Forum: Vue

Subject: True Colour Earth

bloodsong opened this issue on Mar 12, 2002 ยท 16 posts

bloodsong posted Tue, 12 March 2002 at 6:19 PM

Attached Link: AstroPic

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.)

MikeJ posted Tue, 12 March 2002 at 6:54 PM

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


jstro posted Tue, 12 March 2002 at 7:04 PM

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

 
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MikeJ posted Tue, 12 March 2002 at 7:19 PM

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


Axe555 posted Tue, 12 March 2002 at 9:03 PM

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

MikeJ posted Tue, 12 March 2002 at 9:57 PM

!thgir taht toG


TheDaedalus posted Tue, 12 March 2002 at 10:47 PM

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

agiel posted Wed, 13 March 2002 at 9:13 AM

wow... this is looking great !

agiel posted Wed, 13 March 2002 at 9:22 AM

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 ?

bloodsong posted Wed, 13 March 2002 at 9:53 AM

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

MikeJ posted Wed, 13 March 2002 at 10:02 AM

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


MikeJ posted Wed, 13 March 2002 at 10:03 AM

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


Penguinisto posted Wed, 13 March 2002 at 1:48 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12356&Form.ShowMessage=612073&Reply=612422#8

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.

Penguinisto posted Wed, 13 March 2002 at 1:50 PM

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

MikeJ posted Wed, 13 March 2002 at 4:51 PM

That looks pretty cool. Thank you. :)


Christoph1 posted Fri, 15 March 2002 at 11:04 AM

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