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Flash 3D earth. (Including .fla)

Posted in Flash by Chris Benjaminsen on the October 19th, 2006

Spinning 3D earth I did for fun while experimenting with DisplacementMapFilter. The system works by drawing a, masked, moving MovieClip onto a bitmapCanvas and then applying a prerendered displacement map.

Click here to download .fla

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  1. Cory said,

    on December 8th, 2006 at 12:30 am

    very nice job.

  2. Ludvig Ericson said,

    on January 21st, 2007 at 8:47 pm

    Cool.

    Although the globe does have a kind of huge distortion. :-)

  3. Erik O said,

    on August 31st, 2007 at 3:59 pm

    Is there a way to have higher quality while keeping the CPU consumption down?

  4. REDSKULL said,

    on December 3rd, 2007 at 1:19 pm

    coool man

    goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

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