Hey Everyone,

I am an extremely new person to maya so this may be a very easy question.

I have a sphere and a JPEG/GIF of the moon. I want to apply the picture of the moon to the sphere for my scene. The problem is, the picture of moon is square and there is space between the moon itself and the edges of the picture. When I apply the image to the hypershade, the edges show up and it doesn't look right.

I hope this makes sense. I'm not sure what I need to do to get just the "moon" on the sphere and not everything else.

Chris, Baltimore