[adamwade]

Is it me or is there a problem with Rhino's (v4) spherical mapping widget ? I'm trying to make a circular brushed metal pattern, which I would normally use a standard horizontal brush map with a sphere projector. If the sphere mapping widget is rotated so that the polar end of the sphere is pointing normal to the object surface then I used to get a circular brushed material. Now I only get a weird jagged line mess.

Any thoughts ?

Thanks,

Adam

[JDHill]

Generally, I'd take that to mean you need a finer tesselation on the object being mapped. What happens if you use Obj Props > Custom Mesh to do that?

[polynurb]

just adding to what JD mentioned, i have seen that sometimes rhino v4 doesn't pick up custom mesh changes immediately.

in your case, to be 100% sure, run "refreshShade" command on the object in question, it will force the rebuild of the rendermesh.

also if your object is a flat plane, or has several planar faces, you will need to set the max edge length attribute in detailed controls settings to get a finer tesselation.(make sure simple planes is NOT checked)

-daniel

[adamwade]

Wow ! I can't believe that was it. I thought it was a bug for the last year....

Thanks so much JD & Polynurb.