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shkumbinferizi
04-16-2008, 08:01 PM
Im trying to make the earth planet for ages, ive gotten somewhere using 3ds max, but im not satisfied with the look that much..
I have heard some people are doing matte painting of earth combining with 3d to make the realistic look, my shot is as close as viewing it from a satellite so the clouds should be nice and kind of volumetric , and that is my problem , the clouds are usually strange, ive tried different displacement methosds butnoithing is workiong that well so far/.
Please anyone having experiences or ideas do share them.
cheers
Beldragim
04-17-2008, 10:46 AM
I think you might be looking for this page http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html and tutorial #41 ;)
everlite
04-17-2008, 11:15 AM
Unless you've got some extreme camera move then a matte painting is usually the best approach for this kind of thing. You could even project it onto a sphere to add in a subtle camera move.

Dave.
shkumbinferizi
04-17-2008, 11:15 AM
no no on lol , my view is much much closer.
Ill post an image when i get home on what I have achieved so far, last night i had some luck and Ive gotten quite a desent result actually.
cheers and thanks for looking man
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