Loading a BMP into an OpenGL textures switches the red and blue colors. (C++/Windows)

Question

I\'m trying to load a bitmap into an OpenGL texture and display it to the screen, but when I do so, the red and blue values seem to switch (e.g.: a blue image appears orange

Answer 1

You'll normally have a call to glTexImage2D that specifies the external format of the pixels. From the sounds of things, you need to check that and switch from GL_RGB to GL_BGR.