# gl::drawBillboard has no texture
**URL:** https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/gl-drawbillboard-has-no-texture/1359
**Category:** Using Cinder
**Created:** [November 17, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/gl-drawbillboard-has-no-texture/1359 "2018-11-17T23:37:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@gruffler](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/gruffler)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/gl-drawbillboard-has-no-texture/1359/1 "2018-11-17T23:37:29Z")
Hi,
Recently discovered the gl::drawBillboard feature and I have been trying to get it to work and have no idea why I can not get the texture to show on a billboard.
I can see the geometry, its just untextured.
I have made a simplest example below and if someone could give me heads up where I am going wrong I would appreciate it.
> #include “cinder/app/App.h”
> #include “cinder/app/RendererGl.h”
> #include “cinder/gl/gl.h”
>
> using namespace ci;
> using namespace ci::app;
> using namespace std;
>
> class CinderProject1App : public App {
> public:
> void setup() override;
> void update() override;
> void draw() override;
> private:
> CameraPersp mCam;
> gl::TextureRef bbTex;
> };
>
> void CinderProject1App::setup()
> {
> mCam.lookAt(vec3(3, 2, 4), vec3(0));
>
> auto img2 = loadImage(loadAsset(“CARROT2.png”));
> bbTex = gl::Texture::create(img2);
> bbTex-\>bind();
>
> gl::enableDepthWrite();
> gl::enableDepthRead();
> }
>
> void CinderProject1App::update()
> {
> }
>
> void CinderProject1App::draw()
> {
> gl::setMatrices(mCam);
>
> gl::clear(Color(0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f));
>
> glm::vec3 bbup, bbright;
> mCam.getBillboardVectors(&bbright, &bbup);
>
> bbTex-\>bind();
> gl::drawBillboard(glm::vec3(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f), glm::vec2(1.0f, 1.0f), 0.0, bbright, bbup,cinder::Rectf(0.25f, 0.25f, 0.75f, 0.75f));
> bbTex-\>unbind();
>
> }
>
> CINDER\_APP( CinderProject1App, RendererGl )
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### Author:  [@paul.houx](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/paul.houx)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2018, 11:58pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/gl-drawbillboard-has-no-texture/1359/2 "2018-11-17T23:58:30Z")
Hi,
you haven’t created a proper shader for it. With no shader bound, Cinder will bind a default shader which does not sample a texture. One exception is the `gl::draw( texture )` call, which actually does [create and bind a shader](https://github.com/cinder/Cinder/blob/f2d862d0a26456f6372ef217d15a53b8b14bea9c/src/cinder/gl/draw.cpp#L300) that samples the texture.
I haven’t tried your code, nor my solution, but my guess is that the following code change will fix your issue:
```auto
void CinderProject1App::draw()
{
gl::setMatrices(mCam);
gl::clear(Color(0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f));
glm::vec3 bbup, bbright;
mCam.getBillboardVectors(&bbright, &bbup);
auto shader = gl::getStockShader( gl::ShaderDef().texture() );
shader->bind();
bbTex->bind();
gl::drawBillboard(vec3(0.0f), vec2(1.0f), 0.0, bbright, bbup, Rectf(0.25f, 0.25f, 0.75f, 0.75f));
bbTex->unbind();
}
```
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### Author:  [@gruffler](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/gruffler)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/gl-drawbillboard-has-no-texture/1359/3 "2018-11-18T00:17:46Z")
Ahh your right of course. 😫 Knew it would be something obvious!
I did come to this from messing about with gl::draw(texture) as you mentioned too, but I should have known.
Thanks for the fast and helpful reply!
Got billboards! Next is figure out why they are upsidedown… 🕶
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### Author:  [@paul.houx](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/paul.houx)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2018, 12:56am UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/gl-drawbillboard-has-no-texture/1359/4 "2018-11-18T00:56:23Z")
Hey, that’s great!
Try this:
```auto
auto fmt = gl::Texture2d::Format().loadTopDown();
auto image = loadImage( loadAsset( "carrot2.png" ) );
auto texture = gl::Texture2d::create( image, fmt );
```