Is there a fast alternative to creating a Texture2D from a Bitmap object in XNA?

Question

I\'ve looked around a lot and the only methods I\'ve found for creating a Texture2D from a Bitmap are:

using  (MemoryStream s = new  MemoryStream())
{
   bmp.Sav         


        

Answer 1

they have changed the format from bgra to rgba in XNA 4.0, so that method gives strange colors, the red and blue channels needs to be switched. Here's a method i wrote that is super fast! (loads 1500x 256x256 pixel textures in about 3 seconds).

    private Texture2D GetTexture(GraphicsDevice dev, System.Drawing.Bitmap bmp)
    {
        int[] imgData = new int[bmp.Width * bmp.Height];
        Texture2D texture = new Texture2D(dev, bmp.Width, bmp.Height);

        unsafe
        {
            // lock bitmap
            System.Drawing.Imaging.BitmapData origdata = 
                bmp.LockBits(new System.Drawing.Rectangle(0, 0, bmp.Width, bmp.Height), System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageLockMode.ReadOnly, bmp.PixelFormat);

            uint* byteData = (uint*)origdata.Scan0;

            // Switch bgra -> rgba
            for (int i = 0; i < imgData.Length; i++)
            {
                byteData[i] = (byteData[i] & 0x000000ff) << 16 | (byteData[i] & 0x0000FF00) | (byteData[i] & 0x00FF0000) >> 16 | (byteData[i] & 0xFF000000);                        
            }                

            // copy data
            System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.Copy(origdata.Scan0, imgData, 0, bmp.Width * bmp.Height);

            byteData = null;

            // unlock bitmap
            bmp.UnlockBits(origdata);
        }

        texture.SetData(imgData);

        return texture;
    }