http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GLIbPKpgQ4&list=UUOKHwx1VCdgnxwbjyb9Iu1g&index=63

I am trying to recreate the effect that Andrew Price got when he created the Earth in Blender. I downloaded all his texture, bump and trans maps, went to work in Poser, and 9 hours later I gave up. I just couldn't do it. The other thing I wanted to create was the effect of when the planet is rotating in the animation, how you could see the dark side with the city lights and the light side as normal, and it changed with the "sun" hitting it. Couldn't do that either. He used a color ramp, and when I attempted it, I couldn't do it.

The material room is still kicking my butt.

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.