Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Pygame surfaces as PyOpenGL textures?

[Richard J. <ric...@op...>]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 23:26, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Richard Jones wrote:
> >There was a really useful article either on gamasutra or gamedev regarding
> >texturing of landscapes. Number one tip is to blend - use a large texture
> >that gives a change over a large area and then the smaller texture like
> > the one you're currently using to give some finer detail. Makes the
> > repetition of the finer detail texture much less apparent.
>
> Hmm, this sounds like a good idea. I'm a total newbie when it comes to
> issues like this. Unfortunately I think that performance would suffer a
> great deal from additional blending?

Most 3d cards will do multitexturing with almost no performance hit.


> Richard, I'll try your code tomorrow when I get back to the machine where
> I installed pyopengl. Do you happen to have access to a png where the
> alpha channel definitely works with your code? Could make it easier to
> debug if I know the file is absolutely ok.

Attached. It's not very good (should be white), but it does have the 
transparency :)


    Richard