A texture sampler is implemented using a shader language. The shader compiler is used to compile the texture sampler to a target machine based on sampler state, sampler operation, and other static factors input values provided to the texture sampler. The shaders such as a vertex shader, geometry shader, pixel shader, hull shader, domain shader, and a compute shader may call one or more texture samplers while the shaders are invoked. The one or more texture samplers, which are a piece of software code may generate texture samples from the texture data and provide such texture samples to the shaders. The shaders generate shading effects on graphics elements using a texture samples. The graphics elements along with the shading effects are then rendered on a display device.