Strange poles of a textured sphere...

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TechX12
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Strange poles of a textured sphere...

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I want to make a simple rotating earth app, but the textured sphere looks strange on its poles :( . Please help!

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ceyron
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Re: Strange poles of a textured sphere...

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That always happens with normal spheres try using a geodesic sphere or map a cube to a sphere instead
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Re: Strange poles of a textured sphere...

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Should be avoidable, though, by properly coloring the texture at the pole elements.
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