Ok, I have an odd request. I've just opened up AI for the first time today (it's a prebuilt file for me). I have a political map of the world all in shades of gray. Through the course of a video, as we cut back to it, we want to highlight different sections. I have about 20 files, all with different areas highlighted. And I could just fade the other ones in as we bring a lot of them into the video. The only problem with that, though, is I'm building this flat image ito a "3d" model in AE. Is there a way to just add color to different sections of the map (now a globe), as it turns?

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New problem:
I'm importing a vector image of a map of the world. I need to be able to zoom into parts. I've used CC Sphere to turn it into a globe. As I zoom in, it doesn't hold it's vector look, and gets fuzzy. Ideas?

have you tried to click rasterize? Im not sure if it will work in your case.

Yeah, it doesn't do anything. All vector imaging is lost with CC sphere