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 -