Texturing

At its simplest, texturing merely consists of applying a texture in your modeling program. When you export the model, the path to the texture and some options for it like filtering or repeat-method (see next pages) are saved into the egg file. The texture paths can be either relative (as seen from the egg file) or absolute (full path). See Panda Filename Syntax for more info about Panda’s filename syntax. In most cases the relative path makes more sense.

Panda can load JPG, PNG, TIF, and a number of other file formats.

More advanced texturing methods are described in the following sections.

• Simple Texturing
• Choosing a Texture Size
  • Standard Texture Sizes
  • Padded Textures
  • Nonstandard Texture Sizes
• Texture Wrap Modes
  • WM_repeat
  • WM_clamp
  • WM_border_color
  • WM_mirror
  • WM_mirror_once
  • Setting different wrap modes
  • One caution about a common wrap mode error
• Texture Filter Types
  • FT_nearest
  • FT_linear
  • Mipmaps
  • Anisotropic Filtering
• Simple Texture Replacement
• Multitexture Introduction
• Texture Modes
  • The Basics
  • Modulate mode
  • Add mode
  • Replace mode
  • Decal mode
  • Blend mode
  • Normal Map Mode
  • Height / Parallax Map Mode
  • Gloss Map Mode
  • Glow Map Mode
• Texture Order
• Texture Combine Modes
  • RGB modes
  • Alpha modes
  • Source values
  • Operands
• Texture Transforms
• Multiple Texture Coordinate Sets
• Automatic Texture Coordinates
• Projected Textures
  • Interval-animated texture transforms
  • Projected Textures
• Simple Environment Mapping
• 3-D Textures
  • Applications for 3-D textures
• Cube Maps
• Environment Mapping with Cube Maps
• Automatic Texture Animation
• Playing MPG and AVI files
  • Usage
  • For powers-of-two limited graphics hardware
  • Issues
• Multiview Textures
• Transparency and Blending
• Texture Management
  • Automatically reducing textures
  • Enabling texture compression
  • Limiting graphics memory usage overall
  • Monitoring memory usage
• Texture Compression
  • Runtime texture compression
  • TXO file format
  • DDS file format
  • Texture cache
• Creating New Textures from Scratch
  • The PNMImage Class
  • Storing a Texture into an Image
  • Loading a PNMImage into a Texture