Hello ! As everybody told me that drawPixels is slow in most cases and I want some 2D animation in my application, I would like to know more about using a texture. The texture size must be a power 2, but most images that I want to draw aren''t sized like this. Would it be better dividing the image in multiple textures or stretching it to fit and resize it after ? Thanks for helping me. C4ctusAl What about some trouble ?

Depends what you want to use it for, if you want pixel-accurate representation of your images then of course split it across textures, if you don''t particularly care if it is a bit fuzzy (say it''s a background to a parallax scroller), scale it.

If you don''t have memory problems, and if you don''t need to repeat the textures, then allocate a bigger texture.
For instance, if your sprite is 10x10, you can allocate a 16x16 texture and then copy into a 10x10 square with glTexSubImage2D (available since OpenGL1.1).

or you can copy a bunch of these sprites into one big (512x512) texture with glTexSubImage2D like vincoof said. With this you minimize both : wasted space and texture bind calls.

You should never let your fears become the boundaries of your dreams.

DarkWing: you''re right except for the case of mipmapping. Though, mipmapping may not happend in a 2D engine, and that would not be a problem then.

I have read all your posts and they all make sense and I will make a mix of all of these for my functions.


C4ctusAl

What about some trouble ?