Free plugin to stop polar pinch

[Starshipwright]

Flaming Pear has a package of free photoshop plugins available at thier website. It includes Sphere Wrap A & Sphere Wrap B, 2 tools for eliminating the polar pinch when wraping a sphere with a square texture. Check out some of thier other products, they have a lot that would be useful in making Celestia textures.

Their products are available in both Windows and Mac versions

You can find them at :
http://www.flamingpear.com

[ElChristou]

Tx for the info! Go for a test...

[ANDREA]

Flaming Pear has a package of free photoshop plugins available at thier website. It includes Sphere Wrap A & Sphere Wrap B, 2 tools .....You can find them at :
http://www.flamingpear.com

Sorry Starshipwright, I searched but didn't find Sphere Wrap A anywhere with Google.
Are here?
http://www.flamingpear.com/goodies.html
Can you give the exact page, please?
Thanks a lot
Bye

Andrea

[Cham]

I've just downloaded the "Sphere Warp A" and "Sphere Warp B" plug-ins (they are included in the free package, and their name isn't shown on the download page). There are no settings for those plug-ins, and I already made a quick conclusive test. Here we go :

I used this simple rocky texture, at a 1024 X 512 resolution :


Warped on a sphere gives this in Celestia, with the pinch effect clearly visible :


Then, I applied the "Sphere Warp A" plug-in, which gives this, on the original texture :



In Celestia, this gives this effect (the pole is clearly visible on this picture) :


Then, I applied the "Sphere Warp B" plug-in on the original texture, which gives this :


In Celestia, this gives this effect :


So, it appears to me these plug-ins could be very usefull for giant gaz planets, but not on Earth like planets or moons.

[ElChristou]

Yep, I also done a quick test and unfortunatly this is not the ultimate tool against the pinch effect...