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#LW3D-World Animation

    06-Apr-93 02:21:41
Sb: #LW3D-World Animation
Fm: Richard Brown 71005,2231
To: ALL
I am volunteering on a project for The Salvation Army that requires an animations of a spinning world in space. We then need to zoom in to a close up of the North American continent. I have a star field framestore for the background but I have spent little time using Lightwave 3D so I need help to create the animation. I know how to load objects, move the objects and create simple animations, however, I am not sure of what is the best way to get an image of the earth on a ball object. Do I use an image map or a bump map? Can I framestore a map of the earth and then apply that image to the ball? What do I do? As you can see I'm not quite sure how to do this and any help to guide me in the right direction will be appreciated. Please help anyone!