GL_CLAMP_TO_BORDER and GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE ?

Hello,

I am trying to make sense of the following documentation:

OpenGL 2.1 Reference documentation:

http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/

"
glTexParameter - set texture parameters
"

"
GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S

Sets the wrap parameter for texture coordinate s to either GL_CLAMP,
GL_CLAMP_TO_BORDER, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE, GL_MIRRORED_REPEAT, or GL_REPEAT.
GL_CLAMP causes s coordinates to be clamped to the range [0,1] and is useful
for preventing wrapping artifacts when mapping a single image onto an
object. GL_CLAMP_TO_BORDER causes the s coordinate to be clamped to the
range -12N1+12N, where N is the size of the texture in the direction of
clamping.GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE causes s coordinates to be clamped to the range
12N1-12N, where N is the size of the texture in the direction of clamping.
GL_REPEAT causes the integer part of the s coordinate to be ignored; the GL
uses only the fractional part, thereby creating a repeating pattern.
GL_MIRRORED_REPEAT causes the s coordinate to be set to the fractional part
of the texture coordinate if the integer part of s is even; if the integer
part of s is odd, then the s texture coordinate is set to 1-frac?s, where
frac?s represents the fractional part of s. Border texture elements are
accessed only if wrapping is set to GL_CLAMP or GL_CLAMP_TO_BORDER.
Initially, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S is set to GL_REPEAT.
"

I am especially confused about the following lines:

"
GL_CLAMP_TO_BORDER causes the s coordinate to be clamped to the
range -12N1+12N, where N is the size of the texture in the direction of
clamping.GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE causes s coordinates to be clamped to the range
12N1-12N, where N is the size of the texture in the direction of clamping.
"

The only difference I can see is "coordinate" and "coordinates".

I am confused about this option... and especially the range description:
"-12N1+12N"

What the hell does that mean ?

I am also a little bit confused about GL_CLAMP but I think I understand
that.

Suppose my texture coordinates have range 0 to 1000... then GL_CLAMP would
always "clamp" this to 0..1.

So that would be bad because I would like to keep range 0 to 1000... so I
would need to use another option...

So that's why I am interested in the border or edge option... I just wanna
make sure I understand it correctly...

So some questions:

1. Are these two options the same thing ? (yes/no will do for now see
question 4 )

Suppose my texture coordinates are 800 x 600

2. Will border option clamp to 800x600 ?

3. Will edge option clamp to 800x600 ?

4. Is there a conceptual difference between these two options: border and
egdge ?
If so... then what's the difference, what's the concept for both ?

Bye,
Skybuck.

Also I noticed another difference between these two options...

One is - +

The other is + -

Time for me to read up on the concept of texture borders:

Maybe this doc will help :

http://www.opengl.org/resources/code...es/node64.html

Bye,
Skybuck.

"Skybuck Flying" <> wrote in message
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> Also I noticed another difference between these two options...
>
> One is - +
>
> The other is + -
>
> Time for me to read up on the concept of texture borders:
>
> Maybe this doc will help :
>
> http://www.opengl.org/resources/code...es/node64.html

The texture border is a 1 pixel border around the texture... normally opengl
will mix the texels at the edge with the borders...

So I guess the "edge" can be considered the last pixels of a texture.

The border can be considered the pixels outside/around the texture.

OpenGL also allows the border color to be specified.

I will not be dealing with borders, so I want to get rid of the border.

I also do not want any filtering... so nearest will do just fine...

So from that doc I think this clamp to edge will do just fine:

"
GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE

This mode clamps the texture coordinates such that the texture border is
never sampled. The filtered color is derived only from texels at the edge of
the texture image.
"

Hoping that it works fingers crossed !

Me better save that document it's a good explanation of texture borders and
edges !

Also I am not yet sure if texture coordinates always have to be from 0 to 1
for clamping to work...

I should be able to specify the texture dimensions/range somewhere /
texture coordinate ranges (? Hmm )

I already tested what happens when large texture coordinates are passed to
vertex and pixel shader they come through just fine... not sure what happens
when clamping is enabled ? and tex2d is done ? me-to-find-out

Bye,
Skybuck.