C Specification

The VkImageCreateInfo structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
typedef struct VkImageCreateInfo {
    VkStructureType          sType;
    const void*              pNext;
    VkImageCreateFlags       flags;
    VkImageType              imageType;
    VkFormat                 format;
    VkExtent3D               extent;
    uint32_t                 mipLevels;
    uint32_t                 arrayLayers;
    VkSampleCountFlagBits    samples;
    VkImageTiling            tiling;
    VkImageUsageFlags        usage;
    VkSharingMode            sharingMode;
    uint32_t                 queueFamilyIndexCount;
    const uint32_t*          pQueueFamilyIndices;
    VkImageLayout            initialLayout;
} VkImageCreateInfo;

Members

  • sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

  • pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

  • flags is a bitmask of VkImageCreateFlagBits describing additional parameters of the image.

  • imageType is a VkImageType value specifying the basic dimensionality of the image. Layers in array textures do not count as a dimension for the purposes of the image type.

  • format is a VkFormat describing the format and type of the texel blocks that will be contained in the image.

  • extent is a VkExtent3D describing the number of data elements in each dimension of the base level.

  • mipLevels describes the number of levels of detail available for minified sampling of the image.

  • arrayLayers is the number of layers in the image.

  • samples is a VkSampleCountFlagBits value specifying the number of samples per texel.

  • tiling is a VkImageTiling value specifying the tiling arrangement of the texel blocks in memory.

  • usage is a bitmask of VkImageUsageFlagBits describing the intended usage of the image.

  • sharingMode is a VkSharingMode value specifying the sharing mode of the image when it will be accessed by multiple queue families.

  • queueFamilyIndexCount is the number of entries in the pQueueFamilyIndices array.

  • pQueueFamilyIndices is a pointer to an array of queue families that will access this image. It is ignored if sharingMode is not VK_SHARING_MODE_CONCURRENT.

  • initialLayout is a VkImageLayout value specifying the initial VkImageLayout of all image subresources of the image. See Image Layouts.

Description

Images created with tiling equal to VK_IMAGE_TILING_LINEAR have further restrictions on their limits and capabilities compared to images created with tiling equal to VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL. Creation of images with tiling VK_IMAGE_TILING_LINEAR may not be supported unless other parameters meet all of the constraints:

  • imageType is VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D

  • format is not a depth/stencil format

  • mipLevels is 1

  • arrayLayers is 1

  • samples is VK_SAMPLE_COUNT_1_BIT

  • usage only includes VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT and/or VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT

Images created with one of the formats that require a sampler Y′CBCR conversion, have further restrictions on their limits and capabilities compared to images created with other formats. Creation of images with a format requiring Y′CBCR conversion may not be supported unless other parameters meet all of the constraints:

Implementations may support additional limits and capabilities beyond those listed above.

To determine the set of valid usage bits for a given format, call vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties.

If the size of the resultant image would exceed maxResourceSize, then vkCreateImage must fail and return VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY. This failure may occur even when all image creation parameters satisfy their valid usage requirements.

Note

For images created without VK_IMAGE_CREATE_EXTENDED_USAGE_BIT a usage bit is valid if it is supported for the format the image is created with.

For images created with VK_IMAGE_CREATE_EXTENDED_USAGE_BIT a usage bit is valid if it is supported for at least one of the formats a VkImageView created from the image can have (see Image Views for more detail).

Image Creation Limits

Valid values for some image creation parameters are limited by a numerical upper bound or by inclusion in a bitset. For example, VkImageCreateInfo::arrayLayers is limited by imageCreateMaxArrayLayers, defined below; and VkImageCreateInfo::samples is limited by imageCreateSampleCounts, also defined below.

Several limiting values are defined below, as well as assisting values from which the limiting values are derived. The limiting values are referenced by the relevant valid usage statements of VkImageCreateInfo.

Valid Usage
  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251
    Each of the following values (as described in Image Creation Limits) must not be undefined : imageCreateMaxMipLevels, imageCreateMaxArrayLayers, imageCreateMaxExtent, and imageCreateSampleCounts

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-sharingMode-00941
    If sharingMode is VK_SHARING_MODE_CONCURRENT, pQueueFamilyIndices must be a valid pointer to an array of queueFamilyIndexCount uint32_t values

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-sharingMode-00942
    If sharingMode is VK_SHARING_MODE_CONCURRENT, queueFamilyIndexCount must be greater than 1

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-sharingMode-01420
    If sharingMode is VK_SHARING_MODE_CONCURRENT, each element of pQueueFamilyIndices must be unique and must be less than pQueueFamilyPropertyCount returned by either vkGetPhysicalDeviceQueueFamilyProperties or vkGetPhysicalDeviceQueueFamilyProperties2 for the physicalDevice that was used to create device

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-00943
    format must not be VK_FORMAT_UNDEFINED

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-extent-00944
    extent.width must be greater than 0

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-extent-00945
    extent.height must be greater than 0

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-extent-00946
    extent.depth must be greater than 0

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-mipLevels-00947
    mipLevels must be greater than 0

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-arrayLayers-00948
    arrayLayers must be greater than 0

