Applying Splines to Spheres?

Wells

I've a problem.

Lets say you want to make a planet in max.

You've got a 2d map of the land as a vector, imported as a spline. How would you go about getting that spline onto a sphere, for modeling? There's got to be some way...

My floundering around has gotten me nowhere.

Illusions

What program? If in maya you could make a Nurbs sphere the same size as your polygon sphere, project curves onto the nurbs sphere, seperate the curves from the Nurbs surface, then use the now spherical curves to model. I can't try this out ATM, so it may not be a perfect solution in maya.

Wells

Ah, sorry. Should have mentioned I'm in max. I wonder if thats viable in max.

Mark Dygert

Glue?

Wells

HUGZ

ThE_BirD

very cool... another option if you're using polyboost is to use the splines tool in the polydraw dialogue;)