Texture mapping help?

[nevans06]

Ok, can anybody please tell me why i cannot texture map anything in my application. I am loading opengl from within a library i have created. then when trying to display any object with texture mapping, i just simply get the shape with the most recent color selected...

What are the obvious reasons for this??

thanks.

[Relic]

Defualt minification filtering is GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR. If you didn't specify a mipmap chain your texture unit stays off. Use glTexParameteri to switch to GL_LINEAR or GL_NEAREST.

[nevans06]

This is the section i think you mean....

//glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTE R,GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST);
//glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTE R,GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR);

glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTE R,GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTE R,GL_LINEAR);


Tried both ways as you can see, any other ideas?

[chowe6685]

Does your texture have power of two dimensions?

Are you trying to load the texture before you have a rendering context?

Are you loading the data from the file correctly?

These are just a few questions that come to mind. We'd need to see your code to give better answers.

[nevans06]

Yes it does seem like i am trying to load the textures prior to setting the rendering context.

What would be the explanation why this didn,t work?

[Lanfear]

I have the same problem when i followed the codes written on a tutorial website.

But i solved it when i added:

gluBuild2DMipmaps(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 3,ImageWidth,ImageHeight, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, ImageBuffer);

after glTexImage2D() command.

DId u omit that sentence?

[nevans06]

Nope, I had that there. Thanks all for your help, its now sorted by making sure i create the textures after setting up the rendering context.

Cheers!

[Relic]

Just for the record,
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTE R,GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR);
is not an option, magnification allows only GL_NEAREST and GL_LINEAR and your code throws a GL error. There is no bigger texture than level of detail 0 to mipmap with.