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

[Jan E. <ch...@in...>]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Richard Jones wrote:

>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.

Apparently my code runs ~40fps on a p300 with a vodoo3. Which is basically
good news.

>> 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 :)

Hmm, it doesn't look ok either. I get either a white rectangle and
something yellowish with the "flare" in the middle.

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