Are you wanting to load the textures with OGL and use OGL to place a part of one image on top of the other? Or do you want to do this on the CPU, and then load the final texture to OGL?

Slaru

If I understand you right I think you probably want a combination of GL_EXT_framebuffer_object and glCopyTexSubImage2D. Basically, bind your source texture as the read buffer and then glCopyTexSubImage2D to your destination texture.

I'm not saying there isn't an easier or more efficient way, but that's the best I could come up with at short notice.

Enigma

You're drifting from one thing to another, so I'll split my post up to make it a little easier to follow.

In your first post, you say you want to add a part (here-by known as SUB_1) of a texture (here-by known as TEX_1), and you want to insert that into another texture (here-by known as TEX_2), specifically, a sub-part of TEX_2 (here-by known as SUB_2).

In your second post, you say you want to add the entire image TEX_1 to some part of TEX_2 (SUB_2).

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OK, I'll try to do this real pretty like...



Now inserting TEX_1 into SUB_2 is easy, you just need to use glTexSubImage2D.

On the other hand, if you wanted to add SUB_1 to SUB_2, you'll need to use glCopyTexSubImage2D to read the frame buffer into another texture (here-by known as TEX_3). The only easy way to do this would be to set up a orthogonal projection matrix (2D, -1,-1 to +1,+1 would do), use glRasterPos2d() (no opengl.org page on this, so you'll need to google it if you don't understand how it works), create your texture (TEX_3), with a width and height (which should be the dimensions of SUB_1, which should also be be power-of-twos if your videocard doesn't support non-power-of-two textures) then use glDrawPixels to draw all of TEX_1, bind TEX_3 to GL_TEXTURE_2D, then use glCopyTexSubImage2D to copy SUB_1 into TEX_3. From there, you use glTexSubImage2D() (seen in the method above) to copy TEX_3 into SUB_2.

I could be wrong about that being the easiest method, but then again, I changed bits and pieces of it quite a few times, so the whole thing's probably messed up quite a bit...

At any rate, that *should* get you what you required from your first post, and is obviously far more difficult than the requirements of your second post...

Enigma, the FBOs would be nice, but from what I've heard, the only support for them is in beta drivers (but then again, maybe I've been reading too many old threads again...). It'd make it far easier than doing this...

I suppose you could always use a pbuffer...

Maybe I'm complicating things too much...