Hello,

I stumbled across POV-Ray a couple of weeks ago, did a few of the tutorials
and got hooked.

As I am learning I found a couple of 'projects' I could work on to keep
things interesting.

I decided to make a Weeble* as it looked relativly easy.

I have a Weeble shape, and have it broken in to the following bits:

Top Cap,Bottom Cap,Body Outer (clear), made using a lathe and cutting off
bits I didn't want to see.

Body Inner - made with slightly smaller lathe.

My problem is trying to put the image of the dog on the uneven suface of the
weeble. The weeble has a face in the middle and on either side are the ears
with a tail at the back so the PNG image is being wrapped using the
cylinder mapping.

The face appears ok but the top and bottom of the ears are skewed backwards.

I assume this is because the very top and bottom are curved inwards and
POVRay is adjusting the image to fit.

I have tried using GIMP to skew the top and bottom back but it does not
really help.

Has anyone here tried mapping an image completely around an egg shape
before?

Any tips on what I could try to do to at least minimise the warping?

Thanks in advance

Leslie

*for those who do not know, a Weeble is an egg shaped toy with a weight in
the bottom so it always stands up. There seem to be two types, one is only
rounded at the bottom, the other, like the one I am working on is
completely egg shaped.

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