C Specification

Possible values of flags in the instance modifying the behavior of that instance are:

// Provided by VK_KHR_acceleration_structure
typedef enum VkGeometryInstanceFlagBitsKHR {
    VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_TRIANGLE_FACING_CULL_DISABLE_BIT_KHR = 0x00000001,
    VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_TRIANGLE_FLIP_FACING_BIT_KHR = 0x00000002,
    VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_FORCE_OPAQUE_BIT_KHR = 0x00000004,
    VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_FORCE_NO_OPAQUE_BIT_KHR = 0x00000008,
  // Provided by VK_EXT_opacity_micromap
    VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_FORCE_OPACITY_MICROMAP_2_STATE_EXT = 0x00000010,
  // Provided by VK_EXT_opacity_micromap
    VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_DISABLE_OPACITY_MICROMAPS_EXT = 0x00000020,
    VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_TRIANGLE_FRONT_COUNTERCLOCKWISE_BIT_KHR = VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_TRIANGLE_FLIP_FACING_BIT_KHR,
  // Provided by VK_NV_ray_tracing
    VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_TRIANGLE_CULL_DISABLE_BIT_NV = VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_TRIANGLE_FACING_CULL_DISABLE_BIT_KHR,
  // Provided by VK_NV_ray_tracing
    VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_TRIANGLE_FRONT_COUNTERCLOCKWISE_BIT_NV = VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_TRIANGLE_FRONT_COUNTERCLOCKWISE_BIT_KHR,
  // Provided by VK_NV_ray_tracing
    VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_FORCE_OPAQUE_BIT_NV = VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_FORCE_OPAQUE_BIT_KHR,
  // Provided by VK_NV_ray_tracing
    VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_FORCE_NO_OPAQUE_BIT_NV = VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_FORCE_NO_OPAQUE_BIT_KHR,
} VkGeometryInstanceFlagBitsKHR;

or the equivalent

// Provided by VK_NV_ray_tracing
typedef VkGeometryInstanceFlagBitsKHR VkGeometryInstanceFlagBitsNV;

Description

  • VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_TRIANGLE_FACING_CULL_DISABLE_BIT_KHR disables face culling for this instance.

  • VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_TRIANGLE_FLIP_FACING_BIT_KHR indicates that the facing determination for geometry in this instance is inverted. Because the facing is determined in object space, an instance transform does not change the winding, but a geometry transform does.

  • VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_FORCE_OPAQUE_BIT_KHR causes this instance to act as though VK_GEOMETRY_OPAQUE_BIT_KHR were specified on all geometries referenced by this instance. This behavior can be overridden by the SPIR-V NoOpaqueKHR ray flag.

  • VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_FORCE_NO_OPAQUE_BIT_KHR causes this instance to act as though VK_GEOMETRY_OPAQUE_BIT_KHR were not specified on all geometries referenced by this instance. This behavior can be overridden by the SPIR-V OpaqueKHR ray flag.

VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_FORCE_NO_OPAQUE_BIT_KHR and VK_GEOMETRY_INSTANCE_FORCE_OPAQUE_BIT_KHR must not be used in the same flag.

See Also

VK_KHR_acceleration_structure, VK_NV_ray_tracing, VkGeometryInstanceFlagsKHR

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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