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What's the difference between LoadTexture and SampleTexture?

Discussion in 'Visual Effect Graph' started by andybak, Mar 12, 2020.

  1. andybak

    andybak

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    And why is there zero documentation for blocks and nodes! Some of them are obvious but quite a few aren't.

    (Also - docs should cover the "why" and "how" instead of just the "what" but that's a debate for another day...)
     
    andybak, Mar 12, 2020
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  2. JulienF_Unity

    JulienF_Unity

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    Node library documentation will come in the future.

    To answer you question:
    • SampleTexture takes uv (so in normalized coordinates) as input and use the texture sampler for interpolation (nearest, bilinear, trilinear...)
    • LoadTexture takes texel coordinates as input and doesn't perform interpolation (you get the exact value of the sampled texel)
     
    JulienF_Unity, Mar 12, 2020
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