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

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.

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

@@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.

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

in a vector math node

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.

nevermind, just noticed the mapping in the material

@@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.

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

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

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 (:

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

Same for 4.1 too

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.

@@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.

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

And my head is a Cube

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

y yo soy huevo :V

@@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.