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[VanillaSnake21]

I'm trying to load bunch of similar textures on to the gpu, and then access them from the cpu.
SSo in my .fx file I have

Texture2D letters[26];

But when it comes time to map that to the ShaderResourceVariable, which is declared like this:

ID3D10EffectShaderResourceVariable* pShaderLetters[26];

I get an error saying something like can't convert * to an array (even though both are arrays).

Any suggestions?

[Asesh]

use Texture2DArray instead

[VanillaSnake21]

Asesh, on 25 February 2012 - 08:18 PM, said:

use Texture2DArray instead

Now it's saying can't conver implicitly from float 2 to float3? Can you give me an example of how this is done. The line where I get the error is this (in .fx file):

if(letterCode == 1) color = letterTextures[0].Sample(linearSampler, input.t); return color;

[relaxok]

With a Texture2DArray, you index into the texture array with the z coordinate when calling .Sample - you don't [] index.

e.g.

Texture2DArray myTextures : register(t0);

then later..

float4 color = myTextures.Sample( sampler, float3( u, v, textureIndex ) );

A Texture2DArray is created differently though. You have to give it an array size in the texture desc, and when creating the SRV set the TEXTURE2DARRAY view dimension and Texture2DArray.* variables.

[kauna]

VanillaSnake21, on 25 February 2012 - 05:24 PM, said:

I'm trying to load bunch of similar textures on to the gpu, and then access them from the cpu.
SSo in my .fx file I have
Texture2D letters[26];
But when it comes time to map that to the ShaderResourceVariable, which is declared like this:
ID3D10EffectShaderResourceVariable* pShaderLetters[26];

I get an error saying something like can't convert * to an array (even though both are arrays).

Any suggestions?

Paste some more code please, for example the place where you try to bind the texture.

Cheers!