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  • Adding lights to an earth zoom.

    Posted by Robert Marchand on September 24, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    Looking for a way to add city lights to a map as i zoom to the earth from space. Other than one at a time. Any ideas?

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    Andrea Stewart replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Andrea Stewart

    September 24, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    Maltaanon has a tutorial where he does this. In fact he adds clouds and displacement for earth’s uneven texture. You can find the night shot of the entire earth flattened (and day shots too) on NASA’s website.

    Here’s the tut.
    https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/advanced-3d-planets/

    Andrea Stewart
    Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
    Germane Creative LLC

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