Complex Texture Types

Textures are often considered only as one- or two-dimensional images that may be read from. However, there are several types of textures, including 3D textures, texture arrays, and cube maps, shadows, depth-stencil, and buffer textures. This section describes the types of texture and outlines their potential use cases.

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