OK, I'm currently adding texturing to Quake III maps that I have loaded... when I call gluBuild2DMipMaps with either of these 2 textures: textures/gothic_door/km_arena1columna2R.jpg textures/gothic_door/km_arena1columna2L.jpg it crashes... their dimensions are as follows: 66 x 640 for both I have ABSOLUTELY no idea as to why it crashes... IDK if its an internal file error, and my jpg loader doesnt recognize it(It should, it is libJPEG for christ sake), and the image loads in Photoshop just fine, so I'm sure its not the file. I read somewhere that glBuild2DMipMaps will automatically resize non ^2 textures to ^2 textures... is this correct? also, i believe there are other textures for other maps that are NOT ^2, and they work fine(I believe this is right, if I remember correctly...) yes, actually theres quite a bit of them, 320 x 768, 256 x 640 and more, and they all load fine If anyone has any clue as to what may be causing this problem, feel free to help! Thanks a bunch! ~ReKlipz PS, i can post the images themselves if someone wants to do testing with them, or if you have quake III, you can open the game00.pk3 file, and browse to the textures/gothic_door/km_arena1columna2R.jpg or textures/gothic_door/km_arena1columna2L.jpg and use that... thanks again!

OK, I just found a page that talks about glTexImage2D()

I am thinking about switching to use that... and using glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_GENERATE_MIPMAP, GL_TRUE) to generate mipmaps...

the post said that:
so as long as your driver supports OGL 1.4 (all Geforce and Radeons do with latest drivers), you can use it... (http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=252132), is this true?

my question is, should I convert to use glTexImage2D, and if so, what should i pass in for the level parameter of glTexImage2D...

thanks yet again!
~ReKlipz

Hi

check what the error is, I don`t remember right now, but glubuild2dmipmaps is supposed to return a glu error message if it fails. check what the error message contain. you can use gluErrorString to get more information.

Fredrik

well, srcformat and internal format are both being set to GL_RGB...

And now, for some weird reason, It works just fine, and loads the images... the only thing I changed was a memory leak in the TGA loader... but that shouldnt matter at all... but yet, when I comment out the free(colorbuffer) line that was the fix... It crashes... this is strange, but there is a TGA being loaded before it...

So I guess it wasnt a problem with gluBuild2DMipMaps in itself, some memory error was the case, I did check to see that gluBuild2DMipMaps was returning 0, and if not, log the error, but it never got that far, it crashed inside of gluBuild2DMipMaps...



thanks again for all your help!

answers to why the leak would cause the crash would be appreciated also(im fairly new to c++, this engine is my first endeavour with the language, but I have hade soem experience with DirectX 8 in VB, and that just wasnt cuttin it, lol)
~ReKlipz

Quote:... answers to why the leak would cause the crash would be appreciated also(im fairly new to c++, this engine is my first endeavour with the language, but I have had some experience with DirectX 8 in VB, and that just wasn't cuttin' it, lol)
~ReKlipz

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Quote:I read somewhere that glBuild2DMipMaps will automatically resize non ^2 textures to ^2 textures... is this correct?

yes but u should never use it for that in fact u should never use glubuildimages fullstop
use GL_GENERATE_MIPMAP instead much faster
if your textures are not power of 2 (and u want most users to use your program or care about higher performance)
open up the images in a paint program + either resize them to power of 2 or padd the border so its power of 2

Couldn't I just resize them using either the libpng(if the image is a png), or libjepg(if the image is a jpg), or use OGL to do it if it is something else(TGA)...

also, if anyone knows where i can find how to properly use glTexImage2d().. in replacement of glubuildmipmaps.. great thanks goes out to you also, lol

~ReKlipz

I suggest you keep using gluBuildMipmaps and use GL_GENERATE_MIPMAP if it's supported.

How to use glTexImage2D? It's in the GL spec.
Typically, for best performance textures should be 32 bit, BGRA format, so your call would be

glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA8, w, h, 0, GL_BGRA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texels)

Every card sends this directly to memory cause they support them natively.

Why don't you resize them using photoshop or irfanview or some such?

Well, I CAN do that, but I'm writing an engine, where even though no one else would really be using it(prob wont go public), I'd like it to be realisic, and not all the textures it gets will be ^2... in fact, the textures used by Quake III are not... so I feel I should support them, and why wouldn't you, if all it takes is a simple resize function...

get what I mean?

and as for the glTexImage2D(), If I want to make a level 3 mipmapped image(original img = 0, second smallest = 1 third smallest = 2, last = 3), how do i do that? like this?:
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA8, w, h, 0, GL_BGRA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texels)
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 1, GL_RGBA8, w0, h0, 0, GL_BGRA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texels0)
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 2, GL_RGBA8, w1, h1, 0, GL_BGRA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texels1)
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 3, GL_RGBA8, w2, h2, 0, GL_BGRA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texels2)

or do i somehow have all the imagedata in concession somehow and call this:
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 3, GL_RGBA8, w, h, 0, GL_BGRA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texels)?