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[@luxintra5335]

100 VFX guys at NASA just lost their jobs.

[@neilfilms]

lol

[@flatearthreality8683]

hahahaha finally a good comment. i dislike everything, but i liked your comment

[@WesleyFranks]

BY FAR THE BEST COMMENT XD I ALMOST DIED.

[@ulilalbab6099]

dark jokes

[@NobleKreative]

Awesome Andrew but now you need a flat Earth version for flat earthers 😏 🤣

[@rexstauss]

Just use the texture he gave, forget the orb plugin. BOOM

[@NobleKreative]

@@rexstauss but needs to be in 3d with all the cool featured and 3dness stuff 😏 otherwise flat earthers will be mad 🤣🤣

[@madmon4022]

지구평평

[@donaldcphotography]

well the flat earthers would dream there an andrew kramer in their universe...lol

[@MrGlockshna]

All the pictures of Earth from space are fake. See? It only takes 30 minutes to make a convincing fake earth.

[@westernfrontproductions]

Anyone that is having the issue where as soon as you add a diffuse map it all goes black - it's probably as simple as updating your video drivers. It worked for me and others. First time I've ever commented on a youtube video but thought I'd leave that tip, and to say hats off to Video Copilot and Andrew Kramer. Been following for years and awesome content, great plugins and tutorials - especially the humour and presentation. Thanks!

[@ronineditor9920]

Dude, you and your team (isn't it basically just you though?) have been ridiculously amazing over the years. For the little you charge, you put out way beyond anything that anyone could ask for. You've been a wealth of knowledge (when you don't have to be) and you help everyone over the years and, again with this, just wow. I would gladly pay for this plug-in, yet, you just give it away!? Just wanted to say that I appreciate what you do and I'll keep supporting Video Copilot.

[@tadaizm]

7:41 Earth Orb 11:43 Earth Lights 13:09 Clouds 20:05 Haze 22:08 Stars 25:04 Halo BIG THANKS to Andrew Kramer for all that he DO

[@recombatant]

Andrew Frame Hey. That is so cool what you did there. Indexing the video. Really cool.

[@jvdesuit1]

And bravo for his extraordinary skill as a teacher! Most of KZbin Adobe CC tutorials are totally not understandable by guys who are here more to show off than really help you develop your knowledge whatever nationals they may be; including my dear French compatriots!

[@alexandremoresque4779]

O tutorial está incompleto?? Não consegui mover a sombra como na demostração.

[@vijaym5180]

Nice work

[@animepowerhouse]

does anyone know how to rotate the earth because he didn't tell that here at 27:32 and why he create null...please

[@Daunnet]

Andrew, what u made 10 years ago (u said the worst) changed my life today. Thankyou Andrew ❤️❤️

[@abiyyupanggalih854]

mantap mas sama

[@cg.man_aka_kevin]

Anjas.... I can't believe Indonesian people comment on this video... :D

[@VFXGUYAMAN7]

11 dislikes are from those who believe that earth is flat💔

[@A101-t4z]

Or for those that did the painstaking process of learning how to do this in a 3d editor like blender only for all that to go down the drain :(

[@catapillie]

not that much finally lmao

[@Almighty_Flat_Earth]

Why mercury and venus show up in the night sky? If sun is not visible in the night sky, then how venus is visible? That's impossible. Can any scientist (Illuminati) explain this? No. All 12 months, we see the same stars in the night sky, but we should see some other stars which are in the other side for 6 months. Globe is busted again.

[@eggue9598]

@@Almighty_Flat_Earth Venus and mercury reflect most of the light that hits them onto earth

[@nawidherawi6954]

Even for them: the hemisphere.

[@MaxRovensky]

Tomorrow all over VideoHive: “Epic Space Trailer” and “Planet Title Sequence”

[@sparkside217]

On KZbin "Planet Test (Orb)" "Earth Render Test"

[@pixeledgedesigns9116]

Hahahahahahaha

[@davefleury2984]

Nailed it!

[@andriicgi]

That's right! xD

[@lorenbooker9486]

Or on shutter stock "Animated Earth Stock Footage 4K UHD" $299

[@matthewmcentire6780]

I don't think I have ever found a line of tutorials better than how this guy spells these out for free plug-ins. Video Copilot has my business!

