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# Sampler

Texture units have many options for selecting texels from loaded textures; this state controls an individual texture unit’s texel-sampling settings.

Texture coordinates are always treated as four-dimensional, and referred to with the traditional (S, T, R, Q) notation.

## Members

wrap_s

  How to wrap the S coordinate. One of PIPE_TEX_WRAP_*.

wrap_t

  How to wrap the T coordinate. One of PIPE_TEX_WRAP_*.

wrap_r

  How to wrap the R coordinate. One of PIPE_TEX_WRAP_*.

The wrap modes are:

- `PIPE_TEX_WRAP_REPEAT`: Standard coord repeat/wrap-around mode.

- `PIPE_TEX_WRAP_CLAMP_TO_EDGE`: Clamp coord to edge of texture, the border color is never sampled.

- `PIPE_TEX_WRAP_CLAMP_TO_BORDER`: Clamp coord to border of texture, the border color is sampled when coords go outside the range [0,1].

- `PIPE_TEX_WRAP_CLAMP`: The coord is clamped to the range [0,1] before scaling to the texture size. This corresponds to the legacy OpenGL GL_CLAMP texture wrap mode. Historically, this mode hasn’t acted consistently across all graphics hardware. It sometimes acts like CLAMP_TO_EDGE or CLAMP_TO_BORDER. The behavior may also vary depending on linear vs. nearest sampling mode.

- `PIPE_TEX_WRAP_MIRROR_REPEAT`: If the integer part of the coordinate is odd, the coord becomes (1 - coord). Then, normal texture REPEAT is applied to the coord.

- `PIPE_TEX_WRAP_MIRROR_CLAMP_TO_EDGE`: First, the absolute value of the coordinate is computed. Then, regular CLAMP_TO_EDGE is applied to the coord.

- `PIPE_TEX_WRAP_MIRROR_CLAMP_TO_BORDER`: First, the absolute value of the coordinate is computed. Then, regular CLAMP_TO_BORDER is applied to the coord.

- `PIPE_TEX_WRAP_MIRROR_CLAMP`: First, the absolute value of the coord is computed. Then, regular CLAMP is applied to the coord.

min_img_filter

  The image filter to use when minifying texels. One of PIPE_TEX_FILTER_*.

mag_img_filter

  The image filter to use when magnifying texels. One of PIPE_TEX_FILTER_*.

The texture image filter modes are:

- `PIPE_TEX_FILTER_NEAREST`: One texel is fetched from the texture image at the texture coordinate.

- `PIPE_TEX_FILTER_LINEAR`: Two, four or eight texels (depending on the texture dimensions; 1D/2D/3D) are fetched from the texture image and linearly weighted and blended together.

min_mip_filter

  The filter to use when minifying mipmapped textures. One of PIPE_TEX_MIPFILTER_*.

The texture mip filter modes are:

- `PIPE_TEX_MIPFILTER_NEAREST`: A single mipmap level/image is selected according to the texture LOD (lambda) value.

- `PIPE_TEX_MIPFILTER_LINEAR`: The two mipmap levels/images above/below the texture LOD value are sampled from. The results of sampling from those two images are blended together with linear interpolation.

- `PIPE_TEX_MIPFILTER_NONE`: Mipmap filtering is disabled. All texels are taken from the level 0 image.

compare_mode

  If set to PIPE_TEX_COMPARE_R_TO_TEXTURE, the result of texture sampling is not a color but a true/false value which is the result of comparing the sampled texture value (typically a Z value from a depth texture) to the texture coordinate’s R component. If set to PIPE_TEX_COMPARE_NONE, no comparison calculation is performed.

compare_func

  The inequality operator used when compare_mode=1. One of PIPE_FUNC_x.

unnormalized_coords

  If set, incoming texture coordinates are used as-is to compute texel addresses. When set, only a subset of the texture wrap modes are allowed: PIPE_TEX_WRAP_CLAMP, PIPE_TEX_WRAP_CLAMP_TO_EDGE, and PIPE_TEX_WRAP_CLAMP_TO_BORDER. If unset, the incoming texture coordinates are assumed to be normalized to the range [0, 1], and will be scaled by the texture dimensions to compute texel addresses.

lod_bias

  Bias factor which is added to the computed level of detail. The normal level of detail is computed from the partial derivatives of the texture coordinates and/or the fragment shader TEX/TXB/TXL instruction.

min_lod

  Minimum level of detail, used to clamp LOD after bias. The LOD values correspond to mipmap levels where LOD=0 is the level 0 mipmap image.

max_lod

  Maximum level of detail, used to clamp LOD after bias.

border_color

  Color union used for texel coordinates that are outside the [0,width-1], [0, height-1] or [0, depth-1] ranges. Interpreted according to sampler view format, unless the driver reports pipe_caps.texture_border_color_quirk, in which case special care has to be taken (see description of the cap).

max_anisotropy

  Maximum anisotropy ratio to use when sampling from textures. For example, if max_anisotropy=4, a region of up to 1 by 4 texels will be sampled. Set to zero to disable anisotropic filtering. Any other setting enables anisotropic filtering, however it’s not unexpected some drivers only will change their filtering with a setting of 2 and higher.

seamless_cube_map

  If set, the bilinear filter of a cube map may take samples from adjacent cube map faces when sampled near a texture border to produce a seamless look.