Yeah multiple texture units are only needed for multitexturing, of which the most common use is for lightmapping.
On Apr 30, 4:57 pm, Mario Zechner <[email protected]> wrote: > The number of texture units and the maximum texture size are not > really related in any way. The number of texture units tells you how > many textures you can use simultaniously when drawing geometry (how > many textures can be bound at once). You can have more textures in > video ram than there are texture units, however, you can only bind > #texture units textures at any time. A maximum of 2 texture units is > sufficient for most scenarios where you have a diffuse texture and a > lightmap for example. > > The maximum texture size is really just an estimate with most drivers > and depends on things such as internal storage (which might be fixed > by the driver anyways) and so on. > > In any case, both numbers will differ from device to device or rather > chipset to chipset. > > On 30 Apr., 23:19, Jeremiah Sellars <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I'm wondering if this is just an issue with how the emulator is setup, > > but I'm not sure. > > > I'm (natively) calling this: > > > int maxt = 0; > > > glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS, &maxt); > > > __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_VERBOSE, "Native", "Max textures %d", > > maxt); > > > This only outputs 2... could it be possible that I'm going to be > > allowed only 2 textures? That seems impossible... > > > GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE reports 4096 which is more than enough. I suppose > > you could lay everything out on a couple of 4096x 4096 images (seems a > > bit crazy) but anyway... > > > Am I just running into one of things that will be different per phone > > processor? > > > Thanks everyone, > > Jeremiah > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
