Creating a 3D planet Earth with Spline

In this tutorial, you will learn how to easily create 3D planets by combining texture layers and lighting on Spline.

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0:00 Introduction
0:32 Making the Earth's sphere
1:00 Creating the materials and lighting
1:30 Adding clouds
2:00 Adding the atmosphere effect
3:10 Rotating the earth transition effect
4:00 Fixing texture details
4:30 Animating the clouds
5:08 Final outcome

[SalvosDharma]

Usually this kinda stuff doesn't work for me.. BUT IT ACTUALLY WORKED. I'm so impressed and greatful for this software. 🙌 my website design is so beautiful

[pablocortes]

Happy earth day! Please keep the tutorials coming!

[andrewiglinski]

Oh my lord... I heard about spline a while ago and for whatever reason I never really looked into it... I love this. *So stoked.*

[rochajoaom]

For someone with ocd with imperfections, I cracked a laugh 4:04 when you spot that line in the texture. Not in a million years I would spot that 😂 Good tip though!

[ArmOr_of_the_Alpha_and_Omega]

THANK YOU! THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED ❤

[chutieugiangphap]

4:30 When I set "Offset up one", my cloud image is blurred

[neoniquestudio]

Uhh, very nice! One question, if you don´t mind: I´m new to Spline so ... is it possible in Spline to also add interactive elements – like in this project e.g. pins at different locations on the Earth which can be clicked and then show additional information about this specific location? Cheers & Greetings, Manuel

[tekunaw_art]

Keep doing great things and inspire others, I can Learn many things from your content :) Thank You Spline

[plutoniocartonio]

when I turn off the ambient light, the sphere does not go totally dark on one side, like in the tutorial. Tried to position the light source differently, but doesn't matter. Turning off ambient light just made it slightly more dim

[ByKarmaMoods]

Awesome but there is some updates and i cant follow the tutorial, im new in Spline

[antonino]

Awesome tutorial! I'm wondering, could we have an image as BG Color? Would be great to have a star map.

[kunalbelamkar]

how do you lock the 3d object in play area. I am trying to use the scroll feature but it seems impossible

[andrei-kozlov-developer]

The spline interface is a bit different now. And because of that I cannot find some functions.

[m.a]

Hello! Is there a way to make an event that makes the earth stop rotating when the mouse hover on it and then continue rotating once it's moved away from it?

[pamplo]

Great animation. How can I disable the scroll

[tamarakepreyeomgbuayakimi.]

One thing to know spline, but another to have skills, but this guy posses all

[milosvajdic]

Is it feasible to add night-map for dark areas only, showing lights? I imagine Direct light would have to be somehow linked as a mask?

[mandoamador]

Awesome tutorial, the only thing I'm not able to have working is animating the clouds. There might be a bug with the offset value. If I set the value to 0 in base state and then set the value to 1 in State, the value stays at 1 for both state.

How can we create smoke? Can you make a tutorial video about it?

[slamic_reminder]

very nice but it doesnt work with the rotation. i did the settings but still is doest work