Registered Extension Number

218

Revision

1

Ratification Status

Not ratified

Extension and Version Dependencies

VK_KHR_surface

Contact

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2018-10-01

IP Status

No known IP claims.

Contributors

  • Dzmitry Malyshau, Mozilla Corp.

Description

The VK_EXT_metal_surface extension is an instance extension. It provides a mechanism to create a VkSurfaceKHR object (defined by the VK_KHR_surface extension) from CAMetalLayer, which is the native rendering surface of Apple’s Metal framework.

New Base Types

New Commands

New Structures

New Bitmasks

New Enum Constants

  • VK_EXT_METAL_SURFACE_EXTENSION_NAME

  • VK_EXT_METAL_SURFACE_SPEC_VERSION

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_METAL_SURFACE_CREATE_INFO_EXT

Version History

  • Revision 1, 2018-10-01 (Dzmitry Malyshau)

    • Initial version

See Also

No cross-references are available

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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Copyright

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