[PD] Loading a big image

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

On 23/12/14 17:18, xä wrote:
> hi list,
>
> I have to load a huge image of about 23000 pixels x 700 pixels in order to
> be as a landscape image scrolling in slow motion with a certain time
> sequencer.

That's too big for most graphics cards.  Not sure if there is a way in 
Gem to query the maximum texture dimensions, but in C you'd use proxy 
targets for glTexImage2D.  Typically textures go up to 8192 or another 
nearby power of two in each dimension.

> I m testing with pix_image and pix_multiimage but seems to load only a
> fragment of the image about 1000pixels (horizontal) cropping and not
> rendering the rest.

Split it into vertical slices and display them on a lot of quads.  You 
might have to be tricky with pixel positioning to avoid seams. I did 
this once in gridflow, don't know where the patch is though (6 years ago 
at least) - so maybe you could try the gridflow/Gem bridge if it hasn't 
bitrotted too hard.

> (the size of the image is about 1.2M in jpg)

That's irrelevant, it's decompressed before you put it in video memory.


Claude

>
> Any suggestion?
> thanx
> Xavi M.dAAX
>
>
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