makeTextureView(pixelFormat:)

A new texture object that shares the same storage allocation of the texture.

Not all pixel formats are compatible with one another; for example, you can't use this method between color pixel formats of different sizes. Reinterpretation of image data between pixel formats is supported within the following groups:

• All 8-bit color formats

• All 16-bit color formats

• All 32-bit color formats

• All 64-bit color formats

• All 128-bit color formats

• sRGB and non-sRGB forms of the same compressed format; for example:

  • Between MTLPixelFormat.bc1_rgba and MTLPixelFormat.bc1_rgba_srgb

  • Between MTLPixelFormat.pvrtc_rgb_2bpp and MTLPixelFormat.pvrtc_rgb_2bpp_srgb

This method doesn't change the original texture image data in any way, but it may drastically change how the data is interpreted. For example, given a texture with the MTLPixelFormat.rg16Uint pixel format that contains image data for Red 0xFFFE and Green 0x0001, this method would reinterpret that data in an MTLPixelFormat.r32Uint format as Red 0x0001FFFE.

Some format reinterpretations are supported but may not be useful. For example, this method considers the 32-bit packed color formats MTLPixelFormatA2BGR10Uint and MTLPixelFormatB10GR11Float to be compatible, but it's unlikely that the same data can be interpreted by both formats in a meaningful way.