>
> >what methods are missing? We could add a few shortcuts...
>
> Cool, modifying/extending the API would be really helpful here. Let me
> explain where the problem lies:
>
> In the TextureRenderer API theres no way to set the texture target. It
> implicitly generates a GL_TEXTURE_2D Texture internally wich u can obtained
> via getTexture() . Ok, then I got the Texture and tried to modifiy the
> target to GL_TEXTURE_1D directly. But in the Texture API theres only a
> getTarget() method. So I dug deeper into the rabbithole and tried to change
> the target via updateImage(TextureData data, int target) using a custom
> generated TextureData object. But that more or less failed because the
> constructor for TextureData wants the data as NIO Buffer. And so here we are
> going round in circles juggling around with Buffers what we wanted to avoid
> in the first place when using TextureRenderer ...
>
> So my suggestion for TextureRenderer is: Add a method to directly change the
> texture target e.g. "setTarget(int inTarget)". For the sake of encapslation
> this maybe put into the Texture class and two "higher-level" functions e.g.
> "setTexture1D()" "setTexture2D()" could be added to the TextureRenderer API.