C Specification
Image objects are not directly accessed by pipeline shaders for reading or writing image data. Instead, image views representing contiguous ranges of the image subresources and containing additional metadata are used for that purpose. Views must be created on images of compatible types, and must represent a valid subset of image subresources.
Image views are represented by VkImageView handles:
// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE(VkImageView)See Also
VK_VERSION_1_0, VkDescriptorImageInfo, VkExportMetalTextureInfoEXT, VkFramebufferCreateInfo, VkImageViewCaptureDescriptorDataInfoEXT, VkImageViewHandleInfoNVX, VkRenderPassAttachmentBeginInfo, VkRenderingAttachmentInfo, VkRenderingFragmentDensityMapAttachmentInfoEXT, VkRenderingFragmentShadingRateAttachmentInfoKHR, VkVideoPictureResourceInfoKHR, vkBindOpticalFlowSessionImageNV, vkCmdBindInvocationMaskHUAWEI, vkCmdBindShadingRateImageNV, vkCreateImageView, vkDestroyImageView, vkGetImageViewAddressNVX
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.