Can you save shader buffer or render textures as an asset?

Unity Engine
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I have an editor script that creates a shader buffer and a render texture, it passes them to a compute shader which does work on them.

Afterwards my buffer and render texture is filled with data, but i want to save this in my assets since they won’t change at run time, i just wanted to prebake the data.

Is it possible to save compute buffers and render textures as assets ? If so how do you do it ?

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Hi! Please have a look at this post. The trick for 2d textures is to use ReadPixels to transfer your pixels from the RenderTexture to a Texture2D. This Texture2D can then be saved as an asset.