#Earth Object
Adib:
Thanks for the compliments! I owe much to the others on CIS who supplied
the original bitmaps. Using those bitmaps and some image processing, I was
able to fake things like altitude maps & reflection maps. (They're very
arbitrary, and you can pick out lots of physically impossible earth
climates in single frames, but it does look good as it whizzes by. :^)
'175 seconds for each frame' Is that at MedRes, LowAA,…? (I'll have to
dig up my old archive.)
I did one version of the earth that flew out from the surface and ended
with a sort of Universal Studios style logo flyon. I did it with motion
blur and LowAA – it looked beautiful, but took _FOREVER_.
(BTW, I have now realized that you can heighten the 3D appearance by
turning ambient light to 0 and using a distant light at about 20%. This
really makes the globe pop out.)
Keep On Toastin'
Erik Flom – ELF Works 3D Construction Co.