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  • Turning a sphere into a flat plane.

    Posted by Accountneedsrealnameupdate on January 23, 2007 at 8:21 pm

    Hey all,

    I’m trying to create an animation where a person is holding a globe, and the globe comes towards the camera. As it’s doing that it needs to flatten out to create a flat world map. What I’ve tried doing is creating a flat plane and adding a Spherify deformer. This gives me the look I need for the globe, but when it comes full frame the texture deforms. I’ve applied it to the plane using spherical mapping. I’ve tried UVW Mapping, but it gives me a slight bit of distortion in where the globe looks as if it’s being viewed through a fish eye lens.

    Thanks! Any help would be appreciated. I consider myself somewhere between a beginner/intermediate user, so any help is appreciated!

    Brian Jones replied 19 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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