texture memery and define texture

[hwj_just]

hello i want to know whethe when we define a 3d texture llike glTexImage3D(GLenum target,Glint level, Glint internalFormat, GLsizei width,GLsizei height, GLsizei depth, Glint border,GLenum format ,GLenum type, const GLvoid *texels); then the *texels will be put into the texture memery?

[Bob]

The image will be put wherever the driver thinks is best. Video memory? Probably. Somewhere else? Maybe. It depends. But likely, it will end up in video memory.