Irrlicht Engine

I tried to load it into Irredit and it looks horrible, just like it does in Irrlicht. I tried creating a sphere in Irredit and applying the texture to that sphere and it looks great. Is there a way to export that sphere so that I can use it in Irrlicht?

Thanks in advance!

I'll try irredit and see what I get.

My .bmp is 512 X 256. Do the deimensions have to be the same?

I am really new at this and I am using blender to make a model of planet earth. I create a UVsphere mesh, mark a seam down the center and unwrap its UV faces. I load in a .bmp as a texture and set it to sphere under the map input tab. It looks great in Blender rendered. When I export to .3ds and loa...