[TUTORIAL] How to create a cinematic EARTH sunrise animation (dynamic day/night & volumetric atmos)

[@velcro8299]

This Channel is so underrated. Time to make it fly.

[@I_am_Spartacus]

Nice tutorial, liked the atmosphere effect, it's a shame cycles doesn't do the same bloom effect.. 1 point I need to make, as with every other planet tutorial on YT... NASA planet maps are all equirectangular maps and they are made specifically for UV spheres with the Environment Texture node,,,,then put them on Generated with Smart sphere mapping and it solves the pole pinching... no need for a cube sphere or UV mapping ;)

[@MrYngwie]

Lot of thanks for the tutorial from Ukraine

[@jeanclaudemollonguet2561]

I have followed your tutorial and found it very good! Thank you! I have a problem with the atmosphere, I can't find the 'Length' :-) can you tell me where it is? thank

[@jorgejimenez8863]

in a vector math node

[@myphysicalworld3958]

Noticed that the tilt of the Earth axis should be 23.5° on the Delta Transformation so the spin is aligned to the correct axis...if not it would create a unrealistic "wobble"....tho the earth does wobble, but not that much.

[@gottagowork]

Depends on how and what you animate, but I also change rotation mode from XYZ Euler to XZY Euler. I also use a geonode "point" set to a radius for infinite resolution, where I map it using environment mapping with -1 in the x scale. Since points "look weird" in viewport, add a UV sphere and delete geometry/only faces for a wireframe representation of there sphere. Dunno if this approach works in Eevee, my Eevee is completely broken so I'm setting it up for Cycles. Edit: Missed "delta", I was working with regular transform.

[@floyd1411]

Oh my god.. thank you so much for this tutorial.. May I ask if we can use something similar to make a alien planet with this same effect?

[@NikolianYT]

This tutorial was very well explained and fun to make! The only thing is, I couldn't get my atmosphere to work, I made my nodes like yours but I couldn't get anything to show. My Surface on Materials is None | Volume = Volume Scatter and Use nodes

[@caribbeanchild]

Well then it was not explained well and not fun to make because you didn't make it it did you?

[@NikolianYT]

@@caribbeanchild I found the tutorial very fun and easy to follow, that was the only part I got stuck on and probably because I'm still very new. This was a great starting tutorial and way to learn nodes. Actually I learned a bit more and perhaps it was because I was on Eevee, not sure. I went and found the original tutorial he linked but still couldn't get my atmosphere to show blue like that.

[@reblend3d447]

@@NikolianYT yo si pude XD, oculta las clouds y surface, ahi esta el truco :V

[@thefahizsedeqi]

It would be great if you make a video about this animation thank you ❤

[@the_epipan]

I don't understand about Diffuse and Specular, where is that? I can't find it. And if it is something that is done inside Blender, why do you put "Difuse and Specular" in the list of things to download from the NASA page?

[@MarcoBassini]

Good tutorial. A question: I don't understand how and where are the image file of the earth in diffuse, specular , etc...

[@ammo793]

Hi Marco, you can find all the maps in the description link. I cant remember the names now, but I think theyre something like "day" for difuse, "bathymetry" for the roughness,. You can use a normal map or the NASA "height" image as a bump map. If you find the files confusing on that visualearth website, just google earth+texture+maps and you will find multiples sources where to directly download difuse, specular, roughness and normal.

[@akeel_1701]

Good tutorial, unfortunately, the Atmosphere section does not work at all - followed all the steps, including the Samuel Krug video you mentioned - still nothing!

[@ammo793]

Maybe it has to do with Blender version you are using?

[@akeel_1701]

@@ammo793 oh right... I'm on version 3.3

[@KnightRiderGuy]

Yup, everything was working fine for me up to that point, in the first color ramp if I swap the color slider my volumetrics show up as a cube. Why is that?

[@танкист108]

where is earth diffuse download link and earth height 25k map i dont see the link to download it bruh at least show physically of what your doing

[@cmdrhersin592]

I would love to see how to do day and night transition in cycles.

[@leonelsantos6517]

Naice

[@танкист108]

how to get power length and multiply node ? because appearntly blender doesnt have that node feature or maybe i cant see it

[@GaryBeilby]

Nice techniques in this tute. However, it immediately hit me that this wasn’t realistic when to see the setting sun makes all the clouds instantly disappear.

[@bin_online5878]

👍

[@dakotaridge]

Blender 3.3, the atmosphere shader is dead. Has no effect.

