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Actually the thread was from someone (Mike "Rayman" Bassier i believe) who needed a photo-real earth map. Sorry, couldn't find one, however there is a very nice earth map called bigwld.gif in the Go Graphdev forum Lib 3 I believe. What I did was remove the water portion, which is a solid blue and easy to exclude in Photoshop and used an animated water map in Texture 1 slot, earthmap as Texture 2 set to decal, Bump set to 3 and using the same earthmap as a bump material, and an additional sphere with some cloud formations decaled on which envelops the whole thing. Works quite nicely. Lee