Real 3D ball

[Kevin Camp]

read down 2 posts… Rutger may be try to do something similar with cc sphere, linkning the rotation properties of the cc sphere effect to the position to simulate a realistic postion-rotation relationship.

is this something similar to what you were trying to accomplish?

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Absolumer]

actually , silly as it may sound…

if you had the chance to watch the simpsons movie , their town is being covered by a huge half ball shaped glass. (basicly called glass dome)

and thats exactly what im trying to get.

my first idea was finding a way to make a 3d ball ,make it bigger and transparent , and somehow cut it to half.

i know it sounds bit barberian lol 😉

so anyway if you can help me with that , it’ll be great!

thx again 😉

oren.

[Mike Clasby]

You should be able to make the top-half of a glass globe with CC Sphere. Just mask off the bottom half of the layer that you apply sphere too. For a test I put Effect>Render>Grid on a Solid, precomposed that (move all attributes), then masked off the top of the grid. When you apply CC Sphere to that you get the top half of a Sphere with grid lines.

For Glass textures I’d look at this tut:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/glass_globe.php
Is that what you want?

[Absolumer]

yea man thats exactly what i saw…
but the problem is that i dont want it to look like a glass globe, i wanna make it a real glass globe which i can view in 3D and roatate too…

or i might be wrong and it is 3D.. but i tried and i saw he only gave it the feeling of a 3D ball but its basicly a 2D..

[Mike Clasby]

Andrew has a nice tut ” 41. The Blue Planet: Earth July 08, 2007 UPDATED!”, here:

https://www.videocopilot.net/planet.html

In “Watch Tutorial Part 02” there is a method to make the layers 3D and have the Sphere react to the camera appropriately. He uses Dan Ebbert’s lookAt expressions and Auto Orient. Pretty slick and it should do what you want. Methinks.