Recent content by shlomi

OK.. thanks for your patient... i'll try it.

attached sphere1.jpg and cBookMerkator.jpg for the previous post

as i understanding, the distortion is needed. to show you that - i took the same 2d image like before (2d.png) and i added a non-distorted object on it (the gray one) but i left the distorted one (yellow), now, you can see those objects on the sphere (sphere1.jpg, sphere2.jpg and sphere3.jpg)...

i already have the process against the DB, mean i have an image pattern for each object i have on the DB and i can draw it on the big texture based on the object's coordinate (long, lat). but after that all of the objects are draw on the big image, i need to distort the image to be like image...

the #4th image for the previous replay (!)

hi guys. i'll did some illustration to show you a little bit more clearly what is my problem: there are attached images: 1. planet2d.png 2. 3dWithoutRotation.jpg 3. 3dWithRotateSouth45Deg.jpg 4. 3dWithNorthPoleOnCenter.jpg (you can see it on the next post - since this forum allowed max...

level 1 and 2 are 2D but the only difference is that level 1 is actual data (flash objects: grid, trees, lights etc) and level 2 is the textures that render (offline on the server) to show level's 1 objects. for our conversation it's the same or moreover, level 1 shouldn't be discuss of since i...

but my client's engine know to take a distorted images and wrap a sphere with it, like you can see http://www.flashandmath.com/advanced/sphere/" , so the 'weird' picture you send me without distortion can't wrap my sphere. am i right?

as i understood.. the image i sent before (earthFor3d.jpg) it's designed to wrap the sphere, this is why it's distorted. the image you sent it's just an illustrating of how the sphere looks like when you spread it without the distortion but it's not helping me since i need to work in the both...

DrGreg, i'm try to understand from what you said how can do the 2d images rendering? i have a data that stored on the DB, the data is the objects that each user have on his grid, i need to run on this data and draw it on some 2d image, after that i need to make the distortion so that it'll...

sure.. the distortion is required anyway but I'm trying to find a solution to make a regular image and then distort it that it'll be proper to the 3d wrapping. as i understood, it's should be distort above and below the equator.. but it's should be with some mathematics function (something like...

so if i want to create image like 1.jpg but with my own data on it do you meant i can't generate it?

oh.. i forgot the 'w', it's should be "wow.. now it's clearly.." BUT BE AWARE - I'm an Hebrew speaker so - as you can see - my English is not so fluent (saying the least). :) about your questions: about programming, I'm 4+ years programmer but in the games field just in the last year so...

wow.. no it's clearly.. but now i have another question: in my 1st post here, i mentioned that i have different view levels: the 2d textures level and the 3d texture level. the 2d is rectangle that devides to coordinates as you can see on the attached (11.jpg), this mean that i have...

i don't understand. the longitude range (from (-180) to 180) should be longer than the latitude range (from (-90) to 90), in the attached images (1.gif) from the article you sent me seems like the latitude's range is longer.