Thanks again for ya help NeoStrider. I have now moved this thread back to the WIP area.

http://forum.simplymaya.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=212649#post212649

I have also added a link to a...

Yes, very true. I did at first make a .png map in photoshop. It had a transparent alpha background with a grid patten layed on it. This worked well as maya used the alpha as the transparency (and...

and with a test texture on the tiles....

Well... Setting out the tiles to into a world map was fairly tricky. I have a nice world texture which I used a as template and simply overlayed it with a grid (80 units high x 40 units wide). To...

Sorry I should have explained.

The simple rotation on the playblast was just to display the completed model. These tiles will eventually be animated to fly at the rotating globe 1 at a time, as...

Thanks again for the quick replys. But I managed to sort it another way. Here is a playblast of the result...

http://www.kickarz.com/earth_tiles.avi (0.9MB DivX - right pick & save target as)

Many thanks for the suggestion gster123, I did give the bend deforms a quick try but wasn't getting the result I wanted. I'm not saying that they are not the way to do it, just that I couldn't make...

Now I would like to somehow curve or wrap these 'tiles' so they form a globe (see below).

Is this even possible & if so, anyone have any idea how it may be done????

Hi all,

I got a ticky question.... I have modeled 400+ polygon 'tiles' and placed them into a map of the world (see below)