I'm working on a blue marble project, and I need to set camera views from specific areas of earth, like the Australia west coast, and the Namibia desert.
First of all, I already set up good ol' earth using the blue marble maps, and it looks great, however, I got two major issues that are on my way to get what I need:
- When I go to the chosen locations sunsets look way different than the default location.
- Gimbal locks! It is so hard to navigate the camera from these locations I'm about to give up and animate in another app and import back a fbx...
So my questions are:
- is it better to try to rotate the entire planet to get my location to the default terragen location? (instead of trying to animate my camera from where these locations are situated on the planet). If yes, how?
- is there is a trick to make a sunset consistent (within reason) from different locations across the planet?
- Same about the sun: it is really hard to make it go where it's supposed to be with just an elevation and latitude
- and finally: how to deal with the camera gimbal lock...
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Gianca