Preparing for texture mapping

Getting a texture requires:

A file to load from disk or the Web

A TextureLoader to load that file or directly a BufferedImage or a RenderedImage

The TextureLoader utility loads an image from a file or URL, and returns an ImageComponent or Texture

An ImageComponent to hold the loaded image

Which in turn uses a standard BufferedImage

What is really important is to get an ImageComponent

ImageComponent is the base class for two image containers:

• ImageComponent2D holds a 2D image

• ImageComponent3D holds a 3D volume of images

Methods on ImageComponent2D set the image it is holding

Methods

• ImageComponent2D( int format, BufferedImage image )

• void set( BufferedImage image )