How do you texture a UV sphere?!?!

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I can't seam to do this, I have my UV map, but no matter what I do, the seams look horrible!

Model (wip - 112 polys):


UV Map (wip):

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What exactly do you want to paint?

Sides, top, front? You could project it if you don't need details on all sides or try to sphere map it.

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Depending on the needs, you can either spheremap a sphere in Wings, then distort it and then rework the distorted areas of the map later on, or you can use a cylinder map, with caps (in Wings, just cut the tips of those things off, map those with unfolding, map the main length by unfolding).

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Thanks for the advice, but I deiced to remodel it without using spheres.
Anyway, I'll post the project in Mod development later.