I've been using Bryce 5.01 for about 4 months and of course love the software - probably too much. My question is simple, does anyone know of a way to warp a sphere into a plane? I want to animate a sphere unwrapping into a flat plane in order to illustrate the process of map-projection. I know you can't warp objects in Bryce - it says so in the help files and in Real World Bryce 4. Is there a way around this by some means or, possibly would you know of a package that could produce such an animation? I don't want to just flatten the sphere into an almost 2D object since the picture texture I am mapping (an earth map) won't be completely on one side and won't be of course rectangular or square as I would like it to be.

Thanks.
Mike