What is the difference between a Texture Object / Texture Object Parameter vs a Texture Sampler and sampler parameter??

[kurylo3d]

What is the difference between a Texture Object / Texture Object Parameter vs a Texture Sampler and sampler parameter??

Is there a memory benefit? A performance benefit? Which should i use more often?

[MostHost_LA]

Its all the same until you plug a UV into it - at that point the image is sampled and stored in memory for usage.

You can have 1 texture used 10 times or 10 different textures, the cost ends up being about the same if the 1 texture is sampled 10 different times with 10 different UVs anyway.

The only real benefit is that a te texture objext can be made a parameter and each instance can swap that texture out - its a good way to make master materials which you can re-use…