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Get started with textures

Learn about texture types, GPU texture formats, and mipmaps.
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Learn about texture types, GPU texture formats, and mipmaps.

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Introduction to texturesLearn about how textures provide the fine detail of a surface, and how different features use textures.
Texture typesLearn about albedo textures, alpha maps, normal maps, detail maps, and terrain heightmaps.
Texture formats in memoryResources for choosing and using texture compression formats on the GPU.
MipmapsUnderstand how mipmaps store progressively smaller and lower resolution versions of a single texture.