---
title: MTLTextureReferenceType
framework: metal
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: metal/mtltexturereferencetype
---

# MTLTextureReferenceType

A description of a texture.

## Declaration

```swift
class MTLTextureReferenceType
```

## Topics

### Describing the texture

- [textureType](metal/mtltexturereferencetype/texturetype.md)
- [textureDataType](metal/mtltexturereferencetype/texturedatatype.md)
- [access](metal/mtltexturereferencetype/access.md)
- [isDepthTexture](metal/mtltexturereferencetype/isdepthtexture.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [MTLType](metal/mtltype.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)

## See Also

### Shader types

- [MTLType](metal/mtltype.md)
- [MTLDataType](metal/mtldatatype.md)
- [MTLArrayType](metal/mtlarraytype.md)
- [MTLStructType](metal/mtlstructtype.md)
- [MTLStructMember](metal/mtlstructmember.md)
- [MTLPointerType](metal/mtlpointertype.md)