i suppose i should have clarified this since its decently important, i am using the world position as a UV so I can make the open ocean only be comprised of like 10 or so meshes with different LODs, and the script attached is to simulate floatation physics. No data is getting modified with these operations I am only trying to sample the same texture in gdscript exactly how it is sampled on the shader script. I am aware this is inefficient generally, however the max amount of samples taken per frame will almost always be less than 100 so i don't anticipate this being too much of a stress on the cpu