Originally Posted by Insanity

a circle will look more like a circle in 1024x512 when mapped onto a sphere
that's what i think it does.
And oval shapes wil remain more alike the ones on the drawing when mapped.

Originally Posted by Veoo

Here are some in games to show you the distortion on the gears:

I'd try making them on 1024x512

here

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Originally Posted by Insanity

well, that diagonal line will mapp horribly onto a sphere. Try it and see for yourself.

Originally Posted by Headles

Should map it like that, let me search a tutoriall that helped me out back in the day.
Didnt map it perfectly btw just hope it will help you understand how torihead works.

Edit: mo.st older and more toward head mapping focussed tutorials have lost their pictures which is a shame : /
Found this one of Pate the most usefull one I could find in the tutoriall index.
http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=226357