Hi guys,
How do you know about spherical mapping ? I was wondering a uvw easy to paint over...
I sketched some of my try...
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The Idea 1 seems to be much easily to paint but the render doesn't work. The Both second and third one are powered by the Spherical mapping tool with default settings but aren't really helpfully to paint over...
idea 3 with one more ring on each pole is the way to go 
def idea 3
keep in mind to try to keep the uv as simple as possible, the more stiched it is without streching the better..
Quote from Warbyidea 3 with one more ring on each pole is the way to go
What do you mean more exactly ? Should I edit my mesh ?
http://artpad.art.com/?js6c7s1g93wo no just the uvmap
instead of just the highest "ring" you take the two highest rings. so in your uv map there would be only 2 rows left for the middle and then you have 2 rings!
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Awesome ! Thanks a lot !
ah, the old "cock n' balls" spherical mapping technique.
Hahahahaha that made my day.
yeah the newest one is how it should be
put right ball next to left ball so it won't waste space you can also cut the main strip into 2 and relax if you want more even uv sq.
If I move the left ball next to the right one, it might be harder to paint over the bottom sphere (which are the left ball) thought... no ?
I started to skin my model well thanks to Warbest and I'm nearly done. Gona peep it !
thats not a sphere its a smoothed cube 
no thats definitely also a good way to go about it but he asked how to specifically uv map HIS geometry which doesn't look like yours at all
This also makes it easy to texture it in such a way that there are no seams visible at all! Which clever texture artist can tell me how, you'll win my prize!
Do i win?
Clever techniques there, Peris and Whoot. Will come in handy sooner or later. 
Copy, paste, and rotate?
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