Sets a read-only image (texture) resource that can be accessed by the specified compute shader.
You can bind up to 64 different image and buffer resources for read access by a compute shader. These will use registers t0 through t63.
Take note that textures and buffers share the same register slots, thus setting a buffer to slot 1 followed by setting a texture to the same slot will overwrite the previously set buffer.
You can unbind textures by specifying nullptr as the image argument; this is neccessary if the same image is bound by the same shader as a RW image since a resource cannot simultaneously be bound for
read-only and write access (you can read from the read/write resource as the name suggests though).
Read-only images are declared like so in HLSL:
Texture2D TextureName : register(t?)
where ? ranges between 0 and 63.

DX11 SET COMPUTE SHADER IMAGE shader, slot, image

shader

Dword
The compute shader to set the image resource for.

slot

Dword
The shader register slot to bind the image to. The valid range is 0 through 63. Take note that buffer resources use the same register slots.

image

Dword
The image (texture) to bind to the specified slot of the given compute shader. Set to nullptr to remove a previously bound texture / buffer from the given slot.

This function does not return a value.

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