Texturing Loaded Models in OpenGL

Hi, guys. I'm new to OpenGL and C++, so try to keep answers simple as possible. I have written some code to upload the stanford bunny or other geometry in OpenGL. I am at a point where I need to texture the any model. I understand how to texture a cube, but that specifies each texture coordinate before each vertex. The question is how can I upload a texture map to my models, since it will be difficult to input texture coordinates before every vertex if I have thousands of vertices? I also can use blender to create UV maps, but I don't understand how to read them in yet. Thanks

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Originally Posted by dreamslayerx

... since it will be difficult to input texture coordinates before every vertex if I have thousands of vertices?

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Sorry, but in OpenGL that's how things work. Not sure I understood your question though.

You don't 'manually' specify the texture coordinates, you have a modeling program do that for you. All your program has to do is to just load in the data, and render it.