[@jbpullenu]

The transcript with a little editing, thanking Andrew. part 2 So you might have heard of something like a specular map so if we open that up we can see the world here and you can see that the oceans are mostly gray and lighter and the land is a bit darker and essentially what we're saying is we want the surface that's made of water to be more smooth and glassy and we want the land parts to be more diffused or less glassy. Now, one really nice feature is that we have a gamma and brightness control for the map so if we change this you can actually see we're getting a slightly different result and this can be nice just to get those final tweaks now a couple other things to point out is that in the bump settings we have a setting called bump fall-off and if you turn that up it actually cuts the amount of bump that's allowed to go past this sort of Terminator line, basically, where the lighting edge ends and this is a really useful setting for just being able to control how far your bump mapping goes. All right, so next let's turn on our lights now we have an illumination map loaded and we can open up that map basically it's just a bunch of lights that are on for the various cities in the world now if we go to the orb plugin all we have to do is load a map and then turn up the illumination settings so as we turn that up we're gonna see those lights turn on. Now notice that the lights turn on in the illuminated area so if I just rotate our orb where the light is say splitting up an area with a lot of lights what we can do is go into the illumination options and there's a setting for shadow light and we'll turn it up and you'll see that the light only shows up in the illuminated areas now if we turn it the other direction and then turn up the light contrast we can actually start to cut it off in the illuminated area so as we rotate this we can actually see it cutting out. Now, later we might play around with the expansion which allows us to just shift where that edge is, we can also change the illumination map color so we can tint it you know just with a little bit more saturation if we wanted to change the color of the lights and you know we could do something really crazy but just a little bit more warmth I think that's kind of cool. All right, so let's go and move on to creating the atmosphere cloud layer so to do that we're gonna create a new solid we'll call this clouds and hit OK and we'll take the VC orb effect drop it on the layer now for this copy we're going to be using the Earth cloud texture, now that looks something like this now in order to get this to work with orbs so we can see through the clouds we need to create an Alpha Channel so what we'll do is take that cloud layer and choose layer pre-compose we're gonna leave all the attributes we're called Earth clouds alpha and hit OK, and so now if we double click it so what we're gonna do is add an effect called extract drop that on there now I do think I should encourage you to get FX console, another free plugin from Video Copilot, it allows you to search for effects without having to go over to the effects and presets here, but for now let's go ahead and use the extract so we'll grab this slide it over and then take the bottom point and drag that back over so now if we look at the Alpha Channel you can actually see that when we turn this on and off we're actually cropping out the color based on the luminance so that looks pretty good let's add a tint effect so we'll just type tint drop that on there we're gonna change the black color to a little bit of blue. Alright, so it looks pretty much the same except now we have a bit of an Alpha Channel, so we can close this and go back to our Earth orbit comp and we'll select the cloud layer with our orb effect we'll go down to the maps and we're going to load into the diffuse slot the Earth clouds alpha that we just created and into the bump slot the very same map Earth clouds 6K Alpha. Alright, so now we want to make the clouds look a little bit more puffy and a little less plastic, so what we can do is turn up the illumination and that'll give it a bit of a self illumination and get rid of some of that plasticness. Now if we solo the layer you'll also see that it's really shiny so let's turn the glossiness down to really low like maybe 0.1. I think that looks pretty good, now the other problem is we don't want to see the clouds in the shaded area so we can use our same illumination trick so we'll slide this over to the light side and then maybe now we can turn up the illumination just to bring some more brightness up, all right, so the edges look a little bit rough, so here's a couple of things we're going to do so we'll turn up the illumination just a bit now if we go back down here to the bump fall-off for the map we can actually turn this up and it will reduce the area where the clouds overlap so maybe we'll just turn this down to about 0.93 or so and it'll go up here to the illumination options and we're gonna turn the bump influence down and what that will do is soften the clouds a bit and then we can even expand the clouds just a little bit and maybe we'll turn the shadow contrast down just a touch and maybe I'll just turn up the illumination just a little bit Alright, so now let's go ahead and add a curves adjustment and here I just want to go to the Alpha Channel and just put a little bit of contrast and just make some of these clouds pop out a little bit more same with the RGB we'll just brighten it just a bit and one last thing let's change the color from white to a bit of an off-white color all right so if you miss a step or you need to go back in time a little bit just roll it back a few seconds. Alright, so next what I want to do is add a shadow underneath our atmosphere so in order to do that I want to take our cloud layer and I want to duplicate it now the idea here is that we want the atmosphere to be above the surface of the Earth so if we increase the radius to about 202 that basically creates a larger sphere now if we take the cloud layer that's below and maybe unload the bump map since we don't really need that anymore and what we'll do is add an effect called color correction tint and we'll just change this to black and so now we have a bit of a shadow, now I'm also gonna add a fast blur turn on repeat edge pixels and maybe just 1.5 just want a little bit of softness we can let me go to the Alpha channel here and tweak how dark some of the shaded areas are basically, but you can see that really goes a long way to giving this Earth more dimension now here's a really cool feature that we've added that you're gonna find a ton of uses for, so if we take our cloud layer so I'll rename this middle one hit enter new cloud shadow and we'll take the top copy and we'll go into the material settings for the advanced and there's an option called edge feather and edge shrink so if we look closely the orb is going past our Earth and that's because we made the radius larger so what we're actually gonna do is turn up the edge feather amount and turn up the shrink amount and it will actually contract or erode the edge of the sphere so that you can actually get it to align with your main planet this is looking good.

