I haven’t test the following but i will decompose the conversion in 3 steps:
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Extract info for your image:
UIImage* image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"imageToApplyAsATexture.png"]; CGImageRef imageRef = [image CGImage]; int width = CGImageGetWidth(imageRef); int height = CGImageGetHeight(imageRef);
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Allocate a
textureData
with the above properties:GLubyte* textureData = (GLubyte *)malloc(width * height * 4); // if 4 components per pixel (RGBA) CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(); NSUInteger bytesPerPixel = 4; NSUInteger bytesPerRow = bytesPerPixel * width; NSUInteger bitsPerComponent = 8; CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(textureData, width, height, bitsPerComponent, bytesPerRow, colorSpace, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast | kCGBitmapByteOrder32Big); CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace); CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height), imageRef); CGContextRelease(context);
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Set-up your texture:
GLuint textureID; glPixelStorei(GL_UNPACK_ALIGNMENT, 1); glGenTextures(1, &textureID); glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureID); glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, width, height, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, textureData);
EDIT:
Read this tut; everything is explained from the conversion of one image to a texture and applying a texture in an iOS environment.