Rotating planets?

[bigben]

Is it possible to rotate a planet/sphere? Imported objects have a rotation parameter but there doesn't appear to be one for the built in objects...  I've managed to get the correct orientation of the moon texture in my render but I had to offset the image in Photoshop.

[Will]

not at the moment, though I wish there was it would have help with a couple of projects.

[bigben]

Thanks Will.

For bitmap textures you can manually offset the image to rotate it around the planet, although it doesn't compensate for a moon high in the sky. For that you'll need something more sophisticated to remap a different view of the image... and of course I'm thinking Panorama Tools again as it can be done via commandline in between rendering frames in an animation.

[Oshyan]

Rotating about the planet's own axis is not currently possible. It should be available in the final release though.

- Oshyan

[wackymidget]

Any update on this? I want to rotate the earth while zooming in from the moon.

[Hetzen]

Thanks for bumping this, it's just answered a question.

[Oshyan]

This remains unimplemented I'm afraid. Something for the future.

- Oshyan