[@aonevfx7849]

Thx now I can make Avengers 4

[@flakes8011]

Aone VFX ha

[@patelatelpa]

Do the maps come with the plug in?

[@nine-vi7rw]

Deadass 😂

[@donaldcphotography]

no....but if anyone has a link for the maps....reply pls

[@999GHz]

maps are available for download on the same page you downloaded the plugin. just scroll all the way down.

[@OohDanOne]

"20 years ago I made this awful Earth tutorial. 10 years ago I made this Earth tutorial with VC Orb. Today I'm going to show you how to make an actual Earth."

[@PotatoFactoryFilms]

OohDanOne feat. Famos

[@vVPhaetonVv]

That may be true lol!

[@maruko8324]

Because he is transitioning into a god.

[@galactichurricane3747]

Be careful not to tweak this thing to long before it starts looking like a quixel sphere lol

[@flatearthreality8683]

it's flat you bitch

[@FLIMLIONVisualFX]

The legend is back ❤️❤️

[@ShadeMedia]

FLIMLION VisualFX is it thelegend27???

[@aniketbhurle]

FLIMLION Visual FX is also a true legend.

[@Dkny2001]

Andrew, your skills are so extremely developed ...you blew my mind just with the intro ..... the biggest respect from me and for the inspiration of developing skills...

[@orlandeuce6567]

14:08 finally!!!! the use of that CLOUD map.

[@avnishparker]

You are truly an Inspiring Person. :)Big fan here. :)

[@EdititStudio]

Am i the only one that thinks that his jokes are the best jokes in the world?

[@KDrixx]

me too

[@ofekitzhaki8929]

אתה גם פה?

[@bohdan_lvov]

no joke

[@fireballsensei9287]

Grooooaaaan!!!

[@NT_01]

not best, but he has excellent sense of humor

[@taittheel2183]

Earths diameter 12,742 Km... We'll just leave it at 200. lol

[@axelus22]

I know right? that was hilarious

[@MrFutureAlexx]

That killed me xD

[@flatearthreality8683]

idiots who write "lol" and "lmao" should be slaughtered with a joy. they waiste earth's oxygen!!!!

[@fireofenergy]

So, "202" might be a good Earth atmosphere dia. Wouldn't that be about the correct proportion (like, duh, that's why he did it)?

[@TheGrandmaster1]

That actually was funny. Like, why even look it up? lol

[@LOGOS_Official]

I made my first earth, moon and sun render in adobe after effects when I was 12-13 years old watching your free tutorials!! So much nostalgia

[@AlanDomper]

damn bro.....

[@哥杨-m4e]

This is my first time learning special effects on KZbin. It's so cool, thank you!

[@mdmoulanasameer]

Earth Diameter 12,742 km............. Well just leave it at 200 😄😄😄🤘👌👌👌

[@yochintohere]

yes that was awesome

[@yannistath]

i was drinking coke at that point and it came out of my nose... :O

[@mdmoulanasameer]

@@yannistath haha it was too funny he make the jokes here there hAha

[@_theeb]

😂😂🤣🤣😁😁😆😆😆😆😆😆😆🙉🙉👩‍🚀👩‍🚀👩‍🚀👩‍🚀👩‍🚀🏃👌👌👌👌💪💪💪💪☝️☝️☝️🖖👈👈🤙🤙🤙🤙😁😁😁😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@xatarrada]

#HILA

[@scorpion20dz]

never clicked so fast in my life lol

[@rajarajanmanoharan]

You are a legend. A hero! *Cries Insanely*

[@susanwatkins5025]

Great tutorial. I started off taking notes while I watched the tutorial. Then decided to watch it completely and forgo taking notes. I'll re-watch and take notes then dive into trying to create my own. This is just amazing and I've been wanting to try this, but until now, I did not have the capacity on my computer to do it. Keeping my fingers crossed that this workstation will do the trick! Thank you for taking the time to do this tutorial. I appreciate the work that had to go into doing this. Looking forward to watching & learning more!

