BufferedImage to Texture

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Ok… I’m going through the painful process of moving a game that is well under development from Java2D into LWJGL

I’ve already made a system that dynamically makes a huge sprite sheet and remembers where all the sprites are, so the whole binding Texture should be ready to go.

Now here’s the one method I need to implement before I can proceed (and it’ll only be called once or maybe a few times per game)

I need to make a BufferedImage into a Texture object

I don’t care if it’s really ugly or really “slow”, because it’s a very rare method

I’m having a hard time figuring out how to accomplish this. Does anyone know?

Thanks

#2

Which part do you want the help with? Loading the texture, or converting buffered image into byte buffer?

#3

Check out SHC’s tutorial: http://goharsha.com/lwjgl-tutorial-series/textures/
In the “Loading Textures” section

#4

Ah, that’s the code I was wondering about, changing a buffer into a texture.

Thank you!

#5

Or to get away from all the bit-swizzling in Java, you could try this -

#6

When the guy says,

[quote]My textures are already allocated (as RGBA8) by this point.
[/quote]
How does one go about actually doing that?

Texture texture = ???

Thanks

#7

I would say to read that tutorial and get an understanding on how OpenGL works. It seems you’re a bit new :). OpenGL does not have a default texture class, but it does have ways of binding texture buffers onto your graphics card. I would not recommend using random classes without knowing what your doing, but here’s a very basic one I use: http://pastebin.com/3ajgWhDF Like I said, you’d get allot more out of it, re-reading this class and that tutorial a shit-tonne of times.

Make sure to use texture coordinates when initializing the object you’re going to draw. Heres how to use it,

Texture texture;

public void initialize(){
    //Setup display before initializing texture, to create an OpenGL context to use.
    ...
    texture = Texture.loadTexture("./assets/img.png"); //Get a texture from classpath
}

public void render(){
    texture.bind();
     ...Render (with texture coordinates!!)
    texture.unbind();
}
#8

Thanks

I’ve actually read a lot of tutorials
I would load in Textures straight from files, like you have, but I already have so much code behind my dynamically created Sprite Batches (made as a giant BufferedImage) that I would much rather just convert that into a Texture. It also makes my life easier because I don’t have to code in anywhere where each sprite is located on the batch