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Just need a 3D model of the earth with continents on it..very basic.

Does anyone know where i can get a hold of one?

THANKS

napz

You mean the continents as textures or actual vertices?

Take a shere, find a b/w continents texture (google helps), displace, bake displacement.

If it's any kind of space shot at all, don't use bump, displacement, or any height generation of any kind. That's not how the Earth looks from space and will immediately kill the photorealism - if that's your goal. You can do the whole thing with a couple of maps.

_Mike

some free, some not

http://earth.turbosquid.com/3d-Models/3 ... si/c4d/obj

Mike is right. Diameter of earth is 12713.5 km and the highest bump is the mountain Everest which is only 8.8 km. If you really want to use bump, normal etc, it should be %0.06 in height comparing to size of your sphere which doesn't worth to keep the engine busy with this invisible detail.

removed due to lack of knowledge

...what's removed?

i removed it myself !
somehow a silly number was in my head claiming to be the real height of the mount everest and i posted it without questioning it.
i have no idea where it came from !

cheers
michael

Hey guys thanks for your help...

I am looking for a 3d model of the earth.

I am looking for the continents as actual geometry/vertices (not textures).

Thanks,

napz

Are we talking something like this ?

Pretty basic ..... what kind of use are we talking about ?

Here's a few links that should get you started..

http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
http://celestia.h-schmidt.net/earth-vt/
http://www.h-schmidt.net/map/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsro ... hlies.html
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.p ... oryID=2355

[Edit] : Oops! i saw now you weren't looking for textures, sorry. But oh well here they are anyways.

/ Max