"Sir Charles W. Shults III" <aic### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
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>     Thanks.  Making the scenery realistic is a prime mover in selling an
idea
> like this.  Even some wooden-headed congress critter might be impressed by
those
> odd stirrings of imagination that hits them and sign a few checks.

If you wanna go all out on realism why don't you use some high res image and
bump maps of the real earth?
http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/earth.html

If you want the planet to be imaginary you could still get away with using
their cloud maps as I've never really seen a good procedural cloud texture
for an entire planet.

Corey


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