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Hello,

In a game I am writing, I need to be able to map a texture onto an object but I am having difficulty. The image loader implementation I am using seems to only work with .rgb images. I obtained one and the texture loader now works perfectly with that file. The only problem is that I need to create my own texture and I don't seem to be able to create one in a format understood by the loader.

Does anyone know of anything that can create these .rgb image files?

Thanks,
Jeff.

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GraphicConverter will work.Save the image as an .sgi,this is the correct format,then rename it by hand .rgb.I happen to be working on the same problem myself.It's a little tricky,I had some weird problems with the images not showing up on the desktop(where I was saving them to),so I had to save them to the destination folder.Remember that both the x an y dimensions have to be powers of 2,for example the texture map I have used is 256*256 pixels.There is a way around this requirement,but I don't know how to pull it off.Anybody else?

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Thank you VERY much!

I thought that rgb and sgi were the same thing. I used AppleWorks to save the jpg I found as sgi and then tried to rename it by hand but had problems. I thought that it was because of some small difference between rgb and sgi formats. I had completely forgotten about that powers of 2 issue.

Thanks for reminding me,
Jeff.

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Problems persist. It appears as though the image I was using was already 64 pixels by 64 pixels. I tried to re-save it with GraphicConverter and then even tried it at 256 by 256 but I keep getting the same problem.

I can't understand why I am having problems. Are there any special options when saving with graphics converter? I can't get it to work.

Any other assistance would be greatly appreciated,
Jeff.

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Ah, I got it. I just had to set Verbatim instead of RLE in the save options (luckily I have no idea what either of those are).

Thanks for your help,
Jeff.

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Verbatim means uncompressed.RLE stands for Run Length Encoding,which is a type of compression.Suppose you had a graphics file that was in an interlaced format,where all the R values are stored,then all the G values,then all the B values.Now suppose you ran into a section in the R values that ran 55,55,55,55,55,55,43,57,87.RLE will convert this to (6)55,43,57,87,which means 55 six times,followed by 43,then 57,then 87.This is not a literal description of the encoding scheme,just a basic sketch of how it works.Non-interlaced graphics formats have the values stored RGB for each pixel,i.e. rgb,rgb,rgb,etc.

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