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DaXiiD
07-19-2006, 09:32 AM
Has someone got a texture to be apllied on a sphere?
I have digged up the web and only found a turbosquid model.

It is the exact thing i need but 150 bucks is out of the projects budget. Maybe someone has a ide how to twist this texture to the right way. Tried using warp with photoshop but had no good results.

political earth: http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/international/Images/political_world.jpg
the way the texture should look like:
http://www.oera.net/How2/PlanetTexs/EarthMapAtmos_2500x1250.jpg

Please ,if you have any hints then please help. I am out of ideas.
EricChadwick
07-20-2006, 07:02 PM
USGS might be worth diggig around in
http://glovis.usgs.gov/
colintheys
07-20-2006, 10:59 PM
I don't know what software you're using, but it seems that it would be easy (if labor intensive) to just use that image as your texture and adjust the UVs by hand to match the shape on the drawing. Use a spherical projection and then scale each row of points in the UV editor horizontally to match the image so that there is minimized distortion. That is assuming that absolute accuracy isn't important of course.

-Colin

edit. yeah. so I got curious about something and ended up doing it for you. it worked. heh. here's the file.
http://www.theys.net/Colin/globe.obj
DaXiiD
07-21-2006, 10:24 AM
Big thnx, i wouldn't have tought it is that easy :)
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