Parenting a country to a Globe?!

[Ken Latman]

Are you doing anything else with this country layer? I just tried to do a simple test and smart object layers converted to 3D layers in photoshop does not come into AE as a precomp that can work independently.
If you have a map of the world you could make that into a sphere in photoshop to rotate in AE.
Just make another layer with your country outline and place that where it is supposed to go on the earth and combine for AE.
Basically do a little pre-planing in PS before you start to rotate in AE.

[Alec Sprinkle]

I am. Ultimately, I’m taking a grayscale vector map, turning it into a globe, and as we talk about different countries, I bring those to color. Unfortunately, all vectoring becomes lost with the #D object in PS. After importing the file, we zoom in well enough to a file that’s 1000 by 500. But as I add the next globe to the project (where just America is colored), AE crashes. Every time.

I also can’t send the error report to Adobe because my department can’t get clearance to put the mac on the internet (seriously), so I also can’t download any patches if there are any (unless maybe I went to McDonalds).

[Ken Latman]

Why not animate all your countries appear and disappearing on the flat map first in accordance with your timing. Render that out as a movie and then wrap that movie in CC sphere. Then rotate the sphere in accordance with your time of your fade in and out of the map pieces?
You may need to work 2x the size for the map part so you can zoom in on your sphere, but I would think the processing issues you are having would be smaller for you are dealing with one layer and one sphere as opposed to many layers working within the sphere.