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Sphere Warp

 

What it does

Sphere Warp bends square tiles to make them suitable for texture-mapping a sphere without the ugly pinch at the poles.

 

How to install

To use this software, you need a paint program which accepts standard Photoshop 3.0 plugins.

Just put the plug-in filter into the folder where your paint program expects to find it. If you have Photoshop, the folder is Photoshop:Plugins:Filters or Photoshop:Plug-ins. You must restart Photoshop before it will notice the new plug-in. It will appear in the menus as Filters->Flaming Pear->Sphere Warp.

Most other paint programs follow a similar scheme.

If you have Paint Shop Pro: you have to create a new folder, put the plug-in filter into it, and then tell PSP to look there. In PSP's menus, choose File-> Preferences->General Program Preferences (PSP versions 5 and 6) or File->Preferences->File Locations (PSP version 7). Next, click the Plug-in Filters tab. Use a "Browse" button to choose the folder. The plugin will appear in the menus as Image->Plug-in Filters->Flaming Pear->Sphere Warp.

 

Results

There are no controls. Just load up a square tile and choose Sphere Warp A or Sphere Warp B.

You will probably want to use two copies of the warped tile side-by-side to make an equirectangular sphere map.


sphere with plain square tile


Sphere Warp A


Sphere Warp B

 


Version History

Version 1.0 March 2003

The first release.

 



Questions

Answers to common technical questions appear on the support page.

For bug reports and technical questions about the software, please write to support@flamingpear.com .