i ve a prob in my opengl project i must load textures (bmp) but i dont know why it takes so long and now i m searching a jpg loader or a way i can load textures faster like in all 3d games (i use the loading engine from http://nehe.gamedev.net) thanks

How many textures are you loading ? And how big are they (resolution, colour depth) ?

- AH

You might also like to try DevIL which can be downloaded from http://openil.sourceforge.net/
It can load all sorts of graphic formats, including bmp, jpg, tga and png.

the textures are all 50 mb big and they are 40 and the biggest resuluton is 1600+1200 (the surface of mars)the textureloading would not be a prob if i can find a way to load text in the opengl engine . when i include text ca 20 lines with 10 words the engine has a performance problem so i would need a solution of this prob too

thanks

> the textures are all 50 mb big and they are 40

You are loading 2GB textures ?!
Or did you mean, they make 50mb alltogether ?

Well I hope you meant the later. At current HD speeds, it would take around 2 to 3 seconds, if you are directly streaming your data to memory.

Something like:

fp = fopen(...);fread(buffer, 1, 1600*1200*4 + sizeof(header), fp);fclose(fp); 

Will load a 1600*1200 32bit texture to memory in less than a second, depending on your HD speed, transfer mode, etc...
But: It loads the raw texture data, it does not decode, decompress, interprete the data. But it''s always faster to run the decompression or whatever other process you need over a memory buffer, than doing things like:

// Bad and evil example of how to not do it//for( y=0; y<ysize; y++) for( x=0; x<xsize; x++) {  fread(&red, 1, 1, fp);  fread(&green, 1, 1, fp);  fread(&blue, 1, 1, fp);  fread(&alpha, 1, 1, fp);  // process rgba} 

This will be slow as hell.

Jpeg might be an alternative, if your HD speed is slow, and the decompressor outperforms your HD. Depends on your HD and CPU speed, and the quality (performance) of the jpeg decompressor.

- AH

they are 50 MB alltogether

and they need 25 seconds(athlonxp1900+,u-dma 100,7200 rpm, 256 ddr)

and 2 minutes(p3 500, u-dma 66,5400 rpm,64 mb sd ram)

and i load :

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);
AUX_RGBImageRec *LoadBMP(char *Filename)
{
FILE *File=NULL; if (!Filename) {
return NULL; }
File=fopen(Filename,"r");
if (File)
{
fclose(File);
return auxDIBImageLoad(Filename);
}

return NULL;
}
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bool Status=FALSE; // Status Indicator
AUX_RGBImageRec *TextureImage[30]; // Create Storage Space For The Textures
memset(TextureImage,0,sizeof(void *)*30); // Set The Pointer To NULL

if ((TextureImage[ 0]=LoadBMP("Data/mars.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[ 1]=LoadBMP("Data/sonne2.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[ 2]=LoadBMP("Data/merkur.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[ 3]=LoadBMP("Data/venus.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[ 4]=LoadBMP("Data/erde.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[ 5]=LoadBMP("Data/mars.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[ 6]=LoadBMP("Data/jupiter.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[ 7]=LoadBMP("Data/saturn.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[ 8]=LoadBMP("Data/uranus.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[ 9]=LoadBMP("Data/neptun.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[10]=LoadBMP("Data/pluto.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[11]=LoadBMP("Data/saturn_ringe.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[12]=LoadBMP("Data/korona.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[13]=LoadBMP("Data/button.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[14]=LoadBMP("Data/button2.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[15]=LoadBMP("Data/button3.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[16]=LoadBMP("Data/light2.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[17]=LoadBMP("Data/mond.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[18]=LoadBMP("Data/flare.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[19]=LoadBMP("Data/erde2.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[20]=LoadBMP("Data/wolken.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[21]=LoadBMP("Data/white.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[22]=LoadBMP("Data/satring.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[23]=LoadBMP("Data/s1.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[24]=LoadBMP("Data/s2.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[25]=LoadBMP("Data/s3.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[26]=LoadBMP("Data/s4.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[27]=LoadBMP("Data/s5.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[28]=LoadBMP("Data/s6.bmp")) &&
(TextureImage[29]=LoadBMP("Data/satri.bmp")))
{
Status=TRUE; // Set The Status To TRUE
glGenTextures(30, &texture[0]); // Create Five Textures

for (loop=0; loop<30; loop++) // Loop Through All 5 Textures
{

glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[loop]);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST);
gluBuild2DMipmaps(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 3, TextureImage[loop]->sizeX, TextureImage[loop]->sizeY, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, TextureImage[loop]->data);

/* // Create Linear Filtered Texturez
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[1]);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, 3, TextureImage[0]->sizeX, TextureImage[0]->sizeY, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, TextureImage[0]->data);

// Create MipMapped Texture
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[2]);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST);
gluBuild2DMipmaps(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 3, TextureImage[0]->sizeX, TextureImage[0]->sizeY, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, TextureImage[0]->data);

// Create MipMapped Texture
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[loop]);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST);
gluBuild2DMipmaps(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 3, TextureImage[loop]->sizeX, TextureImage[loop]->sizeY, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, TextureImage[loop]->data);
*/ }
}
for (loop=0; loop<30; loop++) // Loop Through All 5 Textures
{
if (TextureImage[loop]) // If Texture Exists
{
if (TextureImage[loop]->data) // If Texture Image Exists
{
free(TextureImage[loop]->data); // Free The Texture Image Memory
}
free(TextureImage[loop]); // Free The Image Structure
}

Well, I just flew over your code, and at a first glance, I can see 3 problems:

1) Remove this *HUGE* if statement ! Replace it with a loop. It won''t affect performance (very much), but this is just horrible

2) auxDIBImageLoad(): never trust Microsoft API calls, if you are interested in speed. Make your own BMP or TGA loader, it''s very easy, and faster.

3) gluBuild2DMipmaps(): This one *kills* performance. Esp. with huge textures. I think, it is the main reason for your slow loading. Professional games do the mipmap level filtering in a precalc step, and store them along with the texture. They are then directly loaded at runtime. Though you will need your own proprietary texture fileformat for that - but it will most definitely speed things up (alot).

- AH

thanks for this tip but i dont know how to make a compatiple bmp loader


and i dont understand tip 3



thanks