Is it possible to declare and initialize a texture inside a .metal file?

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I was just wondering, instead of creating a texture, initializing data to it via blit command encoder if it is private or by using MTLTexture replace if it not private, and passing it to GPU using setFragmentTexture, can I have the texture already ready to use inside the .metal file similar to:

constant const texture2d<half> my_texture = {/* Texture Data */};

Is this possible?

@JustSomeGuy Do you have a citation or more details? It would be nice to have this question answered before getting Roomba deleted. — user16217248, May 23 '23 at 22:10
My citation is that this is not mentioned anywhere in the spec and that's just not how API works: each resource has to have a CPU `MTLResource` object. — JustSomeGuy, May 24 '23 at 16:40

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '23 at 16:43

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As per comment:

It is not possible to do that. Each resource has to have a CPU MTLResource object.

answered May 24 '23 at 16:43

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Is it possible to declare and initialize a texture inside a .metal file?

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