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Well I've finally created a CG Earth that I'm pretty much happy with. Created in 3DS Max 9 using mental ray as the rederer. Got the textures from the NASA website including a 3000 pixel wide cloud map which was 34mb in size. This is all going towards an nice little animation I am doing about asteroids. The pic with the city lights is not meant to be realistically accurate, it;s more of a CG arty render as you would not see city lights from space (although I'll take the experts word for that)!

So far it's probably taken about 12-15 hours to create just for the Earth.

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/7...20earthtt1.jpg

Hope you like.

Dan

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I'm really liking that!! good work!!! :D:D

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That's fantastic:D

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wow :D

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Thanks guys and gals.

Close up of clouds etc.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9...oudspd3.th.jpg

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Dan, that is really really cool.

What did you use to create it?

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3DS Max 9 and lots of patience and tea (and some hob nobs).:D

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very nice!

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Very cool Dan, nice one.

Whats it for though? some project at work? (also you never replied to my text) :(

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Like what, where. I see nothing or links to anything etc.