Create shader resource view from backbuffer texture

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by IrYoKu1 November 11, 2010 10:54 AM

5 comments, last by IrYoKu1 13 years, 5 months ago

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November 11, 2010 10:54 AM

Hey guys,

I would like to use the backbuffer as a shader resource (I don't want to create additional intermediate rendertargets).

Is there any way of using CreateShaderResourceView to obtain a shader resource view from the backbuffer? I just debugged a little and it seems that the swapchain Texture2D is created using only D3D10_BIND_RENDER_TARGET. For being able to create a shader resource view it should be created using D3D10_BIND_RENDER_TARGET | D3D10_BIND_SHADER_RESOURCE. Is there any way to control this, or maybe other workaround for using the backbuffer as shader resource input in a shader?

Cheers!
Jorge

DieterVW

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November 11, 2010 11:32 AM

Yes, when the call to CreateDeviceAndSwapChain(), or the call to just CreateSwapChain() is made you have the opportunity to indicate usage flags for the back buffer using DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_DESC::BufferUsage. The flags would be: DXGI_USAGE_RENDER_TARGET_OUTPUT | DXGI_USAGE_SHADER_INPUT

IrYoKu1

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November 11, 2010 12:58 PM

Thanks! It did the trick.

We are facing other problem now: we want to create both a RGB and a SRGB shader resource views. AFAIK, for this, the format of the underlaying Texture2D format must be typeless (DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_TYPELESS). However it seems DX doesn't allow to create a device with a DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_TYPELESS format as backbuffer (we are using DXGI_MODE_DESC in the DXUTSetCallbackDeviceChanging callback to set the backbuffer format). Do you know of any workaround for this problem?

Thanks!