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Texture2DArray

class in UnityEngine

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Inherits from:Texture

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Description

Class for handling 2D texture arrays.

Modern graphics APIs (e.g. D3D10 and later, OpenGL ES 3.0 and later, Metal etc.) support "texture arrays", which is an array of same size & format textures. From the shader side, they are treated as a single resource, and sampling them needs an extra coordinate that indicates which array element to sample from.

Typically texture arrays are useful as an alternative for texture atlases, or in other cases where objects use a set of same-sized textures (e.g. terrains).

Currently in Unity texture arrays do not have an import pipeline for them, and must be created from code, either at runtime or in editor scripts. Using Graphics.CopyTexture is useful for fast copying of pixel data from regular 2D textures into elements of a texture array. From editor scripts, a common way of creating serialized texture array is to create it, fill with data (either via Graphics.CopyTexture from regular 2D textures, or via SetPixels or SetPixels32) and save it as an asset via AssetDatabase.CreateAsset.

Note that not all platforms and GPUs support texture arrays; for example Direct3D9 and OpenGL ES 2.0 do not. Use SystemInfo.supports2DArrayTextures to check.

Properties

depthNumber of elements in a texture array (Read Only).
formatTexture format (Read Only).

Constructors

Texture2DArrayCreate a new texture array.

Public Methods

ApplyActually apply all previous SetPixels changes.
GetPixelsReturns pixel colors of a single array slice.
GetPixels32Returns pixel colors of a single array slice.
SetPixelsSet pixel colors for the whole mip level.
SetPixels32Set pixel colors for the whole mip level.

Inherited Members

Properties

hideFlagsShould the object be hidden, saved with the scene or modifiable by the user?
nameThe name of the object.
anisoLevelAnisotropic filtering level of the texture.
dimensionDimensionality (type) of the texture (Read Only).
filterModeFiltering mode of the texture.
heightHeight of the texture in pixels. (Read Only)
imageContentsHashThe hash value of the Texture.
mipMapBiasMip map bias of the texture.
widthWidth of the texture in pixels. (Read Only)
wrapModeTexture coordinate wrapping mode.
wrapModeUTexture U coordinate wrapping mode.
wrapModeVTexture V coordinate wrapping mode.
wrapModeWTexture W coordinate wrapping mode for Texture3D.

Public Methods

GetInstanceIDReturns the instance id of the object.
ToStringReturns the name of the GameObject.
GetNativeTexturePtrRetrieve a native (underlying graphics API) pointer to the texture resource.

Static Methods

DestroyRemoves a gameobject, component or asset.
DestroyImmediateDestroys the object obj immediately. You are strongly recommended to use Destroy instead.
DontDestroyOnLoadMakes the object target not be destroyed automatically when loading a new scene.
FindObjectOfTypeReturns the first active loaded object of Type type.
FindObjectsOfTypeReturns a list of all active loaded objects of Type type.
InstantiateClones the object original and returns the clone.
SetGlobalAnisotropicFilteringLimitsSets Anisotropic limits.

Operators

boolDoes the object exist?
operator !=Compares if two objects refer to a different object.
operator ==Compares two object references to see if they refer to the same object.

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