Hey guys. Quick q. Is there any way I can take a greyscale image and instead of storing it as an RGB texture, can I store the values from 0 to 1 as alpha levels instead? How do I go about this? Thanks, all the best, Dan

You use GL_ALPHA instead of GL_RGB when generating the texture.

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as python_regious suggested, u use GL_ALPHA. however on ur issue of storing values from 0 to 1... may be complicated. to my understanding, each channel for an inmage is generally stored as an 8-bit integral. which means ur values range from 0 to 255.

so, yes a grayscale image can be handled thru GL_ALPHA. but if u wanna manipulate the data yourself, remember to do fractional conversion on ur own. adios.

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however on ur issue of storing values from 0 to 1... may be complicated. to my understanding, each channel for an inmage is generally stored as an 8-bit integral. which means ur values range from 0 to 255.

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that doesn''t make any difference, as texture data is treated as if it were in the range 0 to 1. Although internally it''s still 0 to 255, so, for example, modulate blending of 128 and, say, 32 equals 16, not 4096.

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