What Are Texture Addressing Modes?

Your Microsoft® Direct3D® application can assign texture coordinates to any vertex of any primitive. For details, see Texture Coordinates. Typically, the u- and v-texture coordinates that you assign to a vertex are in the range of 0.0 to 1.0 inclusive. However, by assigning texture coordinates outside that range, you can create certain special texturing effects.

You control what Direct3D does with texture coordinates that are outside the [0.0, 1.0] range by setting the texture addressing mode. For instance, you can have your application set the texture addressing mode so that a texture is tiled across a primitive. The following topics contain additional details:

• Wrap Texture Address Mode
• Mirror Texture Address Mode
• Clamp Texture Address Mode
• Border Color Texture Address Mode

See Also

Texture Addressing Modes

 Last updated on Thursday, April 08, 2004

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