Read image from file

[iliyachi]

Hi everyone,

I want to initialize PF_EffectWorld using image from disk. Roughly speaking, I want to write something like this:

PF_EffectWorld* img = EffectWorldLoadFunction("1.jpg");

Does AE SDK have such functionality? Or I have to use external library (like OpenCV) for the correct reading of different image formats?

Thanks,

Ilya

[Guest · Accepted solution]

No, the SDK does not offer this functionality, but as you said, you are free to use a library like SOIL, OpenCV, libpng/tiff/jpg, CImg or whatever to load an external file into a buffer in memory and then copy the pixels in the right format to your effect world.

[iliyachi]

Thank you for detailed answer!

[Vexonomer]

Very late to this party, but could you explain how to copy the pixels from a buffer to an effect world?