The infinity Object is a solution for larger areas, where you might need to fill a big backdrop.


The infinity Object must be inserted under a DEM Earth parent object.


this works best if you disable the "stick to floor" option in the parent DEM Earth object.


The settings for the infinity object are as follows.


This essentially creates a grid of dynamic tiles, which get re-used. This speeds up the process so that it does not have to reconstruct the entire horizon each time the camera changes. 


You set up your view distances, size, and max subs, and size of tiles. if you switch your view to show lines, you will see that distant tiles have less subdivisions. All settings have an impact on performance. Play with these settings, to see what works best for your shot.


Best is to hide your DEM Earth parent and set the parent subs to 1.

you want the infinity object to manage what you see, and you want the parent object to have as little work to do as possible, as you are not going to see it.

You can easily set up a massive shot with a huge horizon. by tiling layers at different resolutions.

i.e. on dem earth parent.


Firstly, you should probably turn off the infinity object whilst doing this, or you will be doing a lot of downloading....


On the dem earth parent, starting at i.e. zoom 4.


  • start at zoom 4 and capture layer 14.
  • capture a layer...
  • drop to zoom 2 and capture layer13.
  • capture layer...
  • drop to zoom 1 and capture layer 12.
  • capture layer...
  • drop to zoom 0.5 and capture layer 11.
  1. Set your dem earth zoom back to to 4.
  2. Turn the infinity object back on.
  3. Reverse the texture tag order, so that that the texture order is large to small.


Each image will be composed of the same same number of tiles. You have basically set up a texture pyramid, where the highest level of detail is in the center. This is then the focus area, and your area of interest.

  • I will try to automate the pyramid building in the an update !

you could also throw in a DEM Earth Cloner, and put your trees under it..


I look forward to any feedback and suggestions you might have for this.