Trying to make the earth - don't see the Mapping sub-menu In the "Realistic Earth" Blender Guru video by @andrewprice there is a handy submenu in Texture called "Mapping". It has "Sphere Projection" which allows an image to map to a UV sphere "automatically" without UV unwrapping. I'd like to try but don't see it in my Texture menu. 2.74, tried both Cycles and Blender render setting.


what can I do to get that "magic button"?
is there a better way (without UV unwrapping)? - although it's a classic, the video is almost
4 years old.


I'll treat UV unwrapping separately.

IMAGES:

Left: from YouTube (How to Create a Realistic Earth in Blender, Blender Guru), 

Right: my screenshot
Following the advice of @bortran I started watching Blender 2.7 Tutorial #12 : Image Textures &amp; Bump Maps #b3d and within minutes I made the earth.

Generated coordinates and just select Sphere in the Image Texture.