What is a floating point texture?

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Ross C (Posted 2009) [#1]

I am curious.

markcw (Posted 2009) [#2]

Simply put it's a texture that has its texels (texture pixels) stored as floating points.

Warpy (Posted 2009) [#3]

so instead of R,G,B each stored as integers in the range 0 - 255, they're instead floating point numbers in the range 0 - 1. Clearly, this gives you a much broader range of numbers to pick!