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Flash help needed, how to make a rotating earth
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Unless I'm forgetting something, animating latitude and longitude wouldn't make the image appear to be spinning,
Your best bet is to follow the example, or, for a better effect write some code using a 3D library.
I know Papervision has a built in sphere object, and I'm betting Away3D does too. Animating a globe like that would look MUCH better, and you wouldn't have to come up with a complicated .fla setup.
Your best bet is to follow the example, or, for a better effect write some code using a 3D library.
I know Papervision has a built in sphere object, and I'm betting Away3D does too. Animating a globe like that would look MUCH better, and you wouldn't have to come up with a complicated .fla setup.
i had no knowledge of Papervision, the examples look amazing but are sadly beyond my level on Flash so i will stick to animating the background behind the long/lat lines as you suggested, thank you kind sir 
did you get this far in your research into papervision?
http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/wiki/Getting_Started_FAQ
it really doesn't look that difficult and most of the code is copy+paste. i imagine you could figure it out in at least as much time as it would take you to re-create and modify the youtube example to give you the rotating lines.
http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/wiki/Getting_Started_FAQ
it really doesn't look that difficult and most of the code is copy+paste. i imagine you could figure it out in at least as much time as it would take you to re-create and modify the youtube example to give you the rotating lines.
i've already done a small animation that looks passable but thanks for the link, i will definitely take some time this weekend to set it up and play with it
thank you!
thank you!