What image file format good at compress?
Implementing a PNG loader is quite difficult, I recommend looking into libpng if you want to use it in your applications:
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
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http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
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Depending upon the API you are targetting, PNG loading may already be built in. Both DirectX and GDI+ have built-in support for PNG loading. With other APIs, your mileage may vary, but you probably want to check before doing a lot of work integrating libpng or such into your game/engine.
quote:Original post by gmcbay
Depending upon the API you are targetting, PNG loading may already be built in. Both DirectX and GDI+ have built-in support for PNG loading. With other APIs, your mileage may vary, but you probably want to check before doing a lot of work integrating libpng or such into your game/engine.
A lot of work ? You mean the 40 lines of code needed to include libpng into a texture or image loader ? The 2 minutes it takes to essentially copy and paste the example code that comes with libpng ?
Use libpng, it''s a very good library. Very easy and simple to use, platform independent, and high standard conformance.
I also recommend using png, but I use SDL_image to load it. It works nicely, but may only make sense if you are already using SDL.
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