D3DXCreateTextureFromFile

I''ve tested the function with Bitmaps, TGA and PNG files. It probably supports more formats give it a shot and find out.

JPEGs too.

It supports BMP, JPEG, TGA, PNG , GIF and DDS file formats.

It may support more but these are the ones I know of

HTH

Awesome, thanks for the info =)
~S''Greth

Here is a question for you experts: would jpeg''s take up the same amount of vid memory as, say, a bmp or less? Does jpeg work on some type of compression or something like a lower color depth?

Well the jpeg format is based on a very lossy form of compression. Personaly I wouldn''t use them in a 3d game of any sort due to how lossy the compression actualy is. In 3d you end up doing alot of things like mipmapping and other texture techniques that work quite well with normal images like bmp, tga, or png but don''t look very good with jpegs. Obviously because the image is compressed they should take up less memory than a bitmap but in this case your trading memory for quality.

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Original post by Moe

Here is a question for you experts: would jpeg''s take up the same amount of vid memory as, say, a bmp or less? Does jpeg work on some type of compression or something like a lower color depth?

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I''m pretty sure that jpeg''s will take up the same amount of vid memory as a bmp file of the same image. File formats can hold the pixel data in a form of compression, when this data is put in video memory it cannot be compressed (it has to just have the data for the pixels) or the gfx card won''t read the data properly and show something corrupt on the screen (if it dosen''t crash). It might be possible to store the data compressed within system memory and uncompress it when its time to put it in vid memory, but I think you''ll get a large performance decrease and run into a ton of problems with management.

BTW, I agree with evaclear that the jpeg format is not good for games.

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