#include "tgalib.h" tImageTGA *LoadTGA(const char *filename) { tImageTGA *pImageData = NULL; // This stores our important image data WORD width = 0, height = 0; // The dimensions of the image byte length = 0; // The length in bytes to the pixels byte imageType = 0; // The image type (RLE, RGB, Alpha...) byte bits = 0; // The bits per pixel for the image (16, 24, 32) FILE *pFile = NULL; // The file pointer int channels = 0; // The channels of the image (3 = RGA : 4 = RGBA) int stride = 0; // The stride (channels * width) int i = 0; // A counter // This function loads in a TARGA (.TGA) file and returns its data to be // used as a texture or what have you. This currently loads in a 16, 24 // and 32-bit targa file, along with RLE compressed files. Eventually you // will want to do more error checking to make it more robust. This is // also a perfect start to go into a modular class for an engine. // Basically, how it works is, you read in the header information, then // move your file pointer to the pixel data. Before reading in the pixel // data, we check to see the if it's an RLE compressed image. This is because // we will handle it different. If it isn't compressed, then we need another // check to see if we need to convert it from 16-bit to 24 bit. 24-bit and // 32-bit textures are very similar, so there's no need to do anything special. // We do, however, read in an extra bit for each color. // Open a file pointer to the targa file and check if it was found and opened if((pFile = fopen(filename, "rb")) == NULL) { return NULL; } // Allocate the structure that will hold our eventual image data (must free it!) pImageData = (tImageTGA*)malloc(sizeof(tImageTGA)); // Read in the length in bytes from the header to the pixel data fread(&length, sizeof(byte), 1, pFile); // Jump over one byte fseek(pFile,1,SEEK_CUR); // Read in the imageType (RLE, RGB, etc...) fread(&imageType, sizeof(byte), 1, pFile); // Skip past general information we don't care about fseek(pFile, 9, SEEK_CUR); // Read the width, height and bits per pixel (16, 24 or 32) fread(&width, sizeof(WORD), 1, pFile); fread(&height, sizeof(WORD), 1, pFile); fread(&bits, sizeof(byte), 1, pFile); // Now we move the file pointer to the pixel data fseek(pFile, length + 1, SEEK_CUR); // Check if the image is RLE compressed or not if(imageType != TGA_RLE) { // Check if the image is a 24 or 32-bit image if(bits == 24 || bits == 32) { // Calculate the channels (3 or 4) - (use bits >> 3 for more speed). // Next, we calculate the stride and allocate enough memory for the pixels. channels = bits / 8; stride = channels * width; pImageData->data = new unsigned char[stride * height]; // Load in all the pixel data line by line for(int y = 0; y < height; y++) { // Store a pointer to the current line of pixels unsigned char *pLine = &(pImageData->data[stride * y]); // Read in the current line of pixels fread(pLine, stride, 1, pFile); // Go through all of the pixels and swap the B and R values since TGA // files are stored as BGR instead of RGB (or use GL_BGR_EXT verses GL_RGB) for(i = 0; i < stride; i += channels) { int temp = pLine[i]; pLine[i] = pLine[i + 2]; pLine[i + 2] = temp; } } } // Check if the image is a 16 bit image (RGB stored in 1 unsigned short) else if(bits == 16) { unsigned short pixels = 0; int r=0, g=0, b=0; // Since we convert 16-bit images to 24 bit, we hardcode the channels to 3. // We then calculate the stride and allocate memory for the pixels. channels = 3; stride = channels * width; pImageData->data = new unsigned char[stride * height]; // Load in all the pixel data pixel by pixel for(int i = 0; i < width*height; i++) { // Read in the current pixel fread(&pixels, sizeof(unsigned short), 1, pFile); // To convert a 16-bit pixel into an R, G, B, we need to // do some masking and such to isolate each color value. // 0x1f = 11111 in binary, so since 5 bits are reserved in // each unsigned short for the R, G and B, we bit shift and mask // to find each value. We then bit shift up by 3 to get the full color. b = (pixels & 0x1f) << 3; g = ((pixels >> 5) & 0x1f) << 3; r = ((pixels >> 10) & 0x1f) << 3; // This essentially assigns the color to our array and swaps the // B and R values at the same time. pImageData->data[i * 3 + 0] = r; pImageData->data[i * 3 + 1] = g; pImageData->data[i * 3 + 2] = b; } } // Else return a NULL for a bad or unsupported pixel format else return NULL; } // Else, it must be Run-Length Encoded (RLE) else { // First, let me explain real quickly what RLE is. // For further information, check out Paul Bourke's intro article at: // http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/rle/ // // Anyway, we know that RLE is a basic type compression. It takes // colors that are next to each other and then shrinks that info down // into the color and a integer that tells how much of that color is used. // For instance: // aaaaabbcccccccc would turn into a5b2c8 // Well, that's fine and dandy and all, but how is it down with RGB colors? // Simple, you read in an color count (rleID), and if that number is less than 128, // it does NOT have any optimization for those colors, so we just read the next // pixels normally. Say, the color count was 28, we read in 28 colors like normal. // If the color count is over 128, that means that the next color is optimized and // we want to read in the same pixel color for a count of (colorCount - 127). // It's 127 because we add 1 to the color count, as you'll notice in the code. // Create some variables to hold the rleID, current colors read, channels, & stride. byte rleID = 0; int colorsRead = 0; channels = bits / 8; stride = channels * width; // Next we want to allocate the memory for the pixels and create an array, // depending on the channel count, to read in for each pixel. pImageData->data = new unsigned char[stride * height]; byte *pColors = new byte [channels]; // Load in all the pixel data while(i < width*height) { // Read in the current color count + 1 fread(&rleID, sizeof(byte), 1, pFile); // Check if we don't have an encoded string of colors if(rleID < 128) { // Increase the count by 1 rleID++; // Go through and read all the unique colors found while(rleID) { // Read in the current color fread(pColors, sizeof(byte) * channels, 1, pFile); // Store the current pixel in our image array pImageData->data[colorsRead + 0] = pColors[2]; pImageData->data[colorsRead + 1] = pColors[1]; pImageData->data[colorsRead + 2] = pColors[0]; // If we have a 4 channel 32-bit image, assign one more for the alpha if(bits == 32) pImageData->data[colorsRead + 3] = pColors[3]; // Increase the current pixels read, decrease the amount // of pixels left, and increase the starting index for the next pixel. i++; rleID--; colorsRead += channels; } } // Else, let's read in a string of the same character else { // Minus the 128 ID + 1 (127) to get the color count that needs to be read rleID -= 127; // Read in the current color, which is the same for a while fread(pColors, sizeof(byte) * channels, 1, pFile); // Go and read as many pixels as are the same while(rleID) { // Assign the current pixel to the current index in our pixel array pImageData->data[colorsRead + 0] = pColors[2]; pImageData->data[colorsRead + 1] = pColors[1]; pImageData->data[colorsRead + 2] = pColors[0]; // If we have a 4 channel 32-bit image, assign one more for the alpha if(bits == 32) pImageData->data[colorsRead + 3] = pColors[3]; // Increase the current pixels read, decrease the amount // of pixels left, and increase the starting index for the next pixel. i++; rleID--; colorsRead += channels; } } } // Free up pColors delete[] pColors; } // Close the file pointer that opened the file fclose(pFile); // Fill in our tImageTGA structure to pass back pImageData->channels = channels; pImageData->sizeX = width; pImageData->sizeY = height; // Return the TGA data (remember, you must free this data after you are done) return pImageData; }