   Vertex data for sphere
  I'm learning how to apply textures to objects, and trying to map a texture onto a sphere using DX. I'm told there are graphics programs that will generate the vertex data, but are there any free ones available? Or maybe a tutorial for applying textures to spheres?Thanks   
  DirectX has a nice helper function calledD3DXCreateSphere, once this is created you can use the mesh it generates or you can lock and read the vertices out of the vertex buffer.- Dave   ;  If you search for "Octahedron sphere tessalation" you will be bound to find an article on how to make a sphere (with vertices!). I believe the one I used was from GDNet right here, so you could even look through the articles, or search the site (haha).As for applying texture coordinates to spheres, there's really nothing to it, assuming you know in which order your vertices go, and you know how you want your texture to be mapped. There are many articles on texturing, so do some digging, ey?Hope that helps.   