Top 'O the mornin to all. I've been going through lots of tutorials which set up 3D Geometric models as C++ classes, and I decided to do a sphere from pseudocode myself. My sphere looks pretty good, but there's one problem: when I texture map it, there's a narrow, vertical strip where the texture repeats itself. I know I've heard about this problem before in one of my readings about mapping on spheres. My guess is that it comes from the fact that when I get to the last vertex in a row, the TU coordinate is 1.0, and the beginning vertex's TU coordinate is 0.0. Since I draw polygons from the last vertex to the first vertex in the rows to complete the circles, the texture is probably mapping from 1.0 to 0.0 on that polygon, and just interpolating backwards over the bitmap. So anyway. The only way I can think of to fix this problem is to add an additional column of vertices which have the same position/normal values as the FIRST column of vertices. Then I use that to connect the last polygons in a row, which should look the same but not result in that backwards little texture strip, because the vertices with TU of 1.0 and 0.0 are only getting used once. But is there way to do this without adding the extra column? For some odd reason I thought I remembered seeing an example which mentioned some kind of way you could modify the texture coordinates so that you didn't have to insert that dupliate column. Maybe I'm wrong though. In any case, adding a column won't be terribly hard, it just makes the indexing a bit more of a pain. Any known suggestions? Thanks much! Mike [Edited by - Michael Kron on August 30, 2005 1:44:18 PM]

Will you post images of the rendered sphere and the texture?

It will make figuring out the problem much easier.

Oh really? Shnaps! I just rotated an extra dTheta around the sphere axis, I was hoping making a point at 2PI would be identical to one at 0.

What does the rounding error do exactly? Gaps between the first and last polygon or something? It looks fine to me after applying that fix, but then I guess I haven't gotten *really* up close to it.

Mike