Ok I took a different approach from the earth below. This one uses Textures, but I made them myself. Its probably my biggest piece in terms of textureing. It has a ton of layers. It is part of an open animation...later I will do a manuever will I zoom onto its surface. I found a cool solution to that problem, so when its done I'll post up an .mpg so you tell me what you think. The coolest part of this earth is that I scaled a huge cloud so it can have dynamic weather. Iam not animated the clouds tho b/c If I do it incorrectly I wont have time to redo it. It will be a nice toy to play with later tho :) Any any suggestions are welcome...the background is keyable so nothing can go there. I cant do any drastic changes but I can do some minor ones. Now I just have to wait until monday..this thing is takeing over 7 min a frame..I cant wait for C to support duel processing.