[@manhoodfromtheinfallibles9790]

To get the glow to work, go to project settings -> color -> depth and set it to 32 bits per channel

[@anwarhejo9483]

Nothing happend when i chaned the bit depth!

[@manhoodfromtheinfallibles9790]

@@anwarhejo9483 Can you check if the preview render resolution is set full?

[@anwarhejo9483]

@@manhoodfromtheinfallibles9790 there was something wrong with whole project because the resolution of Earth texture was pixelated even when preview render was full so I'll do it again and make sure in project so I don't fall in same mistake, Tanks btw

[@wellkrew]

@@anwarhejo9483 Same happened to me, any fixes?

[@tharukaravisara]

Then change the Glow Colors to > Original Colors in effect pannel

[@Derny.]

NASA use this Plugin 😂

[@TheCinewanderFilms]

who else like this guy's tutorials before watching ?

[@TheCinewanderFilms]

i know... he is so dmn amazing,..

[@emahitube]

Me

[@chosenideahandle]

I still watch them and I use Fusion.

[@BlackWinterProduction]

Sure!

[@NYC2SOCAL2024]

"This guy" hahaha

[@TheGrandmaster1]

It wasn't more than 10 minutes into this tutorial that I began shitting myself uncontrollably, simply because I was astonished at how awesome it was and how excited I was to be able to do it. I completely lost my bowel and ruined my chair and pants and everything, shitting myself in amazement.

[@Fujtajblus]

11:27 - man.. these kinds of jokes are amazing and I am glad you have this sort of sense of humor :)

[@michaelmuller6029]

oh my god I'm crying!! this looks insanely good, I can't believe it. And you're giving this awesomeness to us for free? Including a massive tutorial on how to use it!? Andrew, you're giving me a glimpse of god. What a time to be alive

[@ColeEdits]

7:15 STARKILLER BASE 2.0 :D

[@jedijacob0411]

Cole Edits haha I didn’t notice

[@MM-ir3ir]

As long as I wanted to make such great Earth, after loading the diffuse picture in the orb plugin, the sphere disappeared, and the rest of the work could not be continued, obviously, due to unknown reasons.

[@elfinpie7290]

Well I think Andrew will never reed this, but I wanna say THANK YOU for you free amazing plugs and tutorials. That's just awesome.

[@EthanLington]

Your amazing quality brought me here. Your comedy keeps me coming back

[@NOWAXWORKS]

AMD's latest driver won't let you see the planet when you apply a diffuse texture.

[@Yellow-7777-w5q]

Thank you. Do you know how to solve it?

[@alexmadrid9909]

I FIGURED OUT HOW HE GOT THE EARTH TO ROTATE: 1) Create a NULL OBJECT and place at top of layers 2) Pickwhip PARALLEL LIGHT to NULL OBJECT 3) Press "R" for Rotation and set adjust keyframes for the "Y" value accordingly.

[@santiagorinaldi1712]

u saved my life!

[@alexmadrid9909]

@@santiagorinaldi1712 I spent 2 1/2 hours following his tutorial step by step and I was not going to stop until I figured out that rotation. I wonder if he missed explaining that step or left it to see if someone would catch it?

[@santiagorinaldi1712]

​@@alexmadrid9909 he did it unporpouse

[@ninjacc89]

wait what

[@TheStoryofYote]

Thanks! I'm going on 3 hours trying to figure out how he pulled off the "smoky" haze, shown in the trailer for the other planets. I feel like he's using saber but I don't know he did it.

[@YoIomaster]

unfortunately bugged in ae 2022, the illu map shows as a purple solid color :(

[@YoIomaster]

yep same, completely bugged, norm map showing and haze ignores shadow/light settings, just decreases opacity and not cutting it in shadows only.

[@lapoopcestducaca]

There is no way to correct that ? :/ I might be late here but I've began AE for a few month and i'm rolling throught many plug ins and i found this one really interesting and want to use it properly and entirely :/

[@davidolusoga543]

Okay so I just found the solution to the diffuse map making the sphere disappear problem. Lol I'm so excited. If you're sure your graphics card driver is updated, try running AE using your integrated graphics card. Right click on After Effects, go to Run with graphics card, and select integrated graphics. Worked for me

[@TheMetalVagabond]

Andrew has always been cutting edge even if his some stuff becomes outdated after a while.

[@funkyguy0]

I know I speak for a lot of people when I say, Andrew Kramer you and the team at VideoCopilot are more than awesome. You are an inspiration to many, me included. For years you have graced us with awesomeness. Thank you for this, and may you be blessed with abundant success.

