Hi Flyn, You've reached the limit of the texture maps resolution. So, there is a couple of ways to handle this. 1) you can create a texture map with more resolution or, 2) you can pull of the long standing film/movie trick of doing a quick fade to a new scene. This is typically done in conjucntion with a clould fly-through or a focus on a continent and then a carefully aligned 3d continent file is composited over the planet as you move towards it. Mark