texture a planet in blender 2.57

Can you tell me how to unwrap a sphere, so it will go as a ractangle, because when I unwrap a spher开发者_JAVA百科e projection, it goes to very wierd UV map. I have the textures, but I cant use them, because of the UV map blender exports. Please help!

Thanks in advance!

You should be able to apply spherical mapping, without the need for UV mapping, but it's useful to know how to mark seams and control UV mapping. Check out this blendercooki tutorial