Accessing Post Process Depth Buffer

[jdrosdeck]

I'm trying to generate a camera view showing the depth buffer but it doesn't seem to be working as expected. The camera looks like its displaying grey scale. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is my post process logic

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#include "Quad.sh" Texture2D<float> srcDepth; float4 PsDepthBuffer(PsQuad vert) : SV_Target { // Get the texture dimemsions. uint2 uDDim; srcDepth.GetDimensions(uDDim.x,uDDim.y); int3 iDepthCoord = int3(uDDim.x * vert.texcoord.x, uDDim.y * vert.texcoord.y, 0); // Use these new coordinates to look up the color in the texture float depth = srcDepth.Load(iDepthCoord); return float4(depth, depth, depth, 1.0f); }

And my corresponding XML File

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SimBase.Document Type="AceXML" version="1,0"> <PostProcessEffects.PostProcessDefinition> <EffectName>RawDepthShader</EffectName> <ShaderFileName>RawDepthShader.psh</ShaderFileName> <ShaderEntryPoint>PsDepthBuffer</ShaderEntryPoint> <ColorRequest>FALSE</ColorRequest> <DepthRequest>TRUE</DepthRequest> </PostProcessEffects.PostProcessDefinition> </SimBase.Document>

[JB3DG]

That's essentially what a depth buffer is. Monotone. Is there something else you are expecting?

[jdrosdeck]

I was expecting items closer to the camera to be near black, and items far away to be white, with most of the scene being white.

[jdrosdeck]

Here's the output I'm getting
https://imgur.com/SJcPD6F

Here's the type of image that I would expect to get

https://imgur.com/FnUp7PH

[JB3DG]

I don't know if what you are trying to do is possible via the post process system. I can only access the depth buffer via the PDK Texture Plugin system in a C++ module.