Can you look sample a texture in a vertex shader?

hlsl direct3d11
bobobobo picture bobobobo · Dec 15, 2011 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

In shader model 3.0, I'm pretty sure this was a no but I want to ask this anyway,

In shader model 5.0, can you sample a texture in a vertex shader?

If I want to make large amounts of supplementary information available per-vertex, what are my options?

Edit: Apparently it is possible to do a Vertex Texture Fetch, as done here, but when I try it in my hlsl shader model 5 program, I get the error

error X4532: cannot map expression to vs_5_0 instruction set

Answer

bobobobo picture bobobobo · Dec 15, 2011

Yes, sampling a texture from a vertex shader is very easily done in Shader Model 5.0, using operator[ unint2 ] on any Texture2D object.

So for example, tex0 is a Texture2D object in a shader model 5 hlsl program:

Texture2D tex0 : register( t0 );

// in a vertex shader program
uint2 pos_xy = { 0, 1 } ;
texelColor = tex0[ pos_xy ] ;

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