nurbs sphere not 'perfect' :(

Support Modeling
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In 2.49 and 2.5 I have found that the nurbs sphere has quadrant-like creases (‘hot-cross buns’ pattern). This is messing with the surface quality of my surface normal textures.
It is immune to resolution increases. I even tried re-entering the exact weight values for a sphere.

Anybody know why this is? I read somewhere they aren’t true ‘rational’ NURBS for usability reasons, but I don’t know what the fix would be either. (please no suggestions to use polys)

BTW, the issue is still there in the nurbs branch…I tried that too.

thanks

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go to the new nurbs tool thread and ask the questions there
you might get a respons from one of the dev !

salutations

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you can change the preview and render resolutions of the sphere in the properties window. Best to post a pic of what the actual issue is.