I went through about 15 versions in max till it looked about right, and then 10 versions in gimp for the detail overlay. I used the equirectangular map projected on a sphere for the Spheric, so that saved me some work. I just had to set up 15 animated gifs in gimp and convert to avi so I could use them in max. The worst part was setting the date/time on earth viewer, saving the 5 sets of 24 source images for the displays, and running all 120 images one at a time through G.projector twice to get azimuth and conic maps. Yes I'm aware I spelled visualizer wrong. Here's the original if you wanted to see more detail of just the maps on their own. The three smaller maps for each set are a 24 hour sunpath progression for the summer and winter solstices, and just one display for the equinoxes, since they're virtually identical. I pulled data for the 5th and 21st of each month. The two larger maps for each set show seasonal sunpath progression, one for noon, and one for midnight GMT. I want to tweak it a bit more, but I think it looks pretty good now.
It started out as just a simple map display but I just kept adding detail. I comped the images into animations in gimp, then I set up the spheres and the basics for the scene in max, and added more detail in max and gimp. The AE and CE maps I made with G.projector. All maps are projections of the EquiRectangular map data I pulled from this site. This is a pretty good representation of sun paths on the Azimuth Equidistant map, and some others.
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