LavishGUI:Textures

Introduction

What is a texture?

A texture is simply an image (or portion of an image).

Why use textures?

ISUI can elements use one or more textures to beautify their appearance. For example, a button that just looks like a rectangle isn't very beautiful. However, applying a texture to give it a picture or a 3D appearance makes the button more enjoyable.

Using Textures

Textures are referenced by filename and color key (used to treat a single given 32-bit color as transparent), and allow other properties. Textures MAY be templated.

Attributes

• FileName

Image filename. The image may be any of those supported by Direct3D's D3DX library: .bmp, .dds, .dib, .hdr, .jpg, .pfm, .png, .ppm, and .tga

• ColorKey

32-bit color to consider transparent

Properties

Rectangle

• Left

Leftmost pixel of the base image to use for this texture

• Right

Rightmost pixel of the base image to use for this texture

• Top

Topmost pixel of the base image to use for this texture

• Bottom

Bottom-most pixel of the base image to use for this texture

Others

• Alpha

Not yet implemented. Will be used for overall alpha level of this texture.

• Border

Uniform size, in pixels, of the border area of this texture.

• ColorMask

32-bit color to apply to the texture

• Orientation

Rotation to apply to the texture. Valid values are 0 to 3 (0 being default). The texture will be rotated 90 degrees clockwise for each 1 (e.g. 1=90, 2=180, 3=270 degrees).