Understanding OpenGL 3 textures

OpenGL OpenGL: Basic Coding
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I recently began adventuring into the world of OpenGL 3.3 coming from a background of limited knowledge of OpenGL 1.1. I understand basic texture loading and usage, however, I can’t seem to figure out how to use the texture in my shader. I know it may sound like a stupid question, but I can’t find any resources on how to actually use them. Can somebody give me or link me to an example usage of a GL_TEXTURE_2D texture in a GLSL 3.3 shader?

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hi,

the basics are still the same …

  • you create a texture
  • you fill it with your texture data
  • you bind it …
    now 2 new thinks come along:
  • you create a “sampler2d” variable in your shader
  • you populate the value of it

somthing like:

   
glActiveTexture( GL_TEXTURE0 );
glBindTexture ( GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureId );
glUniform1i ( samplerLoc, 0 );

in the shader its like

     
uniform sampler2D mytexture;

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