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heyas; saw this at astro pic, it might come in handy. it is a true-colour image of the planet earth, no clouds. toss it on a sphere! (do respect astro pic's copyrights, though.)

Thanks, bloodsong, that actually looks pretty good, and it applies itself to a Vue sphere quite well, too. :)

What planet ar you on, Mike? LOL. I think you have the texture reversed there. ;-) But it is interesting looking that way. jon

LOL!, you're right! hmmm... OK, too much computer today I think. :P

Proof at last! I'm not backwards, the world is! ;)

!thgir taht toG

LoL! That's excellent! And thanks for the link, bloodsong! A good Earth Map is hard to find! Aaron

wow... this is looking great !

By the way... where did you get the cloud layer ? Is that an alpha layer on top of the ground image or was it part of the image you used ?

lol! and mike wonders why i call him a goof. mike, you goof!! :)

I never said I wondered why.... ;)

Oh yeah, 3D Cafe has some great textures there, including all the planets in our Solar system.

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We were messing around with something almost exactly similar in the Poser Forum (thx to Phoul for alerting me to it :) There's a program that can do all of this for you if you want it; head on over to http://www.shatters.net/celestia and check it - it's a free program that sets things up to scale, and you can capture animation or images from it.

PS: the above image is a no-postwork image cap from Celestia. All I did is shrink it from 1600x1200, my default screen resolution. /P

That looks pretty cool. Thank you. :)

Ok, I took that texture map and wrapped in onto a sphere, but it turned out backwards, just like your pic up top (everything is reversed). Do you know of anyway to fix this in Vue, or do you just have to go into Photoshop and mirror it? -Christoph