Textures

A texture is a displayable image, or a piece of intermediate data used for computation, which is mapped to the surface of a rendered object via UV coordinates to give it a richer and more realistic effect. The following are some of the applications of textures in Cocos Creator:

• Used for 2D UI rendering, see the SpriteFrame documentation for details.

• Used for 3D model rendering. A texture asset needs to be specified in the material, to render and map it to the mesh surface.Textures also support switching to cube map or normal map when importing image assets.

• Used for the particle system to make particles more expressive. As with 3D models, the use of textures in particle system also depends on materials.

• Used for terrain rendering, see the Terrain system documentation for details.

More Reference

• RenderTexture
• Texture Compression