All I would like to do is to take a bmp from my picture collection and display that with open Gl using C++ I just havnt seemed to find the code that will do that also if anybody has a 3D house that they have made that would be a nice addition thank you

One of the NeHe tuts has texture mapping using bmp files. If all you''re after is putting BMPs on the screen try the GDI its easier.

Of course I would suggest just using OpenIL, as it reads .bmp files like there''s no tomorrow. ;-) If you want to do it yourself, www.wotsit.org has several great documents on the .bmp format.