how do i make a spherical texture of an object?

[lorax]

heres what i want to do:

i have a soccer ball which consists of many leather patches.. each of the patches has its own texture. now i want to make myself a spherical texture of this object so i can use it on a lowpoly version of the ball (just a sphere)

how can i do this in softimage?

[NNois]

Hello,
Make a new UV projection like spherical on your object, then add a "rendermap" parameter on your mesh, it's all there and allow to render to a new map ;-)

[lorax]

thanks a bunch man!

very nice knowing this.. man.. this could save me heaps of time!