Probably one of the last from me this year. Just playing around with some Blue Marble resources from Visible Earth (http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/).
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.
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Cheers for looking! :)
Spectacular on all counts! Congratulations!
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!
I am quite impressed. More so when I read the text with the image. Great render!
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.
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!
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 :P
Fine work , very nice
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.