How can I UV unwrap an Ico-sphere so it unwraps a a rectangle?

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Is there a way to unwrap an Ico-sphere so that it unwraps the same way as it would if you had a UV sphere and deleted the top and bottom vertices? I’ve already tried deleting the top and bottom vertices of an Ico-sphere and tried all the unwrap options and non of them work…does anyone have any ideas?

thanks

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I dont think you can. If you look at the segments they dont form straight edges anywhere. It might be possible if you take it apart carefully and put it back together by hand. But the texture will look very stretched.

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If you delete the right verticies, and unwrap with teh sphere option in orthographic view, you get this.

icosphere.jpg1600×900 214 KB

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I’m pretty much that far already but I want to put an image texture over it and I need a rectangle for that to happen.

Thanks anyway though