SDL_BindGPUComputeSamplers(3)

💖 SDL_BindGPUComputeSamplers(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS section of the manual, and today's main character is SDL_BindGPUComputeSamplers 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_BindGPUComputeSamplers — binds texture-sampler pairs for use on the compute shader 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_gpu.h>

void SDL_BindGPUComputeSamplers(
    SDL_GPUComputePass *compute_pass,
    Uint32 first_slot,
    const SDL_GPUTextureSamplerBinding *texture_sampler_bindings,
    Uint32 num_bindings);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: you're feeding texture-sampler pairs to your compute shader, and this function is the one holding the aux cord 🎧

The textures must have been created with SDL_GPU_TEXTUREUSAGE_SAMPLER. like, non-negotiable, that's the whole prerequisite.

The textures being bound must have a matching type declared in the shader (2D, 3D, etc.). Multisample textures are not allowed — nope, not happening, not today 🙈

Be sure your shader is set up according to the requirements documented in SDL_CreateGPUComputePipeline(). no cap, go read that one too, it's the blueprint bestie 📋

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💅 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 💅

• compute_pass — a compute pass handle. it's giving "the pass we're doing all this in" ✨
• first_slot — the compute sampler slot to begin binding from. where the story starts, lowkey 📍
• texture_sampler_bindings — an array of texture-sampler binding structs. the whole squad, lined up 🧚
• num_bindings — the number of texture-sampler bindings to bind from the array. how many of the squad are actually walking in 🚶♀️

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0. iconic behavior, honestly 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• SDL_CreateGPUComputePipeline(3) — the lore you need for the shader setup, iykyk 🔥

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and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate 💅 this little writeup came from Simple Directmedia Layer, version SDL 3.4.18, and yes it's literally the same SDL_BindGPUComputeSamplers(3) energy you came in with — periodt 💖✨🎀