Bitmap Textures

Some Questions:

1.) When I use a bitmap file as a texture, it only works when I build and run the program within the compiler, but when I execute the program outside of the compiler, the program fails to load the .bmp file. Why is this so?

2.)Why do bitmap texture file sizes hafta be multliples of 64?

1. Look at the path you supply to load the bmp. Is it the full path?

2. For DWORD alignment

Originally posted by novacain
1. Look at the path you supply to load the bmp. Is it the full path?

2. For DWORD alignment

You need to supply the full path? I'll try it.

(Teehee! Incredibly stupid mistake)

put the .bmp in the same folder as the executable as well as in the main folder which is where you have it right now.

Thanks, novacain. I got it working. The path is

C:\Documents and Settings\Dean\My Documents\Graphics\thing.bmp

But I had to change all the "\" characters to "/"

Originally posted by Krak
2.)Why do bitmap texture file sizes hafta be multliples of 64?

they dont, they have to be powers of 2

Originally posted by Perspective
they dont, they have to be powers of 2

such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, etc.? Okay...but why?

Another question:

Why do they hafta be bitmap files?

Originally posted by Krak
such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, etc.? Okay...but why?

as novacain pointed out above, for alignment. you can get around this by using mipmaps (i think, never actually tried)

Originally posted by Krak

Another question:

Why do they hafta be bitmap files?

they dont. you can use many different image types for textures as long as you are familiar with their format and can write a proper loader (or find a good tutorial)