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[Such1]

Hey guys, I`m creating some kind o infinite map, so far everything is okay but I do not know how should I compute the alpha map for the terrain.
I would like to compute every time there is movement, translating what was already generated to it correspond position and generate the new spaces.
I already have the algorimth done in CPU, but I want to use Compute Shaders with 2 textures (1 input 1 output) that keep switching between them. But I do not know how to pass those textures to the Shader, the input is easy but I do not know about the output.
If you have a better way to do it feel free to comment about it.

[Such1]

And I don't think I need the map on the CPU if that improves performance.

[CryZe]

Use UnorderedAccessViews. These views are almost the same as your ShaderResourceViews, but they are writeable as well. In the shader you simply add "RW" as a prefix to your type (e.g. "RWTexture2D"). You might not even need 2 textures this way. You can read your input from and write your output to the same resource.

Edited by CryZe, 28 September 2012 - 01:26 AM.

[Such1]

Yeah, I also thought about that, than I can translate the pixel texture coordinate on the pixelShader instead of coping every frame. I just update the pixels I need to
And also, is there a way to do this with Shader 4.0? Than I can support DIrectX 10 as well

Edited by Such1, 28 September 2012 - 08:56 AM.

[Such1]

Does anyone know any other way I can use ComputeShader to compute my Texture but using Shaders 4.0 instead?Cause than I can use DirectX 10 feature level.