Learn how to make earth orbit sun and moon orbit earth . Learn how to orbit object using time on a curve . Learn how to orbit object using unit circle (cos, sin) . Learn how to texture objects - bump map, specular map, color map, emissive map. Learn how to make a background sphere texture. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro/demo 00:12 Where to get image textures 00:35 Place pointLight to act as sunlight 00:50 Background Sphere 01:18 Make sun 01:52 Make earthSystem group: earth, atmosphere, axis line, moon 02:27 Make earth 03:33 Make earth atmosphere 04:15 Make earth axis line 04:55 Make moon 05:48 Make shadowmap, shadows 06:14 Make earth orbit ellipse curve 07:07 Animate loop constants 07:26 Animate loop tasks 07:39 Animate earth orbiting sun 08:58 Animate moon orbiting earth 09:33 Rotate earth, moon, sun, atmosphere around axis Resources: Free Milky Way Galaxy background: Free Planet textures: MeshStandardMaterial doc: Group doc: EllipseCurve doc: Curve doc: Line doc: PointLightShadow doc: Credits: Axial tilt image: Description - Comparison of the tilt of the rotation axis to the plane of the orbit for three planets: Earth, Uranus, Venus. Includes a right-hand-rule demonstration. Right hand graphic derived from File: Date - April 2012 Source - Own work Author - Tfr000 (talk) 13:49, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
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