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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
You need to supply the full path? I'll try it.:pQuote:
Originally posted by novacain
1. Look at the path you supply to load the bmp. Is it the full path?
2. For DWORD alignment
(Teehee!:D 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 "/"
:p
they dont, they have to be powers of 2Quote:
Originally posted by Krak
2.)Why do bitmap texture file sizes hafta be multliples of 64?
such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, etc.? Okay...but why?Quote:
Originally posted by Perspective
they dont, they have to be powers of 2
Another question:
Why do they hafta be bitmap files?
as novacain pointed out above, for alignment. you can get around this by using mipmaps (i think, never actually tried)Quote:
Originally posted by Krak
such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, etc.? Okay...but why?
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)Quote:
Originally posted by Krak
Another question:
Why do they hafta be bitmap files?