2D & 3D Texture Coordinate System

Hello,

I use 2D and 3D(ATI RADEON 9200) textures, and I noticed a difference between the 2D & 3D coordinate system of the arrays and the textures ?

For 2D: Tab[line][row] from top left gives a Tex[t][s] from bottom left.

For 3D: Tab[Depth][line][row] gives an identical texture coordinate system Tex[t][s][r].

Is it correct ? Did I something wrong which gave me this result ? Does it depends of the used graphical card and particular extension ?

Thanks in advance for your help and your time.

This is only partly correct if I understand your notation.

It seems you are using multi-dimensional array notation to indicate which axes of data is major vs minor.

Therefore a 2D and 3D image would be correctly declared as:

pixel_type image_array_2D[t_height][s_width]

pixel_type image_array_3D[r_depth][t_height][s_width]

This means that a 3D image is depth major and therefore is comprised of a series of 2D images stored contiguously and sequentially in memory.

When specifying texture coordinates you will specify s,t,r in that order, where when clamped the coordinate 0,0,0, will produce the color of the first pixel in the 3D array.

Thanks a lot, I had not seen the problem as a memory management problem. It is clear.

:cool:

Sincerely