Shader:sendImage

Sends a Texture to a Shader for writing. This is meant to be used with compute shaders and only works with uniforms declared as image2D, imageCube, image2DArray, and image3D. The normal Shader:send function accepts Textures and should be used most of the time.

Shader:sendImage(name, slice, mipmap, access)

Arguments

Name	Type	Default	Description
name	string		The name of the image uniform.
slice	number	nil	The slice of a cube, array, or volume texture to use, or nil for all slices.
mipmap	number	1	The mipmap of the texture to use.
access	UniformAccess	readwrite	Whether the image will be read from, written to, or both.

Returns

Nothing

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Shader:sendImage(name, index, slice, mipmap, access)

Arguments

Name	Type	Default	Description
name	string		The name of the image uniform.
index	number		The array index to set.
slice	number	nil	The slice of a cube, array, or volume texture to use, or nil for all slices.
mipmap	number	1	The mipmap of the texture to use.
access	UniformAccess	readwrite	Whether the image will be read from, written to, or both.

Returns

Nothing

See also

• Shader:send
• ShaderBlock:send
• ShaderBlock:getShaderCode
• UniformAccess
• ShaderBlock
• Shader