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FROGGIE!
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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 18:49 Edited at: 10th Oct 2005 18:50
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What would be the best way of making a seamless sphere. I mean one that is going to look seamless from any rotation. The one im currently using is splitting the texture at the top and bottom where it turns into triangles instead of squares(2 triangles together) and i need a way of stopping this happening.



Ive tried using the sky spheres from darkmatter but they dont show anything at the top or bottom, so is this even possible. Im using it to create a swirling cloud effect.

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dark coder
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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 22:08
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i think its impossible to make a seamless sphere unless the texture your using is rather basic,

it would be better to use skyboxes as you dont get this problem, but its easy enough to weld those few verts at the top and resmooth the normals, then it should look good


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Posted: 12th Oct 2005 03:38
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Seamless Spheres:



I've attached a Seamless sphere in this post.


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BenDstraw
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Posted: 13th Oct 2005 01:24
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Max calls those geo spheres


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dark coder
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Posted: 13th Oct 2005 01:54
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most apps do,

i was refering to the textures myself not the fact that the spheres have no holes in


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FROGGIE!
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Posted: 13th Oct 2005 19:56
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Yeah i was reffering to the textures but thanks for posting, although it does give me an idea, so long as each of those triangles are identical i could texture each poly indiviually with a seamless triangle image.

Thanks for the help guys
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Posted: 17th Oct 2005 22:05
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With the sky sphere you have there, add this code:
xrotate object ID,object angle x(ID)+90
but replace ID with the object number.

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Posted: 17th Oct 2005 22:09
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better to solve problems than hide them :p


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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 17th Oct 2005 22:39
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why not judt move all the contents according to the players postion?

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Posted: 18th Oct 2005 14:45
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how will that fix anything


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Posted: 18th Oct 2005 20:39
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Quote: "better to solve problems than hide them :p"

Yeah but in this case the problem is the visible seams so hiding them is solving.

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Posted: 19th Oct 2005 14:01
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but for all you know his sky turns around or the ship can loop around the map or something, and hiding isnt solving it just creates more possible problems, like if he added more features to the game as i said above ^


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Posted: 19th Oct 2005 21:07
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The gameplay was 2D. If he wants it to rotate he can use a different axis.

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Posted: 20th Oct 2005 20:12
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The game is 2d/3d so the camera will never see anything more than a down view, so rotating it seems like the best option.

Btw the sky that will be rotating wont actually need to be seemless as it will be just particles (stars etc...), so the seams that are in the picture wont really be noticable.

Thanks again.
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2005 07:47
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Since the 'seams' seem to be due to lighting. Set the ambient of the sphere to 100% and the lighting programs will disappear. I'm a little rusty with DBPro, so I can't rattle off the commands required. You may not even need them if you tweak the material settings of the model before you load it.
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