I read a while back in this forum of someone mentioning an excellent earth map
that was available for download somewhere on CompuServe..?
Apparently this excellent earth map was a composite of actual space photographs
without clouds (or something..??).. can someone please direct me to that file
as soon as possible please?
— Steve
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