a problem. The cloud base min' here is 250m above the ground and no terminator problems. When I was testing I was finding the bug when my cloud base min' was above 1000m.
* I'm not certain that this is the solution but it's working here, anyway.

[attachimg=#]

Cheers for looking!

[blackcat]

Spectacular on all counts! Congratulations!

[dandelO]

Cheers, Blackcat.

* I must point out again. I just love how TG accepts anything I can throw at it. Those are some huge maps I used and not even a flinch.
Same with objects, no other 3D app' I own or have used munches models as well as TG2 does. Most other app's take an absolute age to load large files or, will just crumble and crash at 99%. Bravo, PS!

[Henry Blewer]

I am quite impressed. More so when I read the text with the image. Great render!

[Dune]

Impressive image. Imagine what it would be like to see this in reality............................. (I'm visualizing). Should there not be just a little light on the dark side of earth? And where did you get those images you mentioned? I can't seem to find them in the Blue Marble site, just the east and west globes.

[dandelO]

Cheers, folks.

The images can be found in the 'Blue Marble' section in the right hand sidebar sub-menu named 'collections'. Or, just click this. http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2363

There is a little light on the dark side but I'm typing this on someone elses computer and I can see why you'd say that sitting here. It looks very dark now too. I can just see the lights in N/S America. On my own computer it looked a little brighter.

Thanks!

[freelancah]

Great work dandel0! I've tried some of those myself and was surprised as you how easily they worked.

Also similiar data sets of mars: http://www.mars.asu.edu/data/
There were data of the moon too but couldn't find them for now..

-edit: dandel0 was faster in linking but I'l leave the mars sets here

[Onyx]

Fine work , very nice

[choronr]

Seeing this image invokes the thoughts of how small we are in this endless universe; how many more places like this exist? Thank you for creating this wonderful image.