[@q7nator847]

Andrew: “In space you don’t want to make the movements too fast or too large so that it feels real.” *Inserts Star Trek title sequence*

[@amsjaquino]

This plug in is soooo helpful and lit! Thanks so much for this!! you're such a blessing for us who uses after effect :D

[@LukasSkywalker]

This is mind blowing! Thank you so much for making these free to use, and showing how to use them!

[@KW0757]

It keeps saying “invalid filter” and “can’t find main entry point” every time I try to add the effect. what did I do wrong cause I downloaded it and did what it said to install it. And I’m using After Effects CC 2019

[@TienW]

Can someone tell me how he does the rotation at the end with the shadow moving too? What did he do with the Null Object?

[@ryder3715]

It is so simple just click layer light and press A and shift P and turn on timer and change the position of light at first frame and at last frame thats it where ever the light goes shadow escapes this is the easiest light animation method.

[@juliashah726]

@@ryder3715 hi do you know how rotate camera that you actually see the different part of the earth?

[@ryder3715]

@@juliashah726 yes I do know

[@ryder3715]

@@juliashah726 I can show some of my work you have instagram i can send there and explain how6to work with camera

[@juliashah726]

@@ryder3715 hey thanks, I figured it out too

[@moboxgraphics]

Papa bless

[@SplittingProductions]

Your jokes always make these so much more enjoyable to watch. Great tutorial, and thanks a lot for this! I'll be recommending it to my friends.

[@richardleshone]

For anyone else struggling with disappearing textures, I set my texture limit to max and it works now

[@DirtyCrow94]

how? when i render the composition, it only shows me the white orb.

[@humanbeing2299]

problem: at the start when I bring in the texture map into the defuse layer it just comes up as black and I can't see the model anymore what do i do?

[@vandijk7792]

Same problem🙄

[@plannedproduction1803]

remove all ur after effects lights, or add an ambient light

[@mado441]

same problem

[@kylevorbach]

Whenever I try this, the bump influencer slider does literally nothing. Anyone else have this problem?

[@CsabiKremser]

yep, I just ignored that section, it will be just as nice without it.

[@Sma-v4y]

5 flat earthers felt insulted. :D

[@Sma-v4y]

@Fridolin Fickwicht from now on, they can fake it, but till this plugin all is not fake.

[@pianolopes]

It doesn't work, I've tried everything, when you put the planet's texture on the sphere, it simply disappears, this happens in several versions of AE with all the drivers and updates up to date, could anyone guide me to solve this problem? I have an i5 3 generation 32Gb RAM and an AMD RX 550 4Gb

[@majorpaiyne2124]

I do this in 3DS Max. This is a bit more fun though. Thanks Andrew! You are a GOD!

[@danieldaviddauersuff]

I have done it exactly what he was saying, if I load the texture to the "ball", it just disappers

[@uicodegraph]

update u card graphics

[@AgentSmith13]

It's the size camera you're using. Select 35mm from the drop down. It screws things up otherwise and the textures don't map right either. I had the same problem.

[@davidolusoga543]

Try running AE using your integrated graphics card instead of your GPU. It worked for me.

[@kamel3d]

2:58 would it do the same sound effect when I drop it in my after effects? 😂

[@idolindner8913]

It better do!

[@Logkin]

XDDDD

[@diegoprods7971]

when I add the final glow to the haze layer, the glow sits in the inner part of the horizon instead of the outer side. WHats going on? Help!

[@diegoprods7971]

@@lewis2874 nope. I made the whole thing in cinema 4d

[@arturocorces2007]

I have this same problem! Did you ever figure it out? @Diego Prods

[@davidkearns6318]

I had the same problem. Not sure why Andrew's acted differently than mine, but I was able to fix it by bringing down the Shadow/Light Contrast. Hope this helps!

[@ahssanmoshref]

brilliant minds behind brilliant things . The timing for what I can use this is perfecto. Sank You Very Mucho!

[@kavehchannel]

Thank you Andrew for your AMAZing tutorials!

[@BrandonWussow]

So I'm using this plugin on AE CC2019, not sure if that's my problem, but when I add Planet 4k to the diffuse map (3:49 on the video) my orb disappears, it blacks out, I've tried other pictures as well only to end up with the same problem. Do you have any advice or ideas on why this is happening? When I change my diffuse blend from 1.00 to any number lower my orb begins to reappear but it is simply a white orb, no texture, it reacts almost as if I'm using opacity. Any help would be much appreciated!

