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WebGPU: render to slice of 3D texture

Category

Graphics

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 125)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Functionality added to the WebGPU/WGSL spec after its first shipment in a browser. Adds support using a render pass to render to slices of 3D textures in addition to rendering to 2D textures. This is used in graphical algorithm to do voxelization between others.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/#dom-gpurenderpasscolorattachment-depthslice
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: Closed Without a Position — Note that this is a blanket approval from Safari for additions to the v1 WebGPU/WGSL spec.
• Web developers: Positive — This feature has been requested by developers multiple times.
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/dawn/issues/detail?id=1020

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