Re: [Plib-users] ssgMakeMipMaps

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Wolfram Kuss wrote:
>>i would like to avoid having to resize my image to something like 256X256.
> 
> 
> You should DEFINITELY resize it. Computer graphics hardware needs
> power of two. The only ways for a program to allow non-.power-of-two
> are
> a) don't use hardware accelaration

Well, even without hardware accelleration, you still need a power-of-two
map if you are using software-only OpenGL.   The only way out would be
not to use OpenGL and rasterize the image yourself - but that's a ridiculous choice.

> b) resize it yourself, during each session
> Both obviously bad.

Well, (b) may be less than optimal - but it's not *that* bad.

Actually, there is an OpenGL extension that allows you to use non-power-of-two
textures on nVidia hardware - but there are a lot of really weird restrictions.

Trust me - you NEED powers of two map dimensions.

> Resizing it once "offline" with a good program, that can use a good
> algorithm since it can take a second, is a much better idea. 

Yep.

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