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>> how to wrap an image (iff, gif or whatever) around a sphere. DPaint4+ (3?) will do this with IFF. It will even do it over multiple frames in an animation (RAlt+leftclick). I'm experimenting with it now, as I'm trying to come up with some ToolManager dock anim's in the NewIcon style (finally got the pallete right, whew) For GIF's, the utility GfxCon will convert GIF's, JPEG's, etc to IFF. And of course, it will convert your IFF's to whatever. If you have DPaint, right click on the fill gadget and choose wrap. After you've "picked up" your image. Hope this helps, Carl. Okay, okay, you lurkers…. 1) Open DPaint to whatever screen mode. Then load your IFF image (if not IFF then use GfxCon to convert it). If the default screen mode is wrong you will be prompted to change screen modes. Click on Yes. 2) Clear your screen. Make a sphere (filled circle). Load your image as a brush. Go to palette, choose Palette, Use brush. 3) Right click on the fill gadget. Choose Wrap. Okay. 4) Click on the sphere. You should see your image "wrap" around your sphere. 5) If you need multiple sphere in different sizes, right click on the lower half of the Sphere gadget. Choose wrap. 6) For anim's, again choose the Fill gadget but you'll have to hold down the left Alt button when you left click on your sphere. This is helpful for wrapping a picture of a planet around a sphere and having it rotate. For a rotating planet you'll need an anim brush, but we ALL know how to do those, don't we? 🙂 (I'm such a tease) – Phillip, on AutoPilot 1.80 _____T_____ Going Amiga 'till the Sun goes Nova! * * O * * B5>ST.all

Carl, DigiPaint was one of the early Amiga paint s/w your thinking about I think. It did some very fine texture mapping onto a sphere. Not sure if IM R/t or ADPro can do the job now??? Good question… I'd just use LW or some other 3D package to do it, kinda overkill though. ….John

Carl, <I need to find out how to wrap an image (iff, gif or whatever) around a sphere. I seem to remember one of the older paint programs that did this quite easily (was it the digipaint I sold?). I have quite a few paint and imaging software packages but cannot find one that does this.> I don't know about DigiPaint as I didn't get along with it too well and so didn't use it much. Photon Paint does it, and possibly SpectraColor (OXXI) as well. Asha Another day, another million colors

ImageFX 2.x can wrap images on a sphere with true raytraced lighting and all. The paint packages simulate this with a simple warp that compresses the image into a circle, not a sphere. Kermit Woodall Nova Design, Inc.