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how would i adapt the manual circle equation (cx+cos(angle)*rad,cy+sin(angle)*rad) into one for a sphere?

you don't want the circle equation, you want the sphere equation

for any particular angle THETA and PHI (lets say theta (ill say T) goes from 0 to 360 on the Y axis (XZ plane) and PHI goes from -90 to 90 degrees. that's longitude and latitude basically. you could have a function that gets each point on a sphere, eg, get a point for each angle pair where THETA = 0 to 360 step (sphere_resolution_longitude) and PHI = -90 to 90 step (sphere_resolution_latitude). so, if you want a point every 15 degrees, you step 15 degrees in the for-next statement

so now we use spherical coordinates to get an XYZ point for a particular pair of angles (THETA, PHI) and a distance (R)... sound familiar? it's the spherical coordinate system taught in second and/or third semester calculus (integrals and multivar) and prob precalc

wikipedia has the equations to get cartesian (XYZ) from spherical (THETA, PHI, R): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_coordinates

X = R * cos(PHI) * sin(THETA)
Y = R * sin(PHI) * sin(THETA)
Z = R * cos(THETA)

be sure to make rotational adjustments if required, eg, if your coordinate system on paper doesn't match the coordinate system in gamespace. dbpro starts, as 0 degrees on y axis, well idk... in the positive z direction? that'd make sense, but i don't know. maybe someone can answer that

so, with all these points XYZ for each point on the sphere,

simply make triangles or plains connecting adjacent ones in the correct sequence!

texturing something made, in dbpro commands, from a bunch of plains; that is a tough thing to do i would think. though i suppose they could each be individually textured, it'd take some working to get it seamless

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just curious, why not make a pre-texture-uv-mapped sphere? are different plains going to roll into defined places, like a broken spherical marble constructing itself, sort of like an animation? or what?

ok that sorta worked, if somewhat strangely

but now i have a question, why arent the plains all pointed at 0,0,0?

edit:
woops didn't read the code all the way

and as for what im doing with it, im not actually making a sphere, picture a sphere with the vertices adjusted enough to where you can see between them, so it looks like a bunch of plains floating, only they're all pointe towards the center of the circle

im making this for my entry in the current challenge, shoot the plains (textured with targets) and they disappear, see how many you can hit in a certain amount of time