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[vash999]

Hello i am new to the forums, i have been following the nehe tutorials, and other tutorials; i have a problem, what i want to do is have many tga files in one single file and then read that file and load the textures and displaying in the game.

i follow this tutorial
http://gpwiki.org/in..._Resource_Files
and get the char* buffer, but i dont know how to load that buffer into a texture.

sorry for my english i speak spanish.
i´m using c++ with visual studio .net, glut.

[Reedbeta]

Please note, this question would have been more appropriately asked in the GPWiki forums, since it concerns a specific GPWiki tutorial.

However, the general answer is that the buffer will contain the binary data of a file, in your case a TGA file. You need to write a loader, just like loading a TGA file from disk, but reading the bytes from the memory buffer instead.

Also, some graphics libaries like SDL allow you to load an image file from a memory buffer as well.

[vash999]

ok i will try that, i dosnt know that gpwiki have a forum, next time i will check up better.

thanks.