Reducing texture memory in openGL ES 1.1

tenfour · by **tenfour** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:54 am

My scene has a number of large textures, but they are grayscale (I'm using them with GL10.GL_ZERO, GL10.GL_SRC_COLOR) with no alpha. I am just using grayscale PNG files. But my app's using a large amount of RAM.

What I don't know is what format it is in after Android has loaded it as a Bitmap and passed it to GL. Also, I don't know if there can be memory savings by somehow indicating to OpenGL that the image only needs 8bits per pixel instead of 24. or 32, or whatever RGBA_8888 uses.

I tried adding a format field like GL_LUMINANCE to GLUtils.texImage2D(), but ended up with a corrupted image. I assume that is because the Bitmap was already in a different format, but I'm not sure how to change it.

Here's my texture loading code:

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gl.glGenTextures(1, mTextureNameWorkspace, 0); 
int textureName=mTextureNameWorkspace[0];
t.name=textureName;
                
InputStream is = context.getResources().openRawResource(t.resource);
Bitmap bitmap = null;
Bitmap temp = null;
try {
        temp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);
        bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(temp, 0, 0, temp.getWidth(), temp.getHeight(), flipY, false);
        temp.recycle();
} finally {
        try {
                is.close();
                is = null;
        } catch (IOException e) {
        }
}
        gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureName);
        gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL10.GL_LINEAR);
        gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL10.GL_LINEAR);
        GLUtils.texImage2D(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, bitmap, 0);
 
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tenfour · by **tenfour** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:23 am

I have also found that passing a Bitmap that is in ALPHA_8 format to GLUtils.textImage2d() results in increased memory use!

Reducing texture memory in openGL ES 1.1

Reducing texture memory in openGL ES 1.1

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