Realistic Planet Earth 3d model

Detailed spherically-mapped planet with daylight diffuse, night light illumination, bump (and alternate normal) maps, with separate cloud layer.

Adjust opacities on the maps to yield better daylight and night light mapping if your view is dominated by one or the other. Replace bump with normal map and/or place normal in displacement for better relief, depending on the light angle.

Animate terrain and clouds independently.

Maps supplied by NASA.

Created by Glenn Campbell,

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http://www.ideacape.byethost32.com

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pkurek

I can use this model in my yt presentation???? Plis!!!

4 days ago ⋅

vistaero

This is a real photo of the Earth, captured by a weather satellite: https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/36373377022/in/album-72157684003526412/ I think you will find some big differences between reality and this thing that you call realistic...

1 month ago ⋅

@vistaero This also uses a real photo of Earth, supplied by NASA. This model has independent moving clouds... like reality. This model can have dawn, midday, disk and night time all look correct... like reality. The city lights switch on at night, like reality. The terrain is LIDAR mapped by NASA, accurate to 10m in the vertical. So that's bang on. Best of all, this model is an oblate spheroid, like reality. The flickr image is flat. You're right. That's quite a big difference right there.

4 weeks ago ⋅

haikavn

Hello, thank you for model! If you like you can view your model in real 3D here - https://artisgl.com/realistic-planet-earth

2 months ago ⋅

@haikavn Awesome, thank you!

4 weeks ago ⋅

ramkan