making smaller textures from a big texture
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hi friends
I use VS2008, I have some big textures (around 6000 x 6000 pixels or even larger), they are in BMP or JPG format, how can I divide them to several smaller textures, for instances I want to change my 6000x6000 BMP to 10x10 = 100 textures with 600x600 size, how can I perform it? any suggestion?
thanks in advance, any tips or samples would be highly appreciated
I think you'r thinking too much about programming. You can get this functionality from a photo editting tool like Photoshop. The "slice tool" will do exactly the thing you want.
If, however, you have been asked to do this for a project purely using programming then first you need to load your picture into a structure. Once it is in the structure this is just a looping problem. The pixels will be stored in an array of sorts, you just need to pull out the ones you want.
The solution would look like this:
for(y=0; y<height; y++)
{
for(x=0; x<width; x++)
{
savePixel(); // This would save the current pixel to a new structure
}
}
This is assuming a 2d array in you picture structure.
Hope I have understood the problem and helped a little.
If, however, you have been asked to do this for a project purely using programming then first you need to load your picture into a structure. Once it is in the structure this is just a looping problem. The pixels will be stored in an array of sorts, you just need to pull out the ones you want.
The solution would look like this:
for(y=0; y<height; y++)
{
for(x=0; x<width; x++)
{
savePixel(); // This would save the current pixel to a new structure
}
}
This is assuming a 2d array in you picture structure.
Hope I have understood the problem and helped a little.
Quote:Original post by vcGamer
hi friends
I use VS2008, I have some big textures (around 6000 x 6000 pixels or even larger), they are in BMP or JPG format, how can I divide them to several smaller textures, for instances I want to change my 6000x6000 BMP to 10x10 = 100 textures with 600x600 size, how can I perform it? any suggestion?
thanks in advance, any tips or samples would be highly appreciated
Take a look at imagemagick, it's a command line image processing tool. You can write a little script or .bat file to let the tool extract certain regions of your source file and save it to your target texture.
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