[@ManpreetSingh-fq4jn]

I'm facing same issue. Did you find any solution?

[@singularity_josh8063]

I'm having the same problem!

[@photosbythomas4130]

same problem here. Any fixes or did you guys just give up?

[@stickpig7443]

same

[@ComicBookCovers]

Hot damn! With the hemisphere option, I'm-a give my actors some snazzy digital knitted caps!

[@StoneyBoi0613]

lmao

[@straydwag]

Man.....Can't find the words for you..... Thanks for all you do for the beginner.... Really expiring.... Right now I am student and don't have money...But when I will be a professional gonna buy all your stuffstuffs Ones again thankyou

[@pokezundefined93]

You Just Got 1 New Sub Bro thank you so much because of your tutorials I have learned many things and my creativity and imagination is going wild kuddos to you bruh keep up the great work

[@RaaghavKulshreshtha]

As a blender user, this plugin is pretty cool ngl.

[@RazorianBuck]

Has anyone figured out yet why the orb disappears? i tried a 1k jpeg but still the same problem.

[@omar72455]

why when i load the textures it goes to black and doesn't show up

[@dizzyanimations]

same :(

[@TheGnarfactory]

Same

[@macfraser88]

same :(

[@mariokaras]

Do you have the latest graphic card updates and CS6 updates? I had the same problem. I updated it and it worked. But the problem of my graphic card (only GTX 760x2 I have) was then with 4K diffuse map. Only half of sphere showed. Andrew spoke about it at 8:58. I tried 1K and 2K maps and it works perfectly.

[@34_motiongraphics]

still doesn't work with 2k textures

[@worldinmyeyes1890]

The plugin is amazing and I finally understand why is free, you need a 4K euro PC to run with the texture in 4K ... ;)

[@artnmotion]

Thank you Andrew for being such an inspiration! Respect!

[@alexinthewall5604]

This is awesome, I followed along and remade this and I'm going to apply it to other planets and moons.

[@KristophM]

No wonder Flat Earthers think that the Globe Earth is CGI.

[@Ripper7620]

Thank you for being so incredibly generous with your resources & time, between this tutorial, & the Saber one, I was able to make a borg ship with lasers for my treky friend, and I'm fresh off the boat to Ae.

[@RavotYouTuberRavotVlog]

Why I see nothing on screen after I load Planet_4K to it? All it's black. It doesn't work like you . maybe because installation ?

[@lowjinguyen3062]

Have you fixed this problem yet?

[@jbpullenu]

