C Specification
Images are specialized resources that have multi-dimensional access, as outlined in the https://registry.khronos.org/vulkansc/specs/1.0-extensions/html/vkspec.html#images chapter. Images can be used for various purposes, such as rendering attachments, for copy operations, or accessed through shaders via resource descriptors.
Images are represented by VkImage handles:
// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE(VkImage)See Also
VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE, VK_VERSION_1_0, VkBindImageMemoryInfo, VkBlitImageInfo2, VkCopyBufferToImageInfo2, VkCopyImageInfo2, VkCopyImageToBufferInfo2, VkImageMemoryBarrier, VkImageMemoryBarrier2, VkImageMemoryRequirementsInfo2, VkImageViewCreateInfo, VkMemoryDedicatedAllocateInfo, VkResolveImageInfo2, vkBindImageMemory, vkCmdBlitImage, vkCmdClearColorImage, vkCmdClearDepthStencilImage, vkCmdCopyBufferToImage, vkCmdCopyImage, vkCmdCopyImageToBuffer, vkCmdResolveImage, vkCreateImage, vkDestroyImage, vkGetImageDrmFormatModifierPropertiesEXT, vkGetImageMemoryRequirements, vkGetImageSubresourceLayout, vkGetSwapchainImagesKHR
Document Notes
For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.
This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.