Texture coordinates do not depend on resolution but can be any floating point value, thus OpenGL has to figure out which texture pixel (also known as a texel ) to map the texture coordinate to. GlTexParameterfv(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_BORDER_COLOR, borderColor) This is done using the fv equivalent of the glTexParameter function with GL_TEXTURE_BORDER_COLOR as its option where we pass in a float array of the border's color value:ДЇloat borderColor = If we choose the GL_CLAMP_TO_BORDER option we should also specify a border color. The last argument requires us to pass in the texture wrapping mode we'd like and in this case OpenGL will set its texture wrapping option on the currently active texture with GL_MIRRORED_REPEAT.

The second argument requires us to tell what option we want to set and for which texture axis we want to configure it for both the S and T axis. The first argument specifies the texture target we're working with 2D textures so the texture target is GL_TEXTURE_2D. GlTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_MIRRORED_REPEAT)

GlTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_MIRRORED_REPEAT) Let's see what these look like on a sample texture image (original image by HГіlger Rezende):Д®ach of the aforementioned options can be set per coordinate axis ( s, t (and r if you're using 3D textures) equivalent to x, y, z) with the glTexParameter* function: GL_CLAMP_TO_BORDER: Coordinates outside the range are now given a user-specified border color.Д®ach of the options have a different visual output when using texture coordinates outside the default range.The result is that higher coordinates become clamped to the edge, resulting in a stretched edge pattern. GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE: Clamps the coordinates between 0 and 1.GL_MIRRORED_REPEAT: Same as GL_REPEAT but mirrors the image with each repeat.GL_REPEAT: The default behavior for textures.Texture coordinates usually range from (0,0) to (1,1) but what happens if we specify coordinates outside this range? The default behavior of OpenGL is to repeat the texture images (we basically ignore the integer part of the floating point texture coordinate), but there are more options OpenGL offers: It is thus our job to tell OpenGL how it should sample its textures. Texture sampling has a loose interpretation and can be done in many different ways. The resulting texture coordinates would then look like this:

We only have to pass 3 texture coordinates to the vertex shader, which then passes those to the fragment shader that neatly interpolates all the texture coordinates for each fragment. The top of the triangle should correspond with the top-center of the texture image so we take (0.5,1.0) as its texture coordinate. The same applies to the bottom-right side with a (1,0) texture coordinate. We want the bottom-left side of the triangle to correspond with the bottom-left side of the texture so we use the (0,0) texture coordinate for the triangle's bottom-left vertex. We specify 3 texture coordinate points for the triangle. The following image shows how we map texture coordinates to the triangle: Texture coordinates start at (0,0) for the lower left corner of a texture image to (1,1) for the upper right corner of a texture image. Retrieving the texture color using texture coordinates is called sampling. Texture coordinates range from 0 to 1 in the x and y axis (remember that we use 2D texture images). Fragment interpolation then does the rest for the other fragments. Each vertex should thus have a texture coordinate associated with them that specifies what part of the texture image to sample from. In order to map a texture to the triangle we need to tell each vertex of the triangle which part of the texture it corresponds to. Next to images, textures can also be used to store a large collection of arbitrary data to send to the shaders, but we'll leave that for a different topic.Д«elow you'll see a texture image of a brick wall mapped to the triangle from the previous chapter. Because we can insert a lot of detail in a single image, we can give the illusion the object is extremely detailed without having to specify extra vertices. A texture is a 2D image (even 1D and 3D textures exist) used to add detail to an object think of a texture as a piece of paper with a nice brick image (for example) on it neatly folded over your 3D house so it looks like your house has a stone exterior. What artists and programmers generally prefer is to use a texture. This takes up a considerable amount of extra overhead, since each model needs a lot more vertices and for each vertex a color attribute as well.

However, to get a fair bit of realism we'd have to have many vertices so we could specify a lot of colors. We learned that to add more detail to our objects we can use colors for each vertex to create some interesting images.

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