are some of the headlines in the last few days and a projection of earth looking like this

is presented in many articles all over the internet.

My first question was - can we reproduce this or a similar projection in FT3?

And luckily the answer is: Yes, we can!

Here is my result of projecting the ETOPO2 data in a similar projection.

It seems to be partly the old fashion "Azimuthal Equidistant" projection - but limited to the northern (or southern) part only.

You can add the following lines in your projections.txt file in your FT3 installation folder to get this projection:

Projection 90, "AE Northern and Southern Hemispheres"

Scale 1.0

Description "Azimuthal Equidistant Northern and Southern Hemispheres"

Segment "Azimuthal Equidistant", 90, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0

scale 1, 1

Offset -0.5, 0.0

Effective -180, 90, 180, 0

Rotate 70

EndSegment

Segment "Azimuthal Equidistant", -90, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0

scale 1, 1

Offset 0.5, 0.0

Effective -180, 0, 180, -90

Rotate 110

EndSegment

EndProjection

Greetings,

André

@Loopysue - great work!

Just wondering - have you thought about "splitting" the banners - into a right, middle and left part - so that maybe the banners can be expanded in the middle for longer text just by adding a multiple middle sections? Just an idea I had right now...?

Here is the .fcw for the beach-islands...

It uses exact the same filter images as the pile with the water ripples...

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@Ralf and @jslayton can somebody confirm that the effect Texturize gives different result in the preview screen (while changing the parameters in the dialog box) and after pressing ok (confirming the parameters)? The first picture shows my preview on screen (using global sun) and when pressing ok I get the result as shown on the second picture...?

Here is the .fcw for the "pile" with the "water ripples" and its belonging .png filters

Both filter images have to be copied into the ProgramData\Profantasy\CC3Plus\Filters\Images folder to make the map work properly.

The displace filter was generated in Gimp and converted to a normal map in Wilbur (I think you could have done this also in Gimp...) ...and as I use the german version of Gimp the filtername became also german - for me to remember how I created the image...?

The .png does not show up correctly in the preview - black should be transparent... The filter map is inspired by the one @Raiko posted.

The .png file above seems to loose transparency - here the .png as a ZIP file:

If someone is interested I can also post the .fcw for the island/beach/waves...

In the discussion How would you create a fantasy port harbour there were some attempts to create water ripples around piles with the Edge Striping effect.

Meanwhile I created some other patterns both for use with the Edge Striping and Displace effects to figure out what can be achieved by the combination of both effects.

Here is one result:

and here an other one:

The halv transparent circle represents the undisturbed object (pile)