disco ball

[dilaima]

please can someone help me creating like this effect in lightwave, i know it should be easy, but i cant figure the way to do it, any help would be appreciate, i'm in hurry to finish this item, thanks in advance

[Surrealist.]

I believe disco balls are basically just mirrors and the color comes from the lights.

Like this one:

http://monica3800.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/vics_disco_ball_body_254x264.jpg

Or this one:

http://www.hermann-uwe.de/files/images/disco_ball.preview.jpg

And as you can clearly see on the last one, the squares are offset like tile.

You could put a smaller ball on the inside, color it black. Then the slightly larger one one the outside you could select each row of the ball, then cut and paste. Then simply rotate each one a few degrees to get the offset. And finally use bevel with a small amount of shift and inset to make the little mirrors.

Apply reflectivity, add some colored lights around it or an image set to world coordinates and spin it with ray trace reflections.

That would be one way to try it, quick and dirty.

One thing I am not sure about how to do is the volumetric reflections like in the first example. Other than faking it with a few spotlights set to volumetric I am not sure.

[dilaima]

thanks Surrealist for ur reply, the fact that m not looking for real disco ball, all i need is exactly the same attached ball, the same effect, here i have 2 questions:
1- how to apply a clear spherical uv, without pole pinch, other than adding sds level, coz this not help?
2- how to apply such an effect map on the sphere?
i tried uv diffuse color map, it didnt helped.
i tried an enviro map to be reflected by the sphere, and it didnt helped, the reflection is so weird.
what i'm looking for, is not a reflected image, but in fact i want a same effect for colored faces, with gradation in color for neighbor faces, showing a reflection effect. is this hard to clone, i dunno how to reach it.

[Surrealist.]

I am not really sure what effect you are trying to get.

Take a look at this thread (http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62229&highlight=mosaic).

[dilaima]

i get this one solved, this is what i get so far.