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Does anyone know if there's a plugin for the Gimp or Photoshop that will take a circle (picture of a moon from space) and stretch it horizontally into a square (suitable for making a texture)? Thanks.

Hi,

to put it straight forward - sorry, no. There are a few programs beeing able to 'paint' on real 3d models, hence they should be able to do spheres.

But I haven't found a grfx plugin doing Mercator / simple cylindric projection and reverse. Some versions of The Gimp allow to distort a given image and that may be a base to start coding, but you'd probably need to know PERL.

Other than that there are several sites dealing with the theorhetical details of the process but nobody really released usefull code. If you can program you can try to search for the keywords 'Mercator / simple cylindric projection' and try to implement it. A lot of people would love that.

CU, Axel

Thanks Axel. I found a photoshop plugin that I've been testing tonight that seems to do the job. Hopefully I can get my 8k Triton texture finished much quicker now.

Que? what plugin where? I would be very interested in thiis!!

It's the 'Flexify' plugin by Flaming Pear:
http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify.html
Enjoy!

Snagged it SWEET! Ungodly amount of settings hehe

Ortolan wrote: Hopefully I can get my 8k Triton texture finished much quicker now.