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EarthViewer 3D is cool
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Posted by: SKYHN
Check out disneyland from high above...
I see Thunder Mountain 
Posted by: Gunslinger
Where do you get that nifty piece of software?
It's an nvidia product. Gay.
Posted by: SKYHN
Its not an nvidia product. Its made by Keyhole, but its designed for Nvidia GPU's.
Posted by: BeZeRkEr
i cant see buildings with using it 
Posted by: -EG-raynor
cool, where can i get this, id like to look at some things, does it only use Nividas cards?
Posted by: SKYHN
I think it works with any card, but if your card doesnt support antisotropic filtering, you wont get much detail on it.
www.earthviewer.com
You get a 30 day free trial, after that, its $79.99 a year.
Posted by: Bobaroo
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Originally posted by SKYHN
You get a 30 day free trial, after that, its $79.99 a year.
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I may try it out, it looks like I can have fun with it.
Posted by: -EG-raynor
peice of crap, only works with nivida graphics chisp 
Posted by: SKYHN
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Originally posted by -EG-raynor
peice of crap, only works with nivida graphics chisp
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You dont have to have an Nvidia card, all you need is:
3D graphics card with at least 8 MB of RAM (16 MB recommended)
But if you dont have a card that supports anti-sotropic filtering, the detail wont be very high.
Posted by: Gunslinger
My card has hella antisotropic filtering, and still things are megafuzzy close up. I can make out stuff from a ways up, but close, it's like, one pixel per city block.
Does it take it a little bit of time to render the image that close up?
Posted by: SKYHN
You cant zoom all the way in and get a clear picture I dont think(or at least it didnt when I tried). Only certain areas are high rez. You can zoom about as far as in the screen I took before things start to get fuzzy.
Posted by: Gunslinger
Yeah. I think it's area specific. I just zoomed in on a section of Atlanta and it was hella detailed. I could make out door handles on cars (exagerration, but the detail was very nice).
When I zoomed in on the town I'm in now, it was hella fuzzy.
I think when you zoom out a bit, the high rez areas are the ones with gray boxes.
And that's lame too. These are just patched together satellite photos. There's no reason (that I can think of off hand) for other areas to be such lousy detail.
Posted by: Gunslinger
And I've answered my own question.
They aren't pieced together satellite photos, they're pieced together airborne stills.
Posted by: Shalome
I've got a 64mb ATI Radeon -- and the software won't install. "GeForce 2 8mb or compatible required"
Posted by: Gunslinger
I have a Radeon 7500, and it installed just fine for me.
Oh, and also, these are not updated pictures, at least not all of them. They're old.
Posted by: Kdr Kane
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Originally posted by SKYHN
You get a 30 day free trial, after that, its $79.99 a year.
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My eyes see a $599 price tag. I don't see where you got $79.99. I'll keep looking.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
That's the Earthviewer 3D PRO edition, Kane ... the personal edition from nVidia offers the $79.99/year offer:
http://registration.earthviewer.com...initialweb.html
Posted by: Shalome
Kaneth, you're looking at the professional suite.  There's a personal one, too.
Posted by: -EG-raynor
 i wanted to see my area, it wont allow the instal for the same reason shal has 
Posted by: Gunslinger
I wonder if the trial version only puts certain areas in high detail (major cities).
Actually, I've noticed some major cities that have no detail.
Anyhoo. I got the pro thingy, and saw a $599 price tag - and the trial is only 14 days.
Posted by: Null Actor
Lame.
What I really want, is NASA's 20000 pixel resolution image of the earth. That would rock.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
go work for NASA 
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