I tried doing an animated zoom with the planet earth in carrera 5 pro. Looks good until when i reached a cu of the earth.It had pixle problems. How can I fix this? Is it in the render settings? What is the best render steeting?  

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

Yes Mark is right, the only software that I know that can do this is MojoWorld, but in movies and all this isnt done in one simple take, you create many takes and use fades and others effects to join them togheter.

Thanks guys. I tried doing it with poser and it was a little better than the one with carrara. But then again I used a planet product that didnt come bundled with poser.Does it mean poser is better than carrera in rendering close shots of subjects 

Not really... if you are using procedural textures to create the planet is will work great but you will not get a good closeup.... In Carrara you can chenge the shader in timeline, so when you are getting close the texture are changed and you can continue the closeup, but how we said early this isnt the right way to create a good scene. Nothing in movies are created in just one shot, everything is composed later in a softer like after effects, inferno or you can use the free jashaka

http://www.jahshaka.org/