Heightmap in Shader not working

Question

I'm trying to implement GPU-based geometry clipmapping and have problems to apply a simple heightmap to my terrain. For the heightmap I use a simple texture with the surface format "single". I've taken the texture from Catalinz's XNA blog.

What I'm trying to do is just getting the single float value from the texture at the vertex world coordinate and apply the value to the Y-Value of the Vertex. I'm applying the heightmap through the shader, because there is no fixed grid in-code it could be applied on. What I've tried so far was using the tex2Dlod function, but there seems to be no output or an output of 0. The Direct X vertex shader's code looks like this:

float4 worldPos = mul(float4(pos.x,0.0f,pos.y, 1.0f), worldMatrix);
float elevation = tex2Dlod(HeightmapSampler, float4(worldPos.x, worldPos.z,0,0));
worldPos.y = elevation * 128;

Where HeightmapSampler is a point-mirror sampler of the heightmap texture. Here is the output, I actually get no elevation:

And here's the heightmap I'm using:

Answer 1

What's the resolution of your terrain mesh? You're sampling the texture directly with the worldPos x & z vals: if you have a vertex every 1 unit, you'd get the same texture value each time as it's only the fractional part that's used. See if dividing the vals has any difference, e.g.:

float elevation = tex2Dlod(HeightmapSampler, float4(worldPos.x*0.001, worldPos.z*0.001,0,0));