Shader source

This compiles just fine, but when I try to load it in MonoGame, SharpDX gives me a cryptic "Invalid Parameter" error.

9 hours ago, Steve_Segreto said:

passing a texture sampler

That is what I'm looking at as well. This doc.microsoft talks about shader model changes. sampler_state{Texture= is a d3d9 keyword only. Surely not sm4.0

is a similar discussion I believe.

I changed it, it didn't work!

58 minutes ago, MarkK. said:

sampler_state{Texture= is a d3d9 keyword only. Surely not sm4.0

Wait, what?

Ok so how would that be in SM4.0?

Here's the new code:

texture DisplacementMap;
/*sampler DisplacementSampler = sampler_state
{
	Texture = <DisplacementMap>;
	MipFilter = Point;
	MinFilter = Point;
	MagFilter = Point;
	AddressU = Clamp;
	AddressV = Clamp;
};*/

SamplerState DisplacementSampler
{
	Texture = <DisplacementMap>;
	MipFilter = Point;
	MinFilter = Point;
	MagFilter = Point;
	AddressU = Clamp;
	AddressV = Clamp;
};

struct VS_INPUT 
{
	float4 position	: POSITION;
	float4 uv : TEXCOORD0;
};
struct VS_OUTPUT
{
	float4 uv : TEXCOORD0;
	float4 worldPos : TEXCOORD1;
	float4 textureWeights : TEXCOORD2;
	float4 position  : POSITION;
};

float4x4 world;
float4x4 view;
float4x4 proj;

float maxHeight = 128;

float textureSize = 512.0f;
float texelSize = 1.0f / 512.0f; //size of one texel;

float4 tex2Dlod_bilinear(/*sampler texSam,*/ float4 uv)
{
	float4 height00 = tex2Dlod(DisplacementSampler, uv);
	float4 height10 = tex2Dlod(DisplacementSampler, uv + float4(texelSize, 0, 0, 0));
	float4 height01 = tex2Dlod(DisplacementSampler, uv + float4(0, texelSize, 0, 0));
	float4 height11 = tex2Dlod(DisplacementSampler, uv + float4(texelSize, texelSize, 0, 0));

	float2 f = frac(uv.xy * textureSize);

	float4 tA = lerp(height00, height10, f.x);
	float4 tB = lerp(height01, height11, f.x);

	return lerp(tA, tB, f.y);
}

VS_OUTPUT Transform(VS_INPUT In)
{
	VS_OUTPUT Out = (VS_OUTPUT)0;
	float4x4 viewProj = mul(view, proj);
	float4x4 worldViewProj = mul(world, viewProj);

	float height = tex2Dlod_bilinear(/*DisplacementSampler,*/ float4(In.uv.xy, 0, 0)).r;

	In.position.y = height * maxHeight;
	Out.worldPos = mul(In.position, world);
	Out.position = mul(In.position, worldViewProj);
	Out.uv = In.uv;
	float4 TexWeights = 0;

	TexWeights.x = saturate(1.0f - abs(height - 0) / 0.2f);
	TexWeights.y = saturate(1.0f - abs(height - 0.3) / 0.25f);
	TexWeights.z = saturate(1.0f - abs(height - 0.6) / 0.25f);
	TexWeights.w = saturate(1.0f - abs(height - 0.9) / 0.25f);
	float totalWeight = TexWeights.x + TexWeights.y + TexWeights.z + TexWeights.w;
	TexWeights /= totalWeight;
	Out.textureWeights = TexWeights;

	return Out;
}

technique GridDraw
{
	pass P0
	{
		VertexShader = compile vs_4_0 Transform();
	}
}

I'm not saying the previously mentioned is your problem, but clearly you are missing the suggestion that the keyword -Texture in the sampler_state block will probably not be valid in shader model 4 as you define in your technique pass.

reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3dhlsl/dx-graphics-hlsl-to-sample

If the api you are using is d3d9, try vs_4_0_level_9_1 perhaps. This is what my declaration looks like (monogame)

texture ModelTexture;
sampler2D TextureSampler = sampler_state 
{ 
	Texture   = (ModelTexture);
	MagFilter = Linear;
	MinFilter = Linear;
	AddressU  = Clamp;
	AddressV  = Clamp;	
};

12 minutes ago, MarkK. said:

I'm not saying the previously mentioned is your problem, but clearly you are missing the suggestion that the keyword Texture in the sampler_state block will probably not be valid in shader model 4 as you define in your technique pass. 

Thanks! How do I pass the texture to the sampler?

This [gamedev.se] discussion touches on that and an access optimization.