Hello,
I am trying to enable mipmapping within my opengl code and am having trouble getting it to work correctly. The textures seem to fade to black with this being directly related to the resolution of the texture. The smaller the resolution the further the viewable distance. I have included some screenshots to more adequately convey what I am saying:
Texture size 512x512:
http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/8711/mipmappingissuetexturespm4.png
Texture size 256x256:
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8998/mipmappingissuetextureshz3.png
Texture size 128x128:
http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/8683/mipmappingissuetexturesmv9.png
Texture size 64x64:
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7831/mipmappingissuetexturesvh6.png
Those screenshots were all taken with these lines in my code:
glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR);
glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR);
gluBuild2DMipmaps(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_RGB, width, height, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, image);
If these lines are instead replaced with (essentially disabling mipmapping):
glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, 3, width, height, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, image);
then I get the following output (which is what I'd expect):
Without mipmapping - Texture size 512x512:
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/1125/mipmappingdisabled512x5zi4.png
I'm using the ppm file format for my textures, and my best guess is that the issue may be related to how the image data is stored, or that it may be due to the large file sizes (the 512x512 is 2.4MB) I wanted to check that this wasn't something else before I write a file loader for another format so that I can test this theory. I've worked on the problem on and off for a few days now and haven't been able to find a solution. Any advice that anyone has will be appreciated.
Thank you all for your time.
