How to create custom empty Texture correctly? - swift

Question

I need to create a MTLTexture with my custom data (which is currently filled with 0), in order to do it I use such an implementation
private func createTexture(frame: UnsafeMutableRawPointer) -> MTLTexture? {
let width = 2048
let height = 2048
let textureDescriptor = MTLTextureDescriptor.texture2DDescriptor(
pixelFormat: MTLPixelFormat.rgba8Unorm,
width: width,
height: height,
mipmapped: false)
textureDescriptor.usage = [.shaderWrite, .shaderRead]
guard let texture: MTLTexture = device?.makeTexture(descriptor: textureDescriptor) else
{
logger?.log(severity: .error, msg: "create texture FAILED.")
return nil
}
let region = MTLRegion.init(origin: MTLOrigin.init(x: 0, y: 0, z: 0), size: MTLSize.init(width: texture.width, height: texture.height, depth: 4));
//MARK: >>> JUST FOR TEST
let count = width * height * 4
let stride = MemoryLayout<CChar>.stride
let alignment = MemoryLayout<CChar>.alignment
let byteCount = stride * count
let p = UnsafeMutableRawPointer.allocate(byteCount: byteCount, alignment: alignment)
let data = p.initializeMemory(as: CChar.self, repeating: 0, count: count)
//MARK: <<<
texture.replace(region: region, mipmapLevel: 0, withBytes: data, bytesPerRow: width * 4)
return texture
}
So, here I created a descriptor with 4 channels, then I created a region with depth: 4, then created UnsafeMutableRawPointer filled with data stride * count size, but I get an error in this line
texture.replace(region: region, mipmapLevel: 0, withBytes: data, bytesPerRow: width * 4)
_validateReplaceRegion:155: failed assertion `(origin.z + size.depth)(4) must be <= depth(1).'
what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The depth property in the following line is incorrect:
let region = MTLRegion.init(origin: MTLOrigin.init(x: 0, y: 0, z: 0), size: MTLSize.init(width: texture.width, height: texture.height, depth: 4));
The depth property describes the number of elements in the z dimension. For 2D texture it should be 1.