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Texture Mapping

Started by thedoofus May 22, 2006 at 7:51 AM 1 replies 450+ views

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May 22, 2006 at 7:51 AM

Hey - I'm hoping this is a really basic question - but I'm trying to implement texture mapping into my ray tracer. I know how to get my UV co-ords and all that jazz, but I haven't a clue how to read the rgb values into my program. It really is that basic. I'm hoping theres a simple fscanf kind of function around but can anyone give me any answers or directions into where to look? I'm using C programming. Cheers, HH

Nairb

May 22, 2006 at 3:19 PM

If I understand your question right, it depends on the format the texture is in.
I believe there's a document on loading BMP files somewhere on this site that can help. Another altnerative is to use some library like FreeImage, which will do the image loading for you and provide you with a memory buffer containing the pixel data.

Edit: Though I'm not sure if FreeImage is C or C++. Haven't really used it.

Cheers,
--Brian

griffin2000

May 22, 2006 at 3:26 PM

There are alot of different libaries or example code for specific image formats:

PNG - http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
TIFF - http://www.libtiff.org/
BMP - http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/bmp/

ImageMagick supports several formats:
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

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