How to get texture data using textureID's in openGL

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Sonoman picture Sonoman · Feb 25, 2011 · Viewed 26.3k times · Source

I'm writing some code where all I have access to is a textureID to get access to the required texture. Is there any way that I can get access to the RGB values of this texture so I can perform some computations on it?

EDIT: I am looking for the inverse of glTexSubImage2D. I want to get the texture data rather than replace it.

Answer

Greg S picture Greg S · Feb 25, 2011

You are probably looking for glGetTexImage (see https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/GLAPI/glGetTexImage for further information).

Before using glGetTexImage, don't forget to use glBindTexture (https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/GLAPI/glBindTexture) with your texture ID.

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