Specifies which texture is to be obtained. GL_TEXTURE_1D, GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_3D, GL_TEXTURE_1D_ARRAY, GL_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY, GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE, GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_POSITIVE_X, GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_NEGATIVE_X, GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_POSITIVE_Y, GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_NEGATIVE_Y, GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_POSITIVE_Z, and GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_NEGATIVE_Z are accepted.
Specifies the level-of-detail number of the desired image. Level 0 is the base image level. Level 𝐧 is the 𝐧ᵗʰ mipmap reduction image.
Specifies a pixel format for the returned data. The supported formats are GL_STENCIL_INDEX, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT, GL_DEPTH_STENCIL, GL_RED, GL_GREEN, GL_BLUE, GL_RG, GL_RGB, GL_RGBA, GL_BGR, GL_BGRA, GL_RED_INTEGER, GL_GREEN_INTEGER, GL_BLUE_INTEGER, GL_RG_INTEGER, GL_RGB_INTEGER, GL_RGBA_INTEGER, GL_BGR_INTEGER, GL_BGRA_INTEGER.
Specifies a pixel type for the returned data. The supported types are GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, GL_BYTE, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, GL_SHORT, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, GL_INT, GL_HALF_FLOAT, GL_FLOAT, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE_3_3_2, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE_2_3_3_REV, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT_5_6_5, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT_5_6_5_REV, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT_4_4_4_4, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT_4_4_4_4_REV, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT_5_5_5_1, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT_1_5_5_5_REV, GL_UNSIGNED_INT_8_8_8_8, GL_UNSIGNED_INT_8_8_8_8_REV, GL_UNSIGNED_INT_10_10_10_2, GL_UNSIGNED_INT_2_10_10_10_REV, GL_UNSIGNED_INT_24_8, GL_UNSIGNED_INT_10F_11F_11F_REV, GL_UNSIGNED_INT_5_9_9_9_REV, and GL_FLOAT_32_UNSIGNED_INT_24_8_REV.
Returns the texture image. Should be a pointer to an array of the type specified by type.
return a texture image
Read the texture from GPU memory into a buffer.
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture_id); // texture_id was given by glGenTextures
// texture_data must be large enough to hold the entire texture, in this case
// sizeof(float) * width * height * 3
glGetTexImage(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, GL_FLOAT, texture_data);
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glGetTexImagereturns a texture image into img. target specifies whether the desired texture image is one specified by glTexImage1D (GL_TEXTURE_1D), glTexImage2D (GL_TEXTURE_1D_ARRAY, GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE, GL_TEXTURE_2D or any of GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_*), or glTexImage3D (GL_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY, GL_TEXTURE_3D). level specifies the level-of-detail number of the desired image. format and type specify the format and type of the desired image array. See the reference page for glTexImage1D for a description of the acceptable values for the format and type parameters, respectively.If a non-zero named buffer object is bound to the GL_PIXEL_PACK_BUFFER target (see glBindBuffer) while a texture image is requested, img is treated as a byte offset into the buffer object's data store.
To understand the operation of
glGetTexImage, consider the selected internal four-component texture image to be an RGBA color buffer the size of the image. The semantics ofglGetTexImageare then identical to those of glReadPixels, with the exception that no pixel transfer operations are performed, when called with the same format and type, with x and y set to 0, width set to the width of the texture image and height set to 1 for 1D images, or to the height of the texture image for 2D images.If the selected texture image does not contain four components, the following mappings are applied. Single-component textures are treated as RGBA buffers with red set to the single-component value, green set to 0, blue set to 0, and alpha set to 1. Two-component textures are treated as RGBA buffers with red set to the value of component zero, alpha set to the value of component one, and green and blue set to 0. Finally, three-component textures are treated as RGBA buffers with red set to component zero, green set to component one, blue set to component two, and alpha set to 1.
To determine the required size of img, use glGetTexLevelParameter to determine the dimensions of the internal texture image, then scale the required number of pixels by the storage required for each pixel, based on format and type. Be sure to take the pixel storage parameters into account, especially GL_PACK_ALIGNMENT.