wgpu::Texture -> wgpu::TextureView ?

[zeroexcuses]

Repost of https://users.rust-lang.org/t/wgpu-texture-wgpu-textureview/92149

https://docs.rs/wgpu/latest/src/wgpu/lib.rs.html#233-239

I have an wgpu::Texture; I want a wgpu::TextureView

Now, I see this function pub fn create_view(&self, desc: &TextureViewDescriptor<'_>) -> TextureView but I do not have a TextureViewDescriptor

Now, wgpu::Texture itself has a TextureViewDescriptor but it is not public

pub struct Texture {
    context: Arc<C>,
    id: ObjectId,
    data: Box<Data>,
    owned: bool,
    descriptor: TextureDescriptor<'static>,
}

Is there anyway to do wgpu::Texture -> wgpu::TextureView without forking the wgpu package ? I feel like I am missing something very very obvious.

[cwfitzgerald]

Hello!

You're slightly misreading the types - a Texture contains it's own descriptor not a view descriptor.

You can call create_view, TextureViewDescriptor is a fully public struct that you can construct yourself.

[kpreid]

Also note that in most cases you don't need to specify any of the fields of the TextureViewDescriptor, so a call can be just

texture.create_view(&Default::default())

The TextureViewDescriptor fields are for when you want a view of some part of the texture, like rendering to a specific mip level of a texture, or if you want to provide a label.

[cwfitzgerald]

Closing as this was also answered on the rust user forum.