Thanks Falconius! That's exactly what I'm looking for! And I'm not worried about looks for this batch. They're purely for function. I need to be able to move a pattern of bands over the planet that are of equal length and be able to see pretty close to the actual surface area they'd cover. If that makes sense. It doesn't have to be *perfect* but more accurate is better. It cannot, however, be too interrupted (like this) or it will make moving the thread pattern around on the surface too tedious to calculate. I need to make a -lot- of these charts.

So I was thinking something like this: http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapPr...s180-R-z20.png .. but, is this not equal-area? Should I aim for at least three lobes?

I could find a happy medium with something like this: http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapPr...dal-s75-i3.png

I could just try to project all this onto a globe in ZBrush and have a REAL sphere to work with. But projecting these maps onto a ZB sphere with the Spotlight seems like it would be quite tedious.