The Sphereoid Designer is a nifty tool. You can create spheres, planets and lots of
other effects. There are many presets that are included with Sphereoid Designer and
you can save your own presets also.
Using #77 Beach Ball preset as a base. I created this modification by changing some
of the settings.
#77 Beach Ball Preset OMS Yellow Orange Preset
The next three spheres were created without the aid of a preset base. I
imported bitmaps I had created for Blade Pro presets for the bump maps on these
spheres.
With Sphereoid Designer you are not just limited to "round" spheres.
Most any shape selection will work too.