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WebGLSampler

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨September 2021⁩.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The WebGLSampler interface is part of the WebGL 2 API and stores sampling parameters for WebGLTexture access inside of a shader.

WebGLObject WebGLSampler

When working with WebGLSampler objects, the following methods of the WebGL2RenderingContext are useful:

Examples

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Creating a WebGLSampler object

in this example, gl must be a WebGL2RenderingContext. WebGLSampler objects are not available in WebGL 1.

const sampler = gl.createSampler();

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
WebGLSampler 56 79 51 43 15 58 51 43 15 7.0 58 15

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLSampler