Earth maps

[rolland1013]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to Terragen 2.  But I have to say that I'm very impressed with what the program can do.  I'm wondering if a data set exists for Earth.  I'm sure this questions has come up and been answered a million times before.  But since I'm new I'm hoping someone will humor me and point me in the right direction

Thanks,
Niel

[Kadri]

There are many topics try to search the forum.
This came up for example : http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=6292.msg66470#msg66470
Have fun , Niel !
Cheers.

[dandelO]

Try these, the best publicly available maps of the Earth on the Earth... http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2363

The Blue Marble next generation images are the best you're ever going to find, for now. If you need high res' imagery, go for the 21,600x10,800px .tif images. I hope you have memory enough to utilise them.

To map them to a planet node in TG, use a 'spherical' projection in an image map shader, with the same position coord's as the planet you're applying them to.