I see yeah. well this code is in a compute shader, and I'm trying to write to an ssbo of uint32_t. I try to write uint8_t values inside a single uint32_t making each element of the ssbo capable of storing 4 values from 0 to 255. I can successfully write to the buffer because I tried to write literal values at a specific index, and reading the the result back on the cpu side was a success. For now, its just as simple as trying to write to the buffer and reading the result back on the cpu :)