XPLMBindTexture2d

XPLMBindTexture2d

XPLM_API void       XPLMBindTexture2d(
                         int                  inTextureNum,
                         int                  inTextureUnit);

XPLMBindTexture2d changes what texture is bound to the 2d texturing target. This routine caches the current 2d texture across all texturing units in the sim and plug-ins, preventing extraneous binding. For example, consider several plug-ins running in series; if they all use the ‘general interface’ bitmap to do UI, calling this function will skip the rebinding of the general interface texture on all but the first plug-in, which can provide better frame rates on some graphics cards.

inTextureID is the ID of the texture object to bind; inTextureUnit is a zero-based texture unit (e.g. 0 for the first one), up to a maximum of 4 units. (This number may increase in future versions of X-Plane.)

Use this routine instead of glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, ….);