The transcript with a little editing, thanking Andrew. part 3 Next we want to add some nice atmospheric haze and this is where the blue comes in all right so let's create another new solid call this haze hit OK and we'll come over here we'll type orb grab the VC orb drop it onto that same layer now for this one we just want to create an atmospheric haze instance so we'll turn up the illumination turn it to be blue let me turn up the Fornell and the bias now we want to get rid of the lighting so what we can do is turn the diffuse down and the specular highlights we can turn the specular down now we might want to turn the bias down just so it's a little bit wider but again we only want the haze to be in the illuminated area of the Earth so again we'll turn that shadow light amount up and we get a nice cutoff that's gonna blend perfectly so we'll set the transfer mode to screen and now we're starting to get somewhere so we might want to play around with this edge here so we could turn up the expansion turn the contrast down so it blends really nice alright so let's go and start polishing this a little bit we'll play around with this haze color maybe just make it a little bit more blue and turn that bias down a bit so it really washes that color across the surface. All right, so let's go and add an adjustment layer and we'll do a curves adjustment put a little gamma on this I think that looks good and we could even add a little bit of noise and this just looks like a little bit of film grain but just a little bit. Next we're gonna add some background stars so we'll do is create another new solid call this ours hit OK and we're gonna drop this down below the Earth and again we're gonna drop the orbit plugin on to that layer we'll go back to the project, I want to grab the star map and that's basically just a square 1K texture of some particles and what I'm gonna do is drop it into the project, disable it, select our star layer go down to the map settings so we're just gonna load it into the diffuse so star 1K now I'll go ahead and solo this so we can see what's going on, you can see a little bit of the stars on the surface and here's the Alpha Channel there now what I'm gonna do is go to the advanced settings and we're going to turn on unlit only and then I'll get rid of the lighting and just render the texture as it is, now what we need to do is render the inside of our sphere so if we change the surface from front to back, now if we go inside here we can actually see that we're inside the sphere so let's make the size of the sphere maybe something like 20,000 and now we have our star map the only promise the stars are a little bit stretched out so if we go to the UV settings change it from spherical to box and set the repeat to maybe 4 by 4 now we have some nice stars we can rotate the map to just to sort of vary where some of the seams come together, turn on the other layers and we're looking pretty good, we can even go half resolution and just keep in mind the maps are gonna reload at half res but it'll definitely be a lot faster while you work. All right, so this is looking really nice what we could do is go over here to the project and I just have a blue haze picture that we could take and just drop it on top and set it to Green and this just gives us a little bit of that Spacey atmosphere feel, now, one thing I want to do is just give it a little bit more contrast so that this blends a little bit nicer so if we go to the color correction layer and maybe just add a little bit more contrast here and just keep in mind that there will be some variation between half res and full res so you want to make sure you're keeping an eye on that. All right, so let's see if we can create a halo so we'll duplicate our haze layer and we'll solo it here real quick and let's turn up the Fornell bias and maybe turn the brightness up here and I think this is a nice result for maybe a more realistic looking Earth, maybe a slightly less stylistic version but what we also can do is add a glow and like I like to do is duplicate the glow add another one with a slightly larger radius and we'll just play around with the intensity of both of them and then maybe a little bit of color correction maybe desaturate it just a bit so that looks pretty good now keep in mind that we can do that trick where we soften the edge to all of the layers so we can go to the or Blair feather the edge just a touch and the haze layer as well and that will just get rid of that really harshness of the planet edge and just leave us with a much nicer result. So it's looking cool maybe a few other tweaks we could do here if we go to the Earth instance we could play around with the expansion of the illumination and maybe overlap it just a little bit as if some people are just turning their lights on a little bit too early all right let's go and add a quick camera movement we'll grab our camera layer hit P hold shift, hit 8th and we're gonna keyframe the position and point of interest we'll move forward maybe out 75 frames and we'll take the camera tool maybe we'll go to half res so it's a little smoother and we just want to make a very small movement keep in mind that in space you don't want to make the movements too fast or too large so that it feels real. Oh! times moving backwards, Superman really screwed us over! Alright, so this is looking pretty good, we could probably spend a little bit more time finessing it there's lots of other cool things that you can do with this plugin although one thing does come to mind is the Universal Pictures logo animation now maybe with a little bit of work we could recreate this although I'm thinking I'm thinking more like the one from the 1930s. Nice yeah! this is looking good this is alright guys, thanks so much for watching, be sure to download this plugin, have fun experiment and if you do like what we're doing here and you want to support us, check out some of our other plugins element 3D optical flares 3D model packs all that stuff goes a long way to help support us so we can keep making awesome free plugins like this so thanks so much and I'm Andrew Kramer we will see you next time.

[@Gluogie]

absoultley insane, great job guys!

[@AjitheshGuruprasad]

Man you're like the best VFX artist I have ever known. Andrew thank you for another beautiful tutorial. I am kinda surviving on your VC freebies so thanks again!

[@jojo0746]

"Don't move to fast in space it might look unrealistic"*queue in Star Trek credits*

[@dmitriidavs4181]

Whenever I try to rotate the camera (like at 10:14) the planet and light source moves to the side, pls help P.S. found that you just need to choose a two-noded camera

[@ryder3715]

You need to animate light seperately

[@antonnikulin5516]

How is it possible this channel is still at 500k?

[@TheCinderDude]

i Feel like the clouds should still be slightly visible on the unlit side, or at least they should influence the visible city lights underneath a little. other than that, this is amazing!!!

[@geraw7924]

when i select my texture in diffuse layer, mthe planet gets invisible...

[@jackhackett1486]

i have this problem too, anyone have any ideas?

[@willeklof]

Following this tutorial to the letter, pausing every single time he changes any value, even looking for random cuts where he changes values without telling you, it still won't look even close to the same as in the video

[@calebhartproductions6311]

I think he skips a few tweaks he does. My "terminator line" doesnt look anywhere near his and neither does my haze. Also he doesnt mention he made a null at the end with the light pickwhipped to it.

[@DitzelYT]

I can't install it, even if I have administrative privilegies, after effects is closed and i also have over 8GB disk space.. can someone help me? Error: 40

[@DitzelYT]

Okay guys, i fixed it: Just install it for custom and select your Plug-ins path in your after effects folder. Programs/Adobe/After Effects/Support Files/Plug-ins and click select folder. Then it will install it for a custom folder -> the After Effects folder. You're done. It works for me. Sorry for my bad english, I'm german ;D

[@rbytrasacc2311]

You deserved 100 Million Subscribers

[@noajoan3027]

Thank you so so much! Amazingly detailed plugin and so well explained

[@christiankiggins355]

The dislikes are people who can’t be bothered getting after effects and are trying to do this in Microsoft paint

[@diotimeprod.8676]

I have a little problem with the "Glow Effect (25:33) ", i don't have this blue halo i don't understand , mine is not important enough ( Sorry, my english is so bad... but i need help guys )

[@daveross1595]

I had this problem too, I spent a while adjusting the settings on the second glow to get it to work as his settings didn't quite do it for me.

