Just want to clear up a texture question

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Using LWJGL and NeHe quad(cube) tutorial. One big rotating cube with all 6 sides the same png. I have made a second png to use on the top face. (heading towards an overhead view above 3d landscape/spacescape.
In the tutorial, you bind the texture then begin the quads, draw six of them then end quads. I have pulled the top face out and put it in its own begin-end preceded by a new bind texture call. It works and I get a cube with the top face using my new graphic. Performance appears to be the same as before.

Questio is: Is this best practice? Is there a smarter way?

#2

If you were using “subtextures” inside a bigger texture you wouldn’t need to rebind. Probably won’t make a great deal of difference.

Cas :slight_smile:

#3

great…seems to work well enough. On this dinosaur machine, it runs pretty well.