"Rick Seiden" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
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> OK. I've checked the documentation on this, and couldn't find what I was
> looking for.
>
> I have a simple vision:  A ball wrapped with a bitmap.  I use the
image_map,
> and it is a sphere wrapped with the bitmap four times, twice in each
> hemisphere.  I was hoping to get it to go all the way around.
>
> So, I looked into the docs, and found the "once" parameter.  Tried that,
and
> it has the bitmap in the top half of one hemisphere, not all the way
> around.
>
> Don't know what else to do besides that.
>
> Thanks
> Rick

it sounds like you are using the (default) map_type of 0 which is planar and
(without scaling and translating) would likely do what you are seeing.  What
you want to use is map_type 1 (spherical) with your sphere originally
centred at the origin (<0,0,0>), this wraps and warps the image to a sphere,
once has no effect on this type.  See "6.7.12.7.2 The map_type Option" in
the docs.

-tgq

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