Weird UV Map for a sphere - angle DOES matter

[Vince_EnVacances]

I was confused by the sphere map I was getting :

The I saw capricas_kirito’s post

An old problem Revisited and solved

Wow… so the last lecture I posted on was 174 and here I am at 187… In the intervening lectures, while quite informative, there was nothing that applied to the project I selected for this section. I was actually beginning to dispare at the idea that I might make it all the way through the section and find nothing applicable to my project. So, when UV Unwrapping came up, I was relieved to say the least. Just for some extra practice, I decided to work on getting an accurate globe, well mostly ac…

and I undertood !

To get a really easy UV Map to edit, take your objet from a good angle, ex : from the right sid (NumPad 3) in Ortho projection (NumPad 5).

To get a new map, don’t forget to Mesh -> UV Unwrap -> Reset