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-flags-00949
    If flags contains VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT, imageType must be VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-flags-08865
    If flags contains VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT, extent.width and extent.height must be equal

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-flags-08866
    If flags contains VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT, arrayLayers must be greater than or equal to 6

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-flags-00950
    If flags contains VK_IMAGE_CREATE_2D_ARRAY_COMPATIBLE_BIT, imageType must be VK_IMAGE_TYPE_3D

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-flags-09403
    If flags contains VK_IMAGE_CREATE_2D_ARRAY_COMPATIBLE_BIT, flags must not include VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_ALIASED_BIT, VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT, or VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-extent-02252
    extent.width must be less than or equal to imageCreateMaxExtent.width (as defined in Image Creation Limits)

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-extent-02253
    extent.height must be less than or equal to imageCreateMaxExtent.height (as defined in Image Creation Limits)

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-extent-02254
    extent.depth must be less than or equal to imageCreateMaxExtent.depth (as defined in Image Creation Limits)

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageType-00956
    If imageType is VK_IMAGE_TYPE_1D, both extent.height and extent.depth must be 1

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageType-00957
    If imageType is VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D, extent.depth must be 1

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-mipLevels-00958
    mipLevels must be less than or equal to the number of levels in the complete mipmap chain based on extent.width, extent.height, and extent.depth

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-mipLevels-02255
    mipLevels must be less than or equal to imageCreateMaxMipLevels (as defined in Image Creation Limits)

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-arrayLayers-02256
    arrayLayers must be less than or equal to imageCreateMaxArrayLayers (as defined in Image Creation Limits)

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageType-00961
    If imageType is VK_IMAGE_TYPE_3D, arrayLayers must be 1

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-samples-02257
    If samples is not VK_SAMPLE_COUNT_1_BIT, then imageType must be VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D, flags must not contain VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT, mipLevels must be equal to 1, and imageCreateMaybeLinear (as defined in Image Creation Limits) must be VK_FALSE,

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-usage-00963
    If usage includes VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSIENT_ATTACHMENT_BIT, then bits other than VK_IMAGE_USAGE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_BIT, VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT, and VK_IMAGE_USAGE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT_BIT must not be set

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-usage-00964
    If usage includes VK_IMAGE_USAGE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_BIT, VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT, VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSIENT_ATTACHMENT_BIT, or VK_IMAGE_USAGE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT_BIT, extent.width must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxFramebufferWidth

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-usage-00965
    If usage includes VK_IMAGE_USAGE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_BIT, VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT, VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSIENT_ATTACHMENT_BIT, or VK_IMAGE_USAGE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT_BIT, extent.height must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxFramebufferHeight

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-usage-00966
    If usage includes VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSIENT_ATTACHMENT_BIT, usage must also contain at least one of VK_IMAGE_USAGE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_BIT, VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT, or VK_IMAGE_USAGE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-samples-02258
    samples must be a bit value that is set in imageCreateSampleCounts (as defined in Image Creation Limits)

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-usage-00968
    If the shaderStorageImageMultisample feature is not enabled, and usage contains VK_IMAGE_USAGE_STORAGE_BIT, samples must be VK_SAMPLE_COUNT_1_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-flags-05062
    flags must not contain VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT, VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT, VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_ALIASED_BIT, or VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPLIT_INSTANCE_BIND_REGIONS_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-flags-01890
    If the protectedMemory feature is not enabled, flags must not contain VK_IMAGE_CREATE_PROTECTED_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-pNext-00990
    If the pNext chain includes a VkExternalMemoryImageCreateInfo structure, its handleTypes member must only contain bits that are also in VkExternalImageFormatProperties::externalMemoryProperties.compatibleHandleTypes, as returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2 with format, imageType, tiling, usage, and flags equal to those in this structure, and with a VkPhysicalDeviceExternalImageFormatInfo structure included in the pNext chain, with a handleType equal to any one of the handle types specified in VkExternalMemoryImageCreateInfo::handleTypes

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-flags-01572
    If flags contains VK_IMAGE_CREATE_BLOCK_TEXEL_VIEW_COMPATIBLE_BIT, then format must be a compressed image format

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-flags-01573
    If flags contains VK_IMAGE_CREATE_BLOCK_TEXEL_VIEW_COMPATIBLE_BIT, then flags must also contain VK_IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-initialLayout-00993
    initialLayout must be VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_UNDEFINED or VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PREINITIALIZED

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-pNext-01443
    If the pNext chain includes a VkExternalMemoryImageCreateInfo or VkExternalMemoryImageCreateInfoNV structure whose handleTypes member is not 0, initialLayout must be VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_UNDEFINED

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-06410
    If the image format is one of the formats that require a sampler Y′CBCR conversion, mipLevels must be 1

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-06411
    If the image format is one of the formats that require a sampler Y′CBCR conversion, samples must be VK_SAMPLE_COUNT_1_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-06412
    If the image format is one of the formats that require a sampler Y′CBCR conversion, imageType must be VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateFormatFeatures-02260
    If format is a multi-planar format, and if imageCreateFormatFeatures (as defined in Image Creation Limits) does not contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_DISJOINT_BIT, then flags must not contain VK_IMAGE_CREATE_DISJOINT_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-01577
    If format is not a multi-planar format, and flags does not include VK_IMAGE_CREATE_ALIAS_BIT, flags must not contain VK_IMAGE_CREATE_DISJOINT_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-04712
    If format has a _422 or _420 suffix, width must be a multiple of 2

