Mapping an image onto a sphere

[Attila_Schroeder]

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Put a shader on a sphere to make it look like a planet?

I made a little fictional custom solar system with spheres as planets rotating around a sun. I wanted to give the planets unique textures, but rather than make a gltf I thought it would be best to make some fractal type shaders to wrap around the planets. I’m having a really hard time finding an example of say a simple fractal texture that can wrap around a sphere. I found some simple examples in the book of shaders but I can’t get it to wrap around the sphere. Is there a dead simple example o…