Greetings,

After binding a texture, is it possible to free the image memory and still be able to use the texture? For example:

int LoadGLTextures()	// Load Bitmaps And Convert To Textures
{
	int Status=FALSE;	// Status Indicator

	// Load The Bitmap, Check For Errors.
	if (LoadTGA(&texture[0], "Data/Uncompressed.tga") &&
	    LoadTGA(&texture[1], "Data/Compressed.tga"))
	{
		Status=TRUE;	// Set The Status To TRUE

		for (int loop=0; loop<2; loop++)// Loop Through Both Textures
		{
			// Typical Texture Generation Using Data From The TGA 
			glGenTextures(1, &texture[loop].texID);	// Create The Texture
			glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[loop].texID);
			glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, texture[loop].bpp / 8, texture[loop].width, texture[loop].height, 0, texture[loop].type, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texture[loop].imageData);
			glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
			glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);

			if (texture[loop].imageData)	// If Texture Image Exists 
			{
				free(texture[loop].imageData);	// Free The Texture Image Memory 
			}
		}
	}
	return Status;	// Return The Status
}