Texture loading for opengl

[etcinit]

Before we can start applying textures to primitives we need to load them into the application. This should be part of the resource manager eventually, but for now all we need is a simple class with methods for loading textures into opengl.

[etcinit]

I'm making some changes to the render classes so that they load textures directly from bitmaps. Technically, we would then need a "bitmap manager" in the resource manager class instead of having the resource manager handling texture loading.

[5outh]

We still will probably need a texture manager, no?

Just because we're loading textures from bitmaps doesn't mean we need to directly manage those bitmaps (since that's just a file type). We still need to load / unload textures, but loading textures looks like it's just going to be done from bmp files.

Or, am I reading this wrong?

[etcinit]

Android has a bitmap class. Images files need to be loaded into instances of that class. The bitmap manager should take care of loading these and keep some of them cached in memory.

Yes, I'm building a texture manager, but it will be part of the render engine, and it will take Bitmap instances when loading a texture into opengl

[5outh]

Ah, I see! Ok, cool. Sounds good :P