Thank you for the purchase! The clouds are mostly white on the bright side with some details – by default… Please write me the exact RGB values, or send me a screenshot. You can contact me through my profile page.

I used after effect CC 2015, Element 3D v2.

This color is incorrect, but unfortunately I can’t check the project in CC 2015 yet. Please try to modify the following layers: 19, 21, 23, 25.

The Terra is a custom effect, not a real effect. Please read the user guide.

Thanks! However I don’t think so that is exactly this project, but the appearance are very similar.

No luck. Keeps locking up both of our workstations… It’s too bad, such a great looking Earth and set-up. We’ll check if there is a plugin update.

After reinstalling the plugin and setting AE to purge memory every frame, this project finally rendered without locking up the computer. However it took 20 hours for 33 seconds of animation…

The rendertime is mainly depends on your graphics card, the used texture resolution and the apparent diameter of the Earth – if you go closer, the rendertime will be longer. I can’t give you an exact rendertime forecast, but the demo video has rendered with 25-45 seconds/frame rendertimes on a GTX 760 and GTX 780 cards wit the 4K texture set.

There are some other Optical Flare layers below the Earth. Please try to turn off them. Please contact me through my profile page, if this don’t resolve the problem.

Ah it was a hidden layer called solar, thank you for the help!

The project is created with Element 3D. You can not use it without the plugin.

If Earth’s disk touches the edge of your screen, then only half of the texture becomes visible along the equator. Angle and camera-distance both effect visibility, so this issue shall not be considered a bug, as this is the maximum you may geometrically achieve. Unfortunately not even a 86K Blue Marble texture would be enough to produce the exact same image as the ones you get from the space station. Not to mention it is impossible to implement these kind of high-res textures into Element.

So if Earth’s disk fills out the full screen, I’d recommend using the 8K texture set.

You may turn up anti-alias in Blue Layer Group, but you won’t be able to make major changes to the texture’s quality. On the other hand this trick might come handy if smaller parts start flickering.

The project is working properly only with Element 3D v1.6. Element v2 result is not correct, but the update is coming soon.

The project has been updated.

Thank you for the interest! The update is in testing phase.

Any update, guys?

The project has been updated.

Do you work in Nuke? Any possibility to get a scene like this in Nuke?

Unfortunately I don’t know enough in Nuke compared to AfterEffects.

I understand that it was designed to general level customization, it’s an amazing tool, seriously, i can tell how much work was put in there, it’s just sad that’s it’s virtually impossible to use it in AE 2014. I have a good workstation, this is the first time i find that it can’t handle a scene. It feels like After effects is choking itself I can’t even get a sense of how parameters work, in in 1/4 preview. I will look at FAQ, hopefully it will help.

Thank you for the purchase!

Just delete the CamNull layer if you don’t understand the rig. This default rig is a simple parented camera for imitate the orbital motion – the Null is in the center, and the camera Z position is the radius of the orbit. But this is only an example.

You can use the camera in free-mode without any parent object, or you can use any helper object for targeting and positioning the camera. I meant that you are totally free to work with the camera, so you can build and use that camera rig which you really need. Sorry if I was inaccurate.

Some expressions works with the active camera. These expressions will switch off if you delete or turn off all cameras. Just create or turn on a camera and turn on again the expressions in this case. Please never delete or modify the locked objects.

I will test the project with the Malty Simple Camera Rig, thank you for the feedback.

The deletion of the 43rd layer was only a diagnostic step, not a solution. Please read the F.A.Q.: http://videohive.net/item/terra/4731854/support Don’t hesitate to contact me through my profile page if these suggestions don’t resolve the problem.

I tried the Malty Simple Camera Rig. Please try to delete my orbital camera and create a new camera before you run the script. This worked for me. Please note the camera is created inside the Earth, so you need to modify the default position.

Thank you for the purchase. Please read the F.A.Q. first: http://videohive.net/item/terra/4731854/support Don’t hesitate to contact me through my profile page if these suggestions don’t resolve the problem.

The project are used precomps as textures, so the effective texture resolution is same as the resolution of these precomps. The modification is very easy but you will need at least 2 GB of VRAM for proper operation with 8K textures. (4 GB VRAM is much better…)

1. You need to resize the 4K texture precomps to 8K (44-50 layers in the Terra composition).

2. And after that you need to replace the 4K textures with the 8K versions.

The Solid and Adjustment layers in the texture precomps will be scaled up automatically.

Ok. thank you!

The camera is parented to a Null object. You can modify the orbital parameters of the camera if you rotate this Null and modify the Z position of the camera (similar to a spaceship). You may use any other camera rig if you don’t like this solution.

The project is shipped with 8K texture set, but I think this is not enough for this close up. However you can create your own higher resolution textures based on the Blue Marble dataset and you may render the project on a high performance card with the low performance render method. You may further increase the resolution with this small workflow hack. So the project is capable for using 16K textures which may be good enough. But you may need to change the model to a fine detailed sphere.. – so this close up is possible, but the project is not optimized for it.

You will find information about the Terra custom effect in the user guide. Please write me through my profile page and I will send you a patched version.

You can easily use this scene from extreme long shot to medium close up shots. The closest point of this scene is depends from the resolution of the textures which you use. The useable texture resolutions is depends from the performance of your graphics card. So you can’t land on the planet directly in this scene, but you can go closer if your graphics card support that texture resolution which you need. You need other solution for the extreme (e.g. country, city or street level) close up shots.

This is a diagnostic step only, the result is not correct without this layer. Please write me through my profile page and I will send you a patched version.

Unfortunately I only have the subtitled version of the demo animation. The project contains the animation settings of the preview video, so you can get the preview mov when you render the project. You can also modify anything – this is not a single shot project.