[@KnightRiderGuy]

Same for 4.1 too

[@jeanclaudemollonguet2561]

still a problem with the atmosphere ... I found the vector math for the "Length" I followed the tuto to the letter but I can not have this transparent blue ... in fact I have nothing at all! I have played with the sliders nothing ... an idea? a help?

[@reblend3d447]

yo si pude XD, oculta las clouds y surface, ahi esta el truco :V

[@danrebeiz4598]

Wait... Earth is a sphere?!?!? 😉 Thanks for the tutorial

[@ammo793]

well, its not, according to many ppl :s thank you!:)

[@Honkh]

Hi there! Thanks for the tutorial so far, but I have a SLIGHT problem. When I apply the atmosphere material, I get a cubic volume -> looks like a cube of blue fog around my Earth. Any idea, what I am doing wrong?

[@CMDNPLYZ]

add a gradient texture set to spherical, then add a mapping and texture coordinate, set the mapping location all to -0.5 thenadd a color ramp and clamp the sliders and put it into the density and scale up the sphere. hope this helps (:

[@mve736]

Probably a bit late, but I found a way around this that works in Blender 3.5. I'm a beginner so take with a grain of salt. ;) I noticed that by playing with the Multiply node on the left (i.e. the first starting from the left), the cube disappear at some point. In my case the cube vanishes from inside out, meaning that just before disappearing, we only barely see its corners. So my idea was to invert his process, i.e. make the cube vanish from outside in. For this I added an Invert node between the Multiply node on the left and the first ColoRamp node. Now if you play with the Multiply node again, the cube will vanish from outside in and this time just before disappearing, it will take the appropriate spherical shape corresponding roughly to what we see in the video. I can't explain why this is, but it seems to work. Bottom-line: just add an Invert node between the Multiply and first ColoRamp nodes on the left and voilà. :) I hope this helps a bit.

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

@@mve736 For me when I put the Invert node into it, nothing happened.

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

I found a way! Essentially, it is very very microscopic, but if you slowly move the first multiply node, you can see it take a spherical shape before dissapearing.

[@DonikiDoniki]

Thank you very much for your comment! That really helped :))))) @@CMDNPLYZ

[@Adrian-bn5tj]

How do you properly UV map the sphere? Mine came out a bit wonky and I'm not sure how to fix it without a huge amount of work.

[@Adrian-bn5tj]

nevermind, just noticed the mapping in the material

[@GurasisAnand]

@@Adrian-bn5tj should have mentioned what the problem was as well xD for anyone else having the same issue, change the image texture settings from flat to sphere.

[@caribbeanchild]

FFS...list the exact names and locations of the image textures used. That's the most important thing.

[@Adrian-bn5tj]

I'm not really sure what it is, but the volumetrics just will not work. Either it's a cube or it's nothing. I think you're assuming a bit too much knowledge on the viewer's half. This tutorial is great, except that if you run into a block then there's no explanation and no understanding of how to move forward.

[@Adrian-bn5tj]

for example, the tutorial you linked to is for Cycles, but cycles doesn't support ShaderToRGB, so you can't use it I've looked my shader over and it's identical, so it must be some setting outside of the shader itself I'm missing.

[@gokulcj]

@@Adrian-bn5tj I had the same issue. I figured it out by adjusting the "Multiply" node in the beginning. Try adjusting the 'Value' by either increasing or decreasing with the slider, and at some point, the cube will turn to nothing. That's the point you have to check. Just before it turns to nothing, it takes the spherical shape. There, you can adjust the values slightly. Then to fine tune, you can adjust the following 2 Coloramp nodes.

[@reblend3d447]

@@gokulcj aja ese es el truco, mejor si ocultas los clouds y surface ahi clarito se forma la esfera XD super !!!

[@caribbeanchild]

Thanks but this is not explained well. The use of the images is not explained well. I get no Specular on the ocean. So so tired of people who cannot put themselves in the position of others. They make useless teachers. Are you not capable of seeing where people might have problems?

[@caribbeanchild]

So there are no clouds at night? On which Earth? This is stupid.

[@vallycasello5649]

ᑭᖇOᗰOᔕᗰ 🌷

[@deptfakex7472]

The Earth is Flat.

[@ammo793]

And my head is a Cube

[@deptfakex7472]

@@ammo793 A very informative answer to a topic inwhich main stream media have decided to censor.

[@reblend3d447]

y yo soy huevo :V

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

@@ammo793 Well yes its a cube subdivided, made a sphere, and shaded smooth, just like the Earth is a flat surface that curves and distorts backwards until it makes a spherical shape.