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-04713
    If format has a _420 suffix, height must be a multiple of 2

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-tiling-02261
    If tiling is VK_IMAGE_TILING_DRM_FORMAT_MODIFIER_EXT, then the pNext chain must include exactly one of VkImageDrmFormatModifierListCreateInfoEXT or VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT structures

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-pNext-02262
    If the pNext chain includes a VkImageDrmFormatModifierListCreateInfoEXT or VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT structure, then tiling must be VK_IMAGE_TILING_DRM_FORMAT_MODIFIER_EXT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-tiling-02353
    If tiling is VK_IMAGE_TILING_DRM_FORMAT_MODIFIER_EXT and flags contains VK_IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT, then the pNext chain must include a VkImageFormatListCreateInfo structure with non-zero viewFormatCount

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-flags-01533
    If flags contains VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SAMPLE_LOCATIONS_COMPATIBLE_DEPTH_BIT_EXT format must be a depth or depth/stencil format

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-pNext-08951
    If the pNext chain includes a VkExternalMemoryImageCreateInfo structure whose handleTypes member includes VK_EXTERNAL_MEMORY_HANDLE_TYPE_SCREEN_BUFFER_BIT_QNX, imageType must be VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-pNext-08952
    If the pNext chain includes a VkExternalMemoryImageCreateInfo structure whose handleTypes member includes VK_EXTERNAL_MEMORY_HANDLE_TYPE_SCREEN_BUFFER_BIT_QNX, mipLevels must either be 1 or equal to the number of levels in the complete mipmap chain based on extent.width, extent.height, and extent.depth

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-pNext-08953
    If the pNext chain includes a VkExternalFormatQNX structure whose externalFormat member is not 0, flags must not include VK_IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-pNext-08954
    If the pNext chain includes a VkExternalFormatQNX structure whose externalFormat member is not 0, usage must not include any usages except VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-pNext-08955
    If the pNext chain includes a VkExternalFormatQNX structure whose externalFormat member is not 0, tiling must be VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-02795
    If format is a depth-stencil format, usage includes VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT, and the pNext chain includes a VkImageStencilUsageCreateInfo structure, then its VkImageStencilUsageCreateInfo::stencilUsage member must also include VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-02796
    If format is a depth-stencil format, usage does not include VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT, and the pNext chain includes a VkImageStencilUsageCreateInfo structure, then its VkImageStencilUsageCreateInfo::stencilUsage member must also not include VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-02797
    If format is a depth-stencil format, usage includes VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSIENT_ATTACHMENT_BIT, and the pNext chain includes a VkImageStencilUsageCreateInfo structure, then its VkImageStencilUsageCreateInfo::stencilUsage member must also include VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSIENT_ATTACHMENT_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-02798
    If format is a depth-stencil format, usage does not include VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSIENT_ATTACHMENT_BIT, and the pNext chain includes a VkImageStencilUsageCreateInfo structure, then its VkImageStencilUsageCreateInfo::stencilUsage member must also not include VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSIENT_ATTACHMENT_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-Format-02536
    If Format is a depth-stencil format and the pNext chain includes a VkImageStencilUsageCreateInfo structure with its stencilUsage member including VK_IMAGE_USAGE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT_BIT, extent.width must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxFramebufferWidth

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-02537
    If format is a depth-stencil format and the pNext chain includes a VkImageStencilUsageCreateInfo structure with its stencilUsage member including VK_IMAGE_USAGE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT_BIT, extent.height must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxFramebufferHeight

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-format-02538
    If the shaderStorageImageMultisample feature is not enabled, format is a depth-stencil format and the pNext chain includes a VkImageStencilUsageCreateInfo structure with its stencilUsage including VK_IMAGE_USAGE_STORAGE_BIT, samples must be VK_SAMPLE_COUNT_1_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageType-02082
    If usage includes VK_IMAGE_USAGE_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_ATTACHMENT_BIT_KHR, imageType must be VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-samples-02083
    If usage includes VK_IMAGE_USAGE_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_ATTACHMENT_BIT_KHR, samples must be VK_SAMPLE_COUNT_1_BIT

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-pNext-06722
    If a VkImageFormatListCreateInfo structure was included in the pNext chain and VkImageFormatListCreateInfo::viewFormatCount is not zero, then each format in VkImageFormatListCreateInfo::pViewFormats must either be compatible with the format as described in the compatibility table or, if flags contains VK_IMAGE_CREATE_BLOCK_TEXEL_VIEW_COMPATIBLE_BIT, be an uncompressed format that is size-compatible with format

  • VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-flags-04738
    If flags does not contain VK_IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT and the pNext chain includes a VkImageFormatListCreateInfo structure, then VkImageFormatListCreateInfo::viewFormatCount must be 0 or 1

Valid Usage (Implicit)

See Also

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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