March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
984 pages
26h 18m
English
book
OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.3, Eighth Edition
by Dave Shreiner, Graham Sellers, John M. Kessenich, Bill M. Licea-Kane
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Complex Texture Types
Textures are often considered only as one- or two-dimensional images that may be read from. However, there are several types of textures, including 3D textures, texture arrays, and cube maps, shadows, depth-stencil, and buffer textures. This section describes the types of texture and outlines their potential use cases.