-
Extruded earth technique?
does anyone know a way I can create the different continents like on the image shown and making it accurate or near enough I have tried various methods but just cant seem to get the desired look or the accuracy of the extruded earth
-
8 Replies
-
not sure if i uploaded the image….oops
-
https://n.b5z.net/i/u/10007147/i/bigstockphoto_Ocean_With_Globe_1268692.jpg
here is the link…sorry I am a newbie to this forum
-
-
this one looks like it was done with an eps file of the land outlines which was extruded then Wrapped into a sphere. It’s hard to be so smooth in the outlines otherwise with a large number of polys – doesn’t mean it wasn’t so though. It’s easy to do a single layer land mass earth with textures but extruded like that…
i don’t know where to get such a detailed eps of the earth but the general concept is easy enough. Otherwise with textures (alpha and displacement) this is the sort of thing that’s possible. Even with a biggish texture the edges are still a bit chunky… which is why I think that one is an eps/ai file extruded (or something like that)
-
Heres my attempt… I simplified the earth image a bit and applied it to a spherical relief object, then subtracted another sphere from that using a boolean.
-
brian how would i wrap an extruded eps round a sphere ?
-
Wrap Deformer but make sure the extrude uses Regular Grid on the Caps with a fairly small value so it all wraps smoothly. The size and latitude and longitude settings control the amount of wrap. Radius just controls the final sphere size.
-
Thank you Brian
I was fighting with it yesterday and using a small Regular Grid solved the problem.
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up