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#Vista Cylinder World Map

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#190510From: John WilliamsSep 12, 1995 6:50 PM
Ive been having a go at creating a world to fly some harriers around in with only moderate success using a sphere with the normals flipped and so tried using a cylinder and the VISTA created .JPG downloaded from here but can't get it even close. Can anyone give me the brief idea behind the 3DS magazine article describing this or perhaps an idea of what I may be doing wrong? thanks. -john- DAS.
#190618From: David RhotenSep 13, 1995 10:31 AM
John: You don't say what, exactly, your problems are — which would help. But, you might try downloading CLOUDS.ZIP (I think that is the name) from the libraries. This is a squashed hemisphere w/ a tiling cloud-map created by Jamie Clay, back in his Autodesk days. (I will say that this cloud-map is _very_ popular. Not only do you see it _everywhere_, I find that after sweating blood over my architectural animations, the first thing ALWAYS that people say is, "My that's a realistic-looking sky — how'd you do that?" Arrrrgggghhhh!)<g> Dave