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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!logica!oxleyd
- From: oxleyd@logica.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Help Me. I Need an Earthy Brush Map
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.135136.333@logica.co.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:51:36 GMT
- References: <faith.0f8v@amiganet.chi.il.us>
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- In article <faith.0f8v@amiganet.chi.il.us>, faith@amiganet.chi.il.us (Fred Drummand) writes:
- > Im Looking for a Earth Brush map that i Can Use with Imagine or
- > with Dpaint. I Need to do an animation and for part of it, I Need
- > a spinning Earth. Can Anyone Help Me Out ???
- >
-
- There is a (16 colour?) Earth map on the Art Disk 1 which accompanied my
- DPaintIV (and hopefully yours as well). It's called WorldMap.Lores in the
- Pictures directory, as I recall.
-
- As it stands, the picture has been drawn so that the continents appear shaded,
- and I think there is a small black area near the North Pole.
-
- To fix this, pick the black colour (used for continent shading) as the
- foreground colour, pick the blue colour (used for the oceans) as the background
- colour and select BG -> FG from the Palette menu. This will fill in those shaded
- areas. Now clip a brush of the map and save it. (I think that's the right way
- round with the blue and black... if not pick them the other way round and try
- again - I'm not actually at my Amiga writing this and I can't remember which
- way round the colours should be.)
-
- In Imagine (I use 2.0), you can simply create a primitive sphere or use the
- Add Sphere command, and wrap the Earth map picture around it as a wrap x,
- wrap z brush map. Imagine will put the Earth picture in the proper place for
- a spherical map. As Steve Worley notes in his excellent Understanding Imagine
- 2.0, the Add Sphere sphere looks very angular rendered in Scanline mode.
- You'd be better off using a primitive sphere, which looks fine even with the
- default number of divisions.
-
- Hope this is of some use.
-
-
- DavidO.
- [I haven't got a .sig yet, but I'm working on it.]
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