Binding textures

If you want multiple textures, you simply don''t render it as one big mesh. You render each area that requires a different texture seperately. Alternatively, you can pack the entire terrain texture into a larger one and rely on texture coordinates.

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Thanks Null and Void!
That question was so stupid of me. I realized what I needed to do right after your
response. I had to do some re-writing; added vector, triangle, vertex and face classes. Can you
believe it: I didn''t have any of those before! What the hell was I thinking... I wasn''t
thinking I guess. Well, now things work almost the way I wanted: there''s snow on the
mountain peaks. But what I need to do next is to blend the textures together somehow..
umm..blur the edges or something. The edges of the textures look very icky. Plus the
framerate dropped dramatically! Previously it was about 130-160 and now it''s 40-60, and
I''m even using display lists! Ackh! I see I still have tons to learn about these
basics.

Could someone point me to some good tutorials on OpenGL texturing? Octree/quadtree/what
ever tree things would also be nice, so that I could limit the amount of faces to render
to what one can actually see on the screen. Right now I''m just rendering the whole damn
terrain every frame. What a waste of speed.. tee hee. And what are these vertexarrays
I have heard about? Damn, information overload. My head explodes!

saeZ

One technique for blending all the textures together is to make one big texture out of the small ones. Your terainmust be heightmap bassed though... You define a scale 0-256 assuming your heightmap is indexed color. 0 being darkest 256 being lghtest.

So lets say you define your scale that all pixel on the heightmap between 0 (black) to 10 (drak gray) use the dirt texture for 11 to 20 use grass texture.

You go pixel by pixel on the hight map you get it''s color value so if pixel 0,0 is black you take the dirt texture, then you test the surounding pixels. The surounding pixels are 15 so you would blend a bit of the gras texure onto your dirt texture and keep going.... Of course you dont directly modify the dirt, grass, snow etc.. texture directly you blend them in memmory somehow using an algorithim them you save the processed block. Once you have the whole height map done you store the data to file and you have the new texture. The good thign aboutthis is that the texture will match perfectly the terrain because you generated from the height map...

I personally have never done this before, but what I have blurted out sounds about right....