C Specification

To create an image view, call:

// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
VkResult vkCreateImageView(
    VkDevice                                    device,
    const VkImageViewCreateInfo*                pCreateInfo,
    const VkAllocationCallbacks*                pAllocator,
    VkImageView*                                pView);

Parameters

  • device is the logical device that creates the image view.

  • pCreateInfo is a pointer to a VkImageViewCreateInfo structure containing parameters to be used to create the image view.

  • pAllocator controls host memory allocation as described in the Memory Allocation chapter.

  • pView is a pointer to a VkImageView handle in which the resulting image view object is returned.

Description

If VkPhysicalDeviceVulkanSC10Properties::deviceNoDynamicHostAllocations is VK_TRUE, vkCreateImageView must not return VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY.

Valid Usage

  • VUID-vkCreateImageView-device-09667
    device must support at least one queue family with one of the VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT, or VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT capabilities

  • VUID-vkCreateImageView-image-09179
    VkImageViewCreateInfo::image must have been created from device

  • VUID-vkCreateImageView-device-05068
    The number of image views currently allocated from device plus 1 must be less than or equal to the total number of image views requested via VkDeviceObjectReservationCreateInfo::imageViewRequestCount specified when device was created

  • VUID-vkCreateImageView-subresourceRange-05063
    If VkImageViewCreateInfo::subresourceRange.layerCount is not VK_REMAINING_ARRAY_LAYERS and is greater than 1, or if VkImageViewCreateInfo::subresourceRange.layerCount is VK_REMAINING_ARRAY_LAYERS and the remaining number of layers in VkImageViewCreateInfo::image is greater than 1, the number of image views with more than one array layer currently allocated from device plus 1 must be less than or equal to the total number of image views requested via VkDeviceObjectReservationCreateInfo::layeredImageViewRequestCount specified when device was created

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-vkCreateImageView-device-parameter
    device must be a valid VkDevice handle

  • VUID-vkCreateImageView-pCreateInfo-parameter
    pCreateInfo must be a valid pointer to a valid VkImageViewCreateInfo structure

  • VUID-vkCreateImageView-pAllocator-null
    pAllocator must be NULL

  • VUID-vkCreateImageView-pView-parameter
    pView must be a valid pointer to a VkImageView handle

  • VUID-vkCreateImageView-device-queuecount
    The device must have been created with at least 1 queue

Return Codes
On success, this command returns

  • VK_SUCCESS

On failure, this command returns

  • VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY

  • VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY

See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkAllocationCallbacks, VkDevice, VkImageView, VkImageViewCreateInfo

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.

Copyright

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