Re: How to Grayscale Texture

"ancientcc" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.sdl
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I give an example of use: 1)Generate tow texture from tow *.png file, 2)Use
SDL_RenderCopy, generate new texture base on these tow texture. 3)Need
grayscale the new texture.

 I have a question, to above case, even use SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_STREAMING, it
require move pixels data from VRAM to system memory. In order to move, is
there method except SDL_RenderReadPixels?

-----Original Message-----
Is this something that needs to be done in real time, or can you preprocess
the graphics at load time?

If it needs to be real time, you should use procedural textures, using an
SDL_Surface or a raw buffer as source data. (See
SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_STREAMING.)

You should absolutely not use SDL_RenderReadPixels(), ever, for anything
other than screenshots and the like. It's typically faster to do all
rendering in software, just to avoid ever moving data from VRAM to system
memory. :-)

If you want it all really fast and accelerated, you probably need to use
custom shaders, but AFAIK, that's not directly supported by the SDL 2D API,
so you'd have to move to OpenGL or Direct3D.


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