Lightwave is the tool that always gets the job done, quick and clean. Maybe that's because this is the tool I know best. I don't have to think about how to do something, I just do it.

And yes, I am a big infiniMap fan.

What does infiniMap do for you? Do you do fly-overs? What kind of geodata (resolution) do you use with infiniMap?

I use infiniMap for a certain Reality Show. Its very successful in the US, won last years Emmy Award for Best Reality Show. Its about people travelling around the world to perform tasks, and of course it is being faster than the other. This project is my companion for the last 3 years, ever since I started out at EdenFX as an intern. Every week I make them a new map.

The first season I did, was a nightmare. Sometimes they travel all across continents, sometimes they just take a bus to the neighbour city. You never know, and it happened a lot that the whole travel path would span across 20 pixels of my texture. Several times I had to find new map textures, tune the color to match the look of the others. And no matter what, the client still needs to see the map the very next day.

But then I switched over to infiniMap, and it served me so well over the last 2 seasons. The map I use is derived from NASA's Blue Marble satellite photo. This is a 20 GigaByte image, the whole world with a resolution of 1 km per pixel. No matter how far or how close I put the camera now, infiniMap always gives me a perfect image. And its incredibly fast, consistently 3 seconds a frame. With the old map, that had a 20 times lower resolution, I had 20 seconds a frame. Which makes a big difference with these tight deadlines.

So, thank you for infiniMap. It made my life a lot easier.

That's the only thing we want to do, making the life of artists easier...