anyone know where I can get a mesh of the earth. Thanks,

Under prop types, it's called a "ball".... The TEXTURE.....now that's the hard part..... Scarab

...or a "sphere". The texture part is not that hard either. Go to http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov. The Earth, the moon and a bunch of other planet texture maps are available for free d/l.

A mesh of the entire Earth? Lets see, now how many polys would that take...

You can obtain topographical maps, both color & shaded relifes) of the world from here: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globegal.shtml They are made from the world DEM data and can be downloaded in variuos file sizes. Jusy use the grayscale for a bump map and the color one for a texrure and map them to a sphere. These maps are in Mercator projection so should map to sphere OK (they look out of proportion at the poles in this projection, ever try to peel an orange in one piece and lay the skin flat?).

http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/model_page_1.htm try there its a bigger file but it looks good. Sprout

Thanks Everyone !