Named Textures

Defining a texture is a significant amount of work - it involves transferring all of the image data to the graphics hardware.

Named textures let you assign an ID to a texture, so that it can be sent to the hardware once, and then used again later by just "binding" the texture's name.

GLuint textureID1;


glGenTextures(1, &textureID1);


glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureID1);

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