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loadImageBitmap

A simple small utility to load images from URLs. The loaded ImageBitmaps can be used to create textures.

Usage​

import {loadImageBitmap} from `@luma.gl/engine`;
const imageBitmap = await loadImageBitmap(url);

Functions​

loadImageBitmap()​

loadImageBitmap(url: string, options? : {crossOrigin?: string}): ImageBitmap

A basic image loading function for loading a single image (or an array of mipmap images representing a single image).

  • url: The url for each image, it is called for each image with the lod of that image.
  • options.crossOrigin: Defaults to 'anonymous'.

Returns:

  • ImageBitmap the loaded image

Remarks​

  • The @loaders.gl/images module provides a range of more capable texture loaders for additional compressed and super-compressed texture formats, texture cubes, composite textures etc.