Two suggestions:

First, try using the sphere_camera (spherical_camera) in MegaPOV.  To quote
from the docs, '...If you render an image with a 2:1 aspect ratio and map it to
a sphere using spherical mapping, it will recreate the scene!'

Secondly, if you're working with meshes, try using Steve Cox's UV Mapper:
http://home.pb.net/~stevecox/uvmapper.htm

Gilles Tran has a very helpful tutorial for working with it here:
http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/sources/tutuve.htm

Hope this helps...

ryan constantine <rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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| looking at the docs, i see that a cylindrical camera makes an image of
| the outside of the cylinder, which presumably has no radius.  what i
| would like to do is specify a radius (in order to envelope objects) and
| then create the image based on the inside of the cylinder.  this (i
| think) would have the effect of "unrolling" the object into two
| dimensions, ready to be used as a template for image maps, bumpmaps, or
| image pattern maps and could be rolled back onto the object using
| cylindical mapping.  this would eliminate the need to divide a model
| into two halves and then use planar image mapping as was done, for
| example, in h.e. day's raptor model.  a spherical cam that could also do
| this would be similarly useful.  would this be difficult to implement?
| do others think this would be useful?

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