[Papervision3D] Problems while texturing a simple Sphere

[Denis Laprise]

I'd suggest using the technique described at http:// 
local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/texture_colour/spheremap/
Worked fine for me.

Denis

On 19-Jun-07, at 3:52 PM, ricardo cabello ! mr.doob wrote:

> But seems like it's not only the sphere UV mapping but the UV mapping
> of PV3D, isn't it?
>
> :?
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> On 6/19/07, Denis Laprise <dlaprise at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've experienced the same problem; it seems that the UV mapping in
>> the sphere primitive is incorrect.
>>
>> Denis
>>
>> On 19-Jun-07, at 2:30 PM, ricardo cabello ! mr.doob wrote:
>>
>>> Hello again guys,
>>>
>>> I was trying to have a simple world in 3D and I was using a texture
>>> like this one:
>>>
>>> http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.map.jpeg
>>>
>>> I don't know who did the sphere primitive that goes with
>>> papervision3d, but I guess it doesn't use a cylindrical UVmap, does
>>> it? My world in 3D looks like this:
>>>
>>> http://mrdoob.com/temp/pv3d_spheremapping/pv3d_sphere_mapping.jpg
>>>
>>> So, as I wasn't able to control the UVmap, I decided to do a  
>>> geosphere
>>> with 3dsmax and apply the UVmap there, and then export to ASE.
>>>
>>> This is how the north pole (the area that usually has more problems)
>>> looks in MAX:
>>>
>>> http://mrdoob.com/temp/pv3d_spheremapping/max_sphere_mapping.jpg
>>>
>>> But when exporting to ASE and trying it with PV3D (it also happens
>>> with Collada) it looks like this:
>>>
>>> http://mrdoob.com/temp/pv3d_spheremapping/pv3d_ASEsphere_mapping.jpg
>>>
>>> Did anybody had this problem before? Am I missing something?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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