Thanks so much for this! Quick question. When I zoom in with Geolayers - e.g. from a high view to a close up - the screen shows the outlines of tiles. This also comes out in the render. Is there a way to avoid this? Cheers
Hello thank for this amazing tutorial I have made a map however the terrain data is not Loading in GEOlayers even after finalizing what could be the problem? thanks
Bro This Tutorial Helps me to enhance my Knowledge about map Animation But please drop a tutorial on how to make real life lore & casual scholar thumbnail type map.Which they use on their thumbnails.
Hi, I believe they get them from a guy called Frank Ramspott. Check out his official website and iStock. Unfortunately there isn't a way to animate something like that in After Effects well, this might be more of a Blender thing.
I'll look at making a tutorial on that one :). if you want to stick something to the map you need to make it a 3D object then pickwhip it to the map anchor.
Haha that was a pretty funny intro. I got geolayers over a couple years ago and have made a bunch of map comps that I’ve only finalized to for my own watching but going to launch some videos next week. I just haven’t mastered AE well enough. I work in GIS and my enjoyment comes from making different base maps for geolayers using Maplibre or ESRI. I like Maptiler as a company watched a bunch of their Leaflet tutorials but IMHO that license fee isn’t worth it. There are open source ways to do the same thing. But it probably saves some people some time. But $25 a month is too much for that. But both companies I think are great and Geolayers really is a great application. Sorry for the long comment haha this is just my main hobby and no one I know personally knows what I am talking about with this stuff and I’m obsessed. 😅
@@MapMotionStudio Geolayers has field (I forget what screen) that you can enter an ESRI basemap URL for I think. I go a somewhat circuitous route where I use ESRI in Mapbox to create a style that I then use for Geolayers. I like working in Mapbox a lot. Now that you've called me out haha I can't remember how I used Maplibre in GL. In HTML you just call the URL for it at the top of the page. I will have to open Geolayers to see what I did previously.
Some of the satellite imagery in geolayers when you get too close it it just goes blank. I would suggest trying different satellite imagery (there's Bing and Esri) or scaling up the comp. Also if you go into the settings of the map comp you can change the max zoom setting. That may help.
oh my goodness, finally someone who made this into a tutorial, thank you so much, very much appreciated. Another curiosity, as you know sometimes the Johnny Haris team uses a canvas pattern but I can't understand how they do it so well. I also always noticed in one of his videos WWII in the Pacific: Why Japan Lost at 0:15 second you can see how the style changes, in my opinion he started with the white background then they added various layers, but how?
Thanks, you're welcome. The canvas would have likely been done with a blend mode (perhaps multiply). for the transition between maps, when you create a second map comp in geolayers you can select the drop down called "link view" and link it to another comp so they show the same thing. he would have then just had two different map styles linked and use a luma matte of an ink splash to transition between the two.
@@Sukhraj You can use a smaller texture and then the effect CC repetile with blended edges to expand it out. Worth only turning on before the final render as it can be quite a render intensive effect.
This was great. Does mapbox ever charge for this service and also can you theoretically share custom maps from mapbox with friends who have geolayers / or is there a repo anywhere of premade geolayer maps for inspiration? Thanks!
@@raybp7512 I think I there are some paid mapbox services but this technique is free. If you shared that URI key with a friend then they would be able to use the same map. I’m not aware of a list of URI keys online you can use. You can sometimes find stuff like that on GitHub. On my Google from in the description I have a list of map styles which you’re welcome to use.
This was great. Would love to see more stuff combining Geolayers with Handicam. It can be a headache figuring out whether to use Hnadycam or Geolayers own camera sometimes.
GeoLayers is great for making any customized shape layer on the map. you could do this too in 3d earth connections but you would need to manually draw it out. Geolayers can do 3D and 2D maps whereas 3D Earth connections is just a globe.
He's huge on instagram. I have a friend who has kind of matched his style. The globe is super hard to animate on, people usually use the globe on geolayers and the template they have on there.
