[Alan Lacey]

Yea, I know, lame isn’t it!

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Yes, I’d like to find out more about this too.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Adam,

I’ve downloaded a Maya plgin that exports to FBX, seems to do the job, very slow though on my machine. Don’t see any way of getting an obj file out of Maya. I’m a very naive user though.

Regards Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Also, just stumbled on this:-
https://www.maxoncomputer.com/tutorial_detail.asp?tutorialID=54&site=

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Sorry I dont really understand your problem.

If you only have a photograph of a round basketball you will not have enough information for a Mercator projection.

If OTOH you already have a mercator (just like a rectangler grid thing) that you want to map to the sphere set your mapping prjection type to ‘sphere’ in the texture tag.

Dont know whether this helps.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Wow, thanks guys I’ll give them a go.

What a great resource the Cow is.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Post your results, let’s have a look 🙂

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

3DKiwi’s new BP tutorial DVD is a must have IMHO.

From an unbiased BP newbie.

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Brian, I’ll give it a go

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

The only reference I’ve found for it is in German. Is there an English volume?

Alan