Hello!
Short: I’m trying to “blit” a 2D image to the screen by uploading it as textures and drawing quads. For instance, I blit a 320x200 image partitioned into (whole or partial) 128x128 textures.
Since the original image is stored “straight off” in memory (320 colums x 200 lines, no interleaving etc), I want to use the OpenGL PixelStore parameters GL_UNPACK_ROW_LENGTH, GL_UNPACK_SKIP_ROWS and GL_UNPACK_SKIP_PIXELS to “cut out” a desired part of the image to upload as a texture (e.g. I set GL_UNPACK_ROW_LENGTH to 320, but the texture width is 128, which hopefully results in GL skipping 320-128=192 pixels after each line when uploading the texture image).
This works fine on my GeForce Ti4200 (I get >100 Mpixels/s effective transfer rate, by the way), but with the Microsoft software GL implementation I get memory access errors (=crash), and on a Linux machine with Intel i810 I get “shuffling errors” (pixels are not sent to the right place on the screen).
Now, my question is: Is it possible that these UNPACK parameters can give problems on some drivers/cards? Are they commonly used (the mentioned UNPACK parameters)? (I suspect not)
I have pinpointed the problem to using these parameters, but it could of course be another bug in my code which is only visible when I use the UNPACK parameters. Anyway, I wanted to check if someone else has had similar problems.