C Specification

To create ray tracing pipelines, call:

// Provided by VK_NV_ray_tracing
VkResult vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV(
    VkDevice                                    device,
    VkPipelineCache                             pipelineCache,
    uint32_t                                    createInfoCount,
    const VkRayTracingPipelineCreateInfoNV*     pCreateInfos,
    const VkAllocationCallbacks*                pAllocator,
    VkPipeline*                                 pPipelines);

Parameters

  • device is the logical device that creates the ray tracing pipelines.

  • pipelineCache is either VK_NULL_HANDLE, indicating that pipeline caching is disabled, or the handle of a valid pipeline cache object, in which case use of that cache is enabled for the duration of the command.

  • createInfoCount is the length of the pCreateInfos and pPipelines arrays.

  • pCreateInfos is a pointer to an array of VkRayTracingPipelineCreateInfoNV structures.

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

  • pPipelines is a pointer to an array in which the resulting ray tracing pipeline objects are returned.

Description

Valid Usage

  • VUID-vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV-flags-03415
    If the flags member of any element of pCreateInfos contains the VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DERIVATIVE_BIT flag, and the basePipelineIndex member of that same element is not -1, basePipelineIndex must be less than the index into pCreateInfos that corresponds to that element

  • VUID-vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV-flags-03416
    If the flags member of any element of pCreateInfos contains the VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DERIVATIVE_BIT flag, the base pipeline must have been created with the VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_ALLOW_DERIVATIVES_BIT flag set

  • VUID-vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV-flags-03816
    flags must not contain the VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DISPATCH_BASE flag

  • VUID-vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV-pipelineCache-02903
    If pipelineCache was created with VK_PIPELINE_CACHE_CREATE_EXTERNALLY_SYNCHRONIZED_BIT, host access to pipelineCache must be externally synchronized

Valid Usage (Implicit)

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

  • VUID-vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV-pipelineCache-parameter
    If pipelineCache is not VK_NULL_HANDLE, pipelineCache must be a valid VkPipelineCache handle

  • VUID-vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV-pCreateInfos-parameter
    pCreateInfos must be a valid pointer to an array of createInfoCount valid VkRayTracingPipelineCreateInfoNV structures

  • VUID-vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV-pAllocator-parameter
    If pAllocator is not NULL, pAllocator must be a valid pointer to a valid VkAllocationCallbacks structure

  • VUID-vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV-pPipelines-parameter
    pPipelines must be a valid pointer to an array of createInfoCount VkPipeline handles

  • VUID-vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV-createInfoCount-arraylength
    createInfoCount must be greater than 0

  • VUID-vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV-pipelineCache-parent
    If pipelineCache is a valid handle, it must have been created, allocated, or retrieved from device

Return Codes
On success, this command returns

  • VK_SUCCESS

  • VK_PIPELINE_COMPILE_REQUIRED_EXT

On failure, this command returns

  • VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY

  • VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY

  • VK_ERROR_INVALID_SHADER_NV

See Also

VK_NV_ray_tracing, VkAllocationCallbacks, VkDevice, VkPipeline, VkPipelineCache, VkRayTracingPipelineCreateInfoNV

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

Copyright 2014-2023 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0