Re: [Plib-devel] texture support for ssgLoadOBJ

[Wolfram K. <w_...@rz...>]

Dave wrote:

>
>> - I had a texture with a size that is not a power of two.
>> plib complained (map is not a power-of-two in size)
>> and exits the program!
>i'll track that down if you want to send me the texture

Lets first decide what we want :-).
I think most or all graphics cards want to have texture-sizes
that are a power of two. So, internally, we should only have such
textures.
I see two ways to deal with this:
- Dont load wrong textures, give an error-message, go on loading
everything else.
- Resample the texture when loading. This, of course, slows loading
the texture. Therefore, authors (of games or whatever) should resample
their textures once in a paint-program anyway. If we go this way,
I want a dialog saying "this is not a nice texture, if you want to go
on using it or even distribute it, resample it".
It is surprising how uniformed people can be, even if they create
textures professionally. For a long time, we had monochrome textures
with a size of, for example 118x112 pixels :-(.
So, our program was used with the hand brake on :-(. (German idiom,
translated into English. I dont know whether there is an English one).

Bye bye,
Wolfram Kuss.