Textures

Textures are a powerful tool in creating realism in computer-generated 3-D images. Microsoft?Direct3D?supports an extensive texturing feature set, providing developers with easy access to advanced texturing techniques.

This section will get you started using textures.

• Basic Texturing Concepts
• Texture Coordinates
• Texture Filtering
• Texture Resources
• Texture Wrapping
• Texture Blending
• Surfaces

These topics will go into more detail about additional texturing functionality.

• Automatic Generation of Mipmaps
• Automatic Texture Management
• Compressed Texture Resources
• Hardware Considerations for Texturing
• Volume Texture Resources

For improved performance, consider using dynamic textures. A dynamic texture can be locked, written to, and unlocked each frame. See Using Dynamic Textures.