A cylindrical image map will wrap all the way around the ball, regardless of
wether once is used. My png-s are covering an 40 deg. angle. To avoid they
getting stretched beyond recognition, I would have to make them looong. 

sig.

Steve wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:53:29 +0100, Sigmund Kyrre Aas <as### [at] studntnuno> wrote:
> >Anton Sherwood wrote:
> >>
> >> Sigmund Kyrre Aas wrote:
> >> > * How do I prevent the image maps from appearing at the reverse side?
> >>
> >> I haven't used image maps, but isn't there a cylindrical map type?
> >
> >Yes. But then I have to make the maps 4 times bigger, cause they wrap all the
> >way around. And I like to keep memory usage down. I'm using a radial pigment
> >map now, just as Josh English suggested earlier in this thread.
> 
> 4.7.8.9.1 The once Option
> Normally there are an infinite number of repeating image maps,
> bump maps or material maps created over every unit square of the
> x-y-plane like tiles. By adding the once keyword after a file
> name you can eliminate all other copies of the map except the one
> at (0,0) to (1,1). In image maps, areas outside this unit square
> are treated as fully transparent. In bump maps, areas outside
> this unit square are left flat with no normal modification.  In
> material maps, areas outside this unit square are textured with
> the first texture of the texture list.
> 
> For example:
> 
>   image_map {
>     gif "mypic.gif"
>     once
>   }
> 
> --
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