[@antonpolinski]

We found a fix with MARCO! You need to change your compsetting to 32BIT not 8bit VOLA! Thank me later! :D

[@jamskof]

THANKYOU!!!!!

[@benjaminreynolds3659]

@@antonpolinski Thank you!

[@adirakessler235]

@@antonpolinski Where do you change it?

[@DTChunky]

I've watched this tut so many times and I'm still amazed. We miss you Andrew!

[@dustypixelsUE5]

Haha, that Terminator reference got you a like and a sub! Had me in stitches.

[@EugeneAntipov]

I was laughing on terminator)) Thank you Andrew for your tutorials and lessons!

[@raghavkhanna6893]

illumination effect not coming on lighted part of orb

[@Blendercage]

Under material, turn up ‘illumination’

[@iuriius]

@@Blendercage Thank you man! )))

[@minutesback]

Back in 2023!

[@olexy84]

When I upload all the textures and set it up in orb settings and try to zoom it with the camera i' ve got lots of pixels. Why is it happening? I follow step by step. I even changed my composition settings to 4k. Any ideas? Thanks a lot

[@atschun]

press 3x C / u need to zoom in with the 3d camera

[@olexy84]

Hi @@atschun. Thanks for your reply. That' s what i do....and still the same. I can' t find solution. I even changed maps to 1080 but still the same

[@atschun]

olexy84 then go to the Camera Symbol, press it, and change to zoom

[@Douken]

Okay so you have to zoom in with the camera. Zoom the composition until the composition window appears fully. Like Normal. Then you can only use and hold ALT to move only the camera. Use Left Click to Orbit, Middle Click to Pan and Right click to Zoom in and Out.

[@BakersTuts]

WASSUP ANDREW, BAKER HERE!

[@pixeledgedesigns9116]

Mannn! I used to follow your motion tracking tutorials before you got married. Lol. Good to see you around

[@petermoutinho9556]

THE Legend right here!! Brother, just start doing your Tuts, today people are hungry for AE and PR Tuts. You can help people and grow your KZbin. come on brother ;)

[@vinhdo1609]

OMG Baker , your my favorite youtube channel.

[@ResumeStudios]

The two OG's

[@prathameshbhonkhade7801]

Keep uploading such tutorials and this tutorial is very good now i am going to try it

[@sulphurous2656]

I feel spoiled with how easy this stuff is getting now

[@balsmit1]

5:27 why can't i covered the whole globe with the illumination thing, its just covered the dark area and the area where the light bounces of the globe but not the whole? pls

[@eddieluongdesign]

Fresnel: 0.00 and Fresnel Bias: 1.00 will fix

[@balsmit1]

Thanks bro. Il try it next time.

[@babmate]

​@@eddieluongdesign sadly its not workink, can you have any other idea?

[@vlinnus]

The end of this tutorial is not completely clear. I see the null object on the top of the layers and how is the animation of the light made?

[@AgentSmith13]

Parent the camera to the 3D null and use it to move/rotate the camera. Same can be done with the light.

[@erterrill]

LMAO, "AAAAAND, WE'LL JUST LEAVE IT AT 200." 🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥

[@tvgamerzsouthafrica4015]

you are my hero Andrew Kramer! pushing hard everyday to be as awesome as you, i want to be Andrew Kramer the South African version lol

[@metatronorder3565]

thanks poster...but your step of using the shadow light under illumination options to swing the atmosphere glow from right to left or vice versa absolutely does not work - it simply turns the intensity up or down but the atmos glow always stays on the left or completely encircles the sphere - any suggestions in how to do it on AE 2023 so the glow is on the right hand side where my Spotlight is facing (i.e. left half of my planet when following your tutorial and amending the spotlight to my needs, is lit. The right side of the sphere is dark yet the atmos glow is predominantly there and any amendments shows it then encircle the whole sphere)??

[@KuschArg]

Hi, somebody have tried to make this tutorial on 5K? I've been trying to do it and when I turn on the difuse map, the earth gets completely black and i can't see the map... please any sugestion? thanks!