Sets a read-only buffer that can be accessed by the specified compute shader.
You can bind up to 64 different buffer and image resources for read access by a compute shader. These will use registers t0 through t63.
Take note that buffers and textures share the same register slots, thus setting a buffer to slot 1 followed by setting a texture to the same slot will overwrite the previously set buffer.
You can unbind buffers by specifying nullptr as the buffer argument; this is neccessary if the same buffer is bound as a RW buffer by the same shader since a resource cannot simultaneously be bound for
read-only and write access (you can read from the read/write resource as the name suggests though).
Read-only buffers are declared like so in HLSL:

• Buffer BufferName : register(t?) where «datatype» can be either bool, int, uint or float and ? ranges between 0 and 63 for array buffers
[DX11 only]

• StructuredBuffer BufferName : register(t?) where ? ranges between 0 and 63 for structured buffers


• ByteAddressBuffer BufferName : register(t?) where ? ranges between 0 and 63 for byte address buffers

DX11 SET COMPUTE SHADER BUFFER shader, slot, buffer

shader

Dword
The compute shader to set the buffer resource for.

slot

Dword
The shader register slot to bind the buffer to. The valid range is 0 through 63. Take note that texture resources use the same register slots.

buffer

Dword
The buffer to bind to the specified slot of the given compute shader. Set to nullptr to remove a previously bound buffer / texture from the given slot.

This function does not return a value.

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