Hello,

I have two 2D texture resources with the same dimension (500 X 500).
The first one with B32G32R32A32_Float format.
The second with B8G8R8A8_UNorm and is used Render Target.
I want to copy the first one to the second one with format conversion.

My underline aim is to render the first texture by

• Copying it to the render view texture
  
• Without using the graphics pipeline.
  

It is possible?
Is there another way of doing it?

Tx,
Meir.

Thanks for the prompt response.

Is there a way to do that on the GPU.
I'm creating the target texture with the following Texture Description (SlimDX / D3D11):

[color=blue]var targetDesc = [color=blue]new [color=#2b91af]Texture2DDescription
{
BindFlags = [color=#2b91af]BindFlags.RenderTarget | [color=#2b91af]BindFlags.ShaderResource,
Format = [color=#2b91af]Format.B8G8R8A8_UNorm,
Width = 500,
Height = 500,
MipLevels = 1,
SampleDescription = [color=blue]new [color=#2b91af]SampleDescription(1, 0),
Usage = [color=#2b91af]ResourceUsage.Default,
OptionFlags = [color=#2b91af]ResourceOptionFlags.Shared,
CpuAccessFlags = [color=#2b91af]CpuAccessFlags.None,
ArraySize = 1,
};


If I add UnorderedAccess to the BingFlags in the above description I get "invalid parameter" exception when creating the texture.

So, I cannot create a UAV for target texture.
With no UAV I cannot create a Compute Shader to do the work.

Tx,
Meir.

Thanks. It's a good idea . I rendered to it and it works fine!