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!

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

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

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.

Thx now I can make Avengers 4

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

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

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

The legend is back ❤️❤️

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.

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.

This free Orb plug-in deserves a well recognition!

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

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

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!

Dude.. For the simple fact that you offer that awesome plugin for FREE.. You deserve a good sit in heaven! I'm a professional MotionGrapher because of you.. Thanks Andrew!! A big hug from Barcelona

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

who else like this guy's tutorials before watching ?

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

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

This tutorial is out of this world, nothing I've seen before equates to this. Andrew brings a positive sphere of influence to the VFX community.

Andrew got a nice sense of humour, thats what make his tutorials more interesting to watch!...

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!

Like.. My mind is blown from the amount of free pluins, that we are getting lately from you... Crazy! F*cking amazing tutorial & plugin! Love you

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

Videocopilot! You are most cool guys in the industry! Thank you very very very much!

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

"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."

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

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

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

100 VFX guys at NASA just lost their jobs.

never clicked so fast in my life lol

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.

For anyone who is having the problem that the orb-plugin is puttin up the error "Send dump-file to VC-support", press enter every time the message appears, click the orb-plugin in the Effect Control-tab and close the first arrow of the plugin, right under the name "VC Orb" and above "3D Object". This arrow is an empty entry which causes the problem. After it´s closed/minimized everything should work :)

Does anyone know if there's a way to export the finished earth result, into 3ds Max? Or convert it into an .obj format?

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*

you are the Bob Ross of the digital world, been a fan of your tutorials since 2009, keep up the awesome work !!

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.

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

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

Mi dear friend Andrew, this is the first time that I write you. You have been my teacher since a long time, is an honor learn with you. Keep doing tutorials

Love it Andrew, I love to still be learning new things in After Effects. I don't think you can ever fully know everything there is to know, but this channel is a great place to learn.

WASSUP ANDREW, BAKER HERE!

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

Dude Don't take this the wrong way please!!!! But......... do you know how much I love you! Thank you for this

that shadow light option made illumination based on shadow areas is amazing.

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.

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

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...

I hope these pointers from the last 5 hours spent semi successfully creating an Earth that I think passes for a possible commercial use can help others. Firstly, I know this is basic, but, put the tutorial on a separate screen/laptop so that you can keep pausing and rewinding (otherwise it will do your head in). Secondly, don't rush the tutorial. Go step by step because it really is worth following every micro step. If you miss a stage, it's hard to pick up the thread of where you were and why you lost the 'look'. For example I had to have two goes at getting the stars right because I rushed it the first time round. Do follow the stars step. It really is the icing on the cake as the Earth really does look like it is part or a real life Universe. Don't just put the stars up behind. For me the single most important step is the point light. The point light affects so many different elements, it makes a difference with the shadow between the light and dark areas of the Earth and the glow you add later on in the process. Get that point light right, and other things fall into place. My advice is to take the point light target area away from the Earth so that the light cuts across. My Earth is posting as I type and you are welcome to see what is possible from a person who dabbles in AE but is by no means an expert. Now the bad news. When you apply the clouds and clouds 2 layers, (on my set up at least) they don't line up with the original Orb. I have no idea why. All are sat at the 960, 540 and it is a fiddle to line them up as depending on where the camera is, they need tweaking. If you decide to rotate the Orb layer during a render, it rotates at a different rate (faster) than the clouds above. I don't know why but it does, and you can't parent them, but after a lot of trial and error, it is just quicker to move the camera. You don't need to turn on the 3d layer icon on each solid. This software intuitively does this. That's it from me. I can't get over how absolutely amazing this software is. I can now show any country in the World in a project and get a realistic 3d result. I will be buying from Video Copilot, and I think they deserve amazing praise for this.

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

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

2020> stilll coming back to video copilot tutorials

Still the best results ever made with this plugin is this tut right here. You guys get the most ouf of them.

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

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

The man who is responsible for many careers including mine!

I just can't get over how f'reakin cool this plugin is!! I literally purchased after effects and am learning it because of that trailer... Just WOW!!! It's just so perfect for what I'm needing it for. So thank you soo very much!! You could have made some serious bucks on it but instead you wanted to give it to us for free, I'm just blown away with that move too.

Thanks for this great tutorial and plugin again! You've changed many people career in years. And soon we all be drowned the planet videos after people watch this one :)

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

If you agree with me that Andrew is the ultimate grandfather of after effects, give this comment a thousand likes.

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

Just a tip for people doing this effect: Make sure your Depth is set to 32-bits per channel

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

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

Anyone else think this was used for / made for the opening of Netflix doc series "Our Planet"? In any event, bravo Kramer.

7:15 STARKILLER BASE 2.0 :D

Waiting so long for this tutorial😍.And at last it is here😍✌️✌️

Finally something that is free and doesn't cost $200

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

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

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

I'm in love... feeling like a kid on christmas. This appeared to me in the right time when I needed it the most and will use it for many of my next projects. Thank you

This channel deserves 100 million subscribers.

5 flat earthers felt insulted. :D

Dude, I'm learning so much from your tutorials. I'm really just starting out but your tutorials have really helped me get comfortable with After Effects and Premier. I can't thank you enough. Plus, one of my very first videos used your Saber plug-in to fulfill a childhood dream of having a light saber, "sort of" :). If I get to the point where I'm making any money at this, I'll stop just using your free plug-ins and tutorials and start paying you for stuff. I promise! I can't wait to scrape some cash together to get element 3D.

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!

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.

NASA use this Plugin 😂

Andrew Kramer is a legend. A LEGEND I TELL YOU!

Andrew is a living god when it comes to special fx. My first time I followed his tut was in 2011 I think...I was already impressed when he started his tut with "hey whassup Andrew Kramer here and welcome to another very exciting tutorial.... :D

YES ANDREW! YOU ARE AMAZING!!!

Oh my gosh you are the best person ever. This things look so good and there free!!!

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

At 16:45 Andrew decreased the Bump Influence on the clouds layer. That made the clouds look soft and puffy. But when I tried it it doesn't do anything at all.

Back in 2023!

Andrew how do we make a cable or wire. Cant find anywhere

Awww I've dabbled with After Effects and just installed it again (literally) .. Video Co-Pilot has ALWAYS inspired me and given me stuff to make for free - really cool stuff! Thank you 🥰

bro is literally a living legend

5:28 cant make illumination color glow over whole surface, on my side it cover only dakr part of the planet. What I did wrong?

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!

This is definitely way better than what I can create in other 3d rendering programs

Andrew you're top of the nudge pls keep posting I've learned alot from you.. I just terraformed Mars and gave it oceans.. Awesome

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?

I have this error "ORB Failed to initialize" :/ i run Element 3D v2.2 with no problem I have a AMD Radeon 6670 HD

One of the best videos I've ever seen in my life. Thank you for sharing this. God bless you man. 🙏

After 10 years, your finally getting better!. lmao! Master shader!!

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

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!