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 discusses the purposes and uses of textures in Direct3D. The information is presented in the following topics.

• Basic Texturing Concepts
• Texture Coordinates
• Texture Resources
• Texture Filtering
• Texture Wrapping
• Compressed Texture Resources
• Volume Texture Resources
• Automatic Texture Management
• Hardware Considerations for Texturing
• Texture Blending
• Surfaces
• Using Dynamic Textures