"Sanix" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> Hello everybody
> I want to create a globe. But I don't know how to do that. Is it difficult
> to create a sphere and put the image around this sphere and then it's 
> done?
> I'm not sure because I've already downloaded a script but it doesn't work.
> Maybe I'm using it wrongly. The image doesn't fit to the sphere
> (http://planetpixelemporium.com/images/earthmaps/earthmap1k.jpg):
>

No it's not difficult.

camera {location  <-1,1,-1> look_at <0,0.5,0> angle 50}
light_source {<30, 10, -300> color rgb 2}

sphere {<0,0.5,0>,0.5
  pigment {
    image_map {jpeg "earthmap1k.jpg" map_type 2}
  }
}

gives a cylindrical mapping (map_type 2) which I think is probably right for 
this image.
For some images you may need a spherical mapping (depending on the type of 
projection used for the image). For example:

camera {location  <-3,1,-3> look_at <0,0,0> angle 50}
light_source {<30, 10, -300> color rgb 2}

sphere {0,1
  pigment {
    image_map {jpeg "earthmap1k.jpg" map_type 1}
  }
}

map_type 1 gives a spherical mapping of an image centred at the origin.

Regards,
Chris B.

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