Free download of texture mapping chapter from The OpenGL Programming Guide 4th Edition

Category: Developers •

Jul 07, 2004

Addison-Wesley has provided OpenGL.org with a sample chapter from The OpenGL Programming Guide 4th Edition (Redbook) for download (1.2MB PDF). This is the must-have book for every OpenGL programmer. The sample Chapter 9 covers texturing mapping. After reading this chapter you should be able to:

 
• Specify texture images in compressed and uncompressed formats
 
• Control how a texture image is filtered as it’s applied to a fragment
 
• Create and manage texture images in texture objects and, if available,   control a high-performance working set of those texture objects
 
• Specify how the color values in the image combine with those of the fragment   to which it’s being applied
 
• Supply texture coordinates to indicate how the texture image should be   aligned with the objects in your scene
 
• Generate texture coordinates automatically to produce effects such as contour   maps and environment maps
 
• Perform complex texture operations in a single pass with multitexturing   (sequential texture units)
 
• Use texture combiner functions to mathematically operate on texture, fragment,   and constant color values
 
• After texturing, process fragments with secondary colors
 
• Perform transformations on texture coordinates using the texture matrix
 
• Render shadowed objects, using depth textures