On 11/14/06, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2006, at 23:40 , Mikael Kindborg wrote:
>
> >> > Are textures faster?
> >> > Will have to learn more about this.
> >>
> >> Texture-mapped quads are the way to go.
> >>
> >
> > Looked at glTexImage2D and the documentation says that width and
> > height must be powers of two, which is not very nice for sprites.
>
> Well, it's what the hardware supports efficiently - OpenGL is a very
> low-level API. You will have to manage this yourself. Like, write a
> sprite manager that packs many sprites into one large texture.
>
> > However, I saw that in OpenGL 2.1 "Non-Power-Of-Two Textures" are
> > introduced as a standard:
> > http://www.opengl.org/documentation/current_version/
>
> ... which will take years until it is generally supported. And it
> won't work on older boards at all.
>
> All in all I'd prefer SDL for 2D games.
>
> - Bert -
>

Oh, that's bad news, I just got enthusiastic about OpenGL... Then
again, using SDL does not rule out OpenGL.

Best regards, Micke