.png files....
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Hello, i am using opengl for a game i am currtly working on, but i have been using 2 .bmp files (one for color and one for alpha) but im getting tired of that, so how can i use .png files in opengl? would i load the RGB into one texture, then the alpha into the other? if so how? im rather new to opengl/c++. sooo....thanks in advanced.
Quote:would i load the RGB into one texture, then the alpha into the other?
No, it'll all go in a RGBA texture [smile].
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Quote:Original post by Frunyok....how? :PQuote:would i load the RGB into one texture, then the alpha into the other?
No, it'll all go in a RGBA texture [smile].
Quote:Original post by kc_0045ok....how? :P
No, it'll all go in a RGBA texture [smile].
Depends on what library you use to load the image (e.g. DevIL, libPNG).
someone correct me if im wrong; however you load the .png file, the opengl textures have 4 values anyway. R,G,B,A.
Quote:Original post by sand_man
someone correct me if im wrong; however you load the .png file, the opengl textures have 4 values anyway. R,G,B,A.
You're wrong!
OpenGL textures can have at least these values:
format Specifies the of the pixel data. The following symbolic values are accepted:
GL_COLOR_INDEX, GL_RED, GL_GREEN, GL_BLUE,GL_ALPHA, GL_RGB, GL_BGR GL_RGBA, GL_BGRA, GL_LUMINANCE, and GL_LUMINANCE_ALPHA.
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ok thanks everone, does anyone know of any tutorials or samples using one of thoose librarys? as i am rather new to c++ and i tryed doing it my self, but with no luck :(
Quote:Original post by dotproductQuote:Original post by sand_man
someone correct me if im wrong; however you load the .png file, the opengl textures have 4 values anyway. R,G,B,A.
You're wrong!
Not entirely. OpenGL (as well as D3D) will not allow 3 component internal formats, but will expand them automatically to 4 components. So basically, if you specify GL_RGB as internal format, then OpenGL will override this choice by using GL_RGBA instead. You, as an API user, will usually not notice this. But you should keep it in mind when considering memory consumption: a 24bit RGB texture will take up exactly the same amount of memory on the video card as a 32bit RGBA texture, because of the automatic padding. So, if you're dealing with uncompressed colour textures, then try to make good use of the alpha channel, because it's going to be allocated no matter what you do. If you don't use it, then that space is wasted.
Quote:Original post by kc_0045
ok thanks everone, does anyone know of any tutorials or samples using one of thoose librarys? as i am rather new to c++ and i tryed doing it my self, but with no luck :(
libpng comes with a good example on how to load and save images. It's very simple.
Quote:Original post by Yann LQuote:Original post by dotproductQuote:Original post by sand_man
someone correct me if im wrong; however you load the .png file, the opengl textures have 4 values anyway. R,G,B,A.
You're wrong!
Not entirely. OpenGL (as well as D3D) will not allow 3 component internal formats, but will expand them automatically to 4 components. So basically, if you specify GL_RGB as internal format, then OpenGL will override this choice by using GL_RGBA instead. You, as an API user, will usually not notice this. But you should keep it in mind when considering memory consumption: a 24bit RGB texture will take up exactly the same amount of memory on the video card as a 32bit RGBA texture, because of the automatic padding. So, if you're dealing with uncompressed colour textures, then try to make good use of the alpha channel, because it's going to be allocated no matter what you do. If you don't use it, then that space is wasted.
That sir... is true ;)
If you're using SDL_image, the whole thing gets ridiculously easy:
Note that this code doesn't check for the correct image format and stuff, but it should work out of the box for any RGBA image with suitable dimensions. I also have a loader that only uses libpng, but that's a whole other story.
/* * --- Load a texture --- * * This is adapted from the texture mapping NeHe tutorial. */bool load_bind_texture( char* file, GLuint* ta, uint idx ) { /* Status indicator */ bool Status( false ); /* Create storage space for the texture */ SDL_Surface *TextureImage[1]; /* Load The Bitmap, Check For Errors, If Bitmap's Not Found Quit */ if ( ( TextureImage[0] = IMG_Load( file ) ) ) { Status = true; // bind to the given texture ID glBindTexture( GL_TEXTURE_2D, ta[idx] ); /* Generate The Texture */ glTexImage2D( GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, TextureImage[0]->w, TextureImage[0]->h, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, TextureImage[0]->pixels ); /* Linear Filtering */ glTexParameteri( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR ); glTexParameteri( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR ); } /* Free up any memory we may have used */ if ( TextureImage[0] ) SDL_FreeSurface( TextureImage[0] ); return Status;}Note that this code doesn't check for the correct image format and stuff, but it should work out of the box for any RGBA image with suitable dimensions. I also have a loader that only uses libpng, but that's a whole other story.
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