Re: How do I tile a sphere ?

"> some ideas:
>
> to tile the sphere you can use gluSphere() (www.delphigl.com) or some
more 
> native approach subdivide icosahedron (20 triangles). gluSphere() does
the 
> texture-vecs for you.
>
> to speed up texturing check resident textures (glAreTexturesResident(), 
> glPrioritizeTextures()). you can load (all/part) of the textures in the 
> fast graphics buffer.
>
> use only a half-sphere and only rotate the texture(s), maybe via your
own 
> pixel-shader. but i think this is advanced stuff.
>
> cheers, chris

Chris,
    I plan on using the native approach and am currently doing lots of 
reading and Googling using the terms
you guys have suggested in this NG.
Your comments have given me a few more things to search on so many thanks